Oleic Acid Exhibits Anti-Proliferative and Anti-Invasive Activities via the PTEN/AKT/mTOR Pathway in Endometrial Cancer

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  • Deng, Boer
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Kong, Weimin
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Suo, Hongyan
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Shen, Xiaochang
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Newton, Meredith A.
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Burkett, Wesley C.
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Zhao, Ziyi
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • John, Catherine
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Sun, Wenchuan
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Zhang, Xin
    • Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Fan, Yali
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Hao, Tianran
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Zhou, Chunxiao
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Bae-Jump, Victoria L.
    • Other Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • Reprogramming of fatty acid metabolism promotes cell growth and metastasis through a variety of processes that stimulate signaling molecules, energy storage, and membrane biosynthesis in endometrial cancer. Oleic acid is one of the most important monounsaturated fatty acids in the human body, which appears to have both pro- and anti-tumorigenic activities in various pre-clinical models. In this study, we evaluated the potential anti-tumor effects of oleic acid in endometrial cancer cells and the LKB1fl/flp53fl/fl mouse model of endometrial cancer. Oleic acid increased lipogenesis, inhibited cell proliferation, caused cell cycle G1 arrest, induced cellular stress and apoptosis, and suppressed invasion in endometrial cancer cells. Targeting of diacylglycerol acyltransferases 1 and 2 effectively increased the cytotoxicity of oleic acid. Moreover, oleic acid significantly increased the expression of wild-type PTEN, and knockdown of PTEN by shRNA partially reversed the anti-proliferative and anti-invasive effects of oleic acid. Inhibition of the AKT/mTOR pathway by ipatasertib effectively increased the anti-tumor activity of oleic acid in endometrial cancer cells. Oleic acid treatment (10 mg/kg, daily, oral) for four weeks significantly inhibited tumor growth by 52.1% in the LKB1fl/flp53fl/fl mice. Our findings demonstrated that oleic acid exhibited anti-tumorigenic activities, dependent on the PTEN/AKT/mTOR signaling pathway, in endometrial cancer.
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  • Cancers
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  • 15
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  • 22
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