High-fat diet fuels prostate cancer progression by rewiring the metabolome and amplifying the MYC program

Prostate cancer progression may be enhanced by a high-fat diet. Here the authors show that a diet high in saturated fats enhance the MYC-driven transcriptional program, a feature that independently predicts prostate cancer progression and death.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: David P. Labbé, Giorgia Zadra, Meng Yang, Jaime M. Reyes, Charles Y. Lin, Stefano Cacciatore, Ericka M. Ebot, Amanda L. Creech, Francesca Giunchi, Michelangelo Fiorentino, Habiba Elfandy, Sudeepa Syamala, Edward D. Karoly, Mohammed Alshalalfa, Nicholas Erho, Ashley Ross, Edward M. Schaeffer, Ewan A. Gibb, Mandeep Takhar, Robert B. Den, Jonathan Lehrer, R. Jeffrey Karnes, Stephen J. Freedland, Elai Davicioni, Daniel E. Spratt, Leigh Ellis, Jacob D. Jaffe, Anthony V. DʼAmico, Philip W. Kantoff, James E. Bradner, Lorelei A. Mucci, Jorge E. Chavarro, Massimo Loda, Myles Brown
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12298-z