Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

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

  • 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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12298-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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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.