a FASN activity in patient-derived fibroblasts (index) and age-and sex matched controls (control) estimated by incorporation of 14C-acetate into lipid fraction of fibroblasts (data are presented as mean ± SEM, n = 6, unpaired two-tailed Student’s t test *P = 0.0022). b Western Blot against HA, FASN and LDHA of cycloheximide (CHX) incubated HEK293T-cells expressing HA-tagged wild type FASN (WT) or HA-tagged patient variant R2177C-FASN (R2177C) and (c) western blot quantification (data are presented as mean ± SEM, n = 3, unpaired two-tailed Student’s t test *P = 0.0094). d Western blot against HA, FASN and ubiquitin of HA-immunoprecipitated (HA I.P.) HA-tagged wild-type FASN (WT) or HA-tagged R2177C FASN (R2177C) from overexpressing HEK293T-cells treated with (+) or without (−) the proteasome inhibitor MG132. (e) Volcano plot showing significantly differentially abundant ubiquitinylated peptides between immunoprecipitated FASN from WT (WT) and R2177C-FASN (FASNR2177) cells after incubation with MG132 (n = 4; two-way ANOVA highlighted are peptides with corresponding P-value < 0.05 and fold change difference > 1.5). f Western blot against HA, FASN, acetyl-lysine (Ac-Lys) and phospho-serine (P-Ser) of HA-tag immunoprecipitation (HA I.P.) in HEK293T cells overexpressing HA-tagged wild-type FASN (WT) or HA-tagged R2177C-FASN (R2117C) constructs. Western blots are representative picture of three independent experiments with the same result. g HA-tagged wild-type FASN (WT) or R2177C-FASN (R2177C) was overexpressed in HEK293T cells and after HA-immunoprecipitation (HA I.P.), WT and variant FASN was incubated with (+) or without (−) acetyl-CoA (Ac-CoA) in vitro for 6 h at 37 °C and western blot against HA, FASN, and acetyl-lysine (Ac-Lys) was performed. Western blots are representative picture of three independent experiments with the same result. h Western blots against HA, FASN and acetyl-lysine (Ac-Lys) of HA-tag immunoprecipitation (HA I.P.) in HEK293T cells expressing HA-tagged wild-type FASN (WT) or R2177C variant FASN (R2177) and HDAC3, a FASN deacetylase, co-treated with (+) or without (−) the proteasome inhibitor MG132. Western blots are representative picture of three independent experiments with the same result. i Ubiquitinylated FASN peptide abundance of immunoprecipitated R2177C-FASN overexpressed in HEK293T-cells in combination with a control (R2177C + empty vector) or HDAC3-vector (R2177C + HDAC3) (n = 4, data are shown as fold change vs. R2177C + empty vector). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.