Identifiers
HUGO:HMGCS2
Maps_Modules
HMC:TUMOR_PROMOTING_INFLAMMATION
HMC:ACTIVATING_INVASION_AND_METASTASIS
Cancer Associated Fibroblasts / METABOLIC
References
PMID:27833036
CAFs secrete large amounts of ketone bodies which are then re-utilized by tumor cells for anabolic metabolism or OXPHOS like lactat
PMID:23082722
Coculture with fibroblasts overexpressing BDH1 or HMGCS2 increases the cancer cell
population. Probably via keton bodies production.
PMID:21109197
SIRT3 Deacetylates Mitochondrial 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl CoA Synthase 2 and Regulates Ketone Body Production (in vitro data)