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Table 1 Chemical inhibitors of lipid enzymes associated with cancer metastasis

From: Emerging roles of lipid metabolism in cancer metastasis

Lipid metabolism type

Enzyme

Inhibitor

Mechanism

References

Lipid anabolic metabolism

ACC

Metformin

activates AMPK, Indirect,FDA approved

Pollak 2012 [92]

AICAR

activates AMPK,Indirect

Jose et al. 2011 [93]; Swinnen et al. 2005 [94]

ACLY

LY294002

PI3K inhibitor, indirect

Migita et al. 2008 [11]

SB-204990

 

Hatzivassiliou et al. 2005 [95] ; Ros et al. 2012 [96]

FASN

Orlistat

FDA approved

Lupu and Menendez 2006 [97]

Flavonoids

Natural compound

Lupu and Menendez 2006 [97]

cerulenin

 

Yasumoto Y 2016 [25]

PAP

propranolol

lipins inhibitor

Grkovich A et al. 2006 [98]

SCD

BZ36

 

Fritz et al. 2010 [99]

A939572

 

Roongta et al. 2011 [100]

SQS

zaragozic acid A

 

Yang Y et al. 2014 [82]

Lipid catabolic metabolism

CPT1

Etomoxir

CPT1 inhibitor

Samudio et al. 2010 [66]; Pike et al. 2011 [101]

Perhexiline

CPT1 & CPT2 inhibitor

Liu PP et al. 2016 [102]

MAGL

JZL184

Irreversible catalytic site inhibitor

Nomura et al. 2010 [36]; Long JZ et al. 2009 [103]

JJKK048

Irreversible catalytic site inhibitor

Aaltonen N et al. 2013 [104]

PLA2

Varespladib methyl

sPLA2 inhibitor, direct

Karakas M et al. 2009 [105]

Ecopladib

cPLA2 inhibitor, direct

Lee KL et al. 2007 [106]

Giripladib

cPLA2 inhibitor, direct

McKew JC et al. 2006 (U.S. Patent) [107]

FKGK11

iPLA2 inhibitor

Baskakis C et al. 2008 [108]

Darapladib

Lp-PLA1 inhibitor, direct

García-García HM et al. 2012 [109]

PLD

FIPI

PLD1/2 inhibitor, direct

Su W et al. 2009 [110]

VU0359595

PLD1 inhibitor, direct

Lewis JA et al. 2009 [111]

VU0364739

PLD2 inhibitor, direct

Lavieri RR et al. 2010 [112]

  1. ACLY ATP citrate lyase, ACC acetyl-CoA carboxylase, CPT1 carnitine palmitoyl transferase 1, FASN fatty-acid synthase, MAGL monoacylglycerol lipase, PAP phosphatidic acid phosphatase, PLA 2 , Phospholipase A2, PLD Phospholipase D, SCD stearoyl-CoA desaturases, SQS Squalene synthase