Inhibiting autophagy to prevent drug resistance and improve anti-tumor therapy

JAZ Ramirez, GG Romagnoli, R Kaneno - Life sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
Cytotoxic drugs remain the first-line option for cancer therapy but the development of drug-
resistance by tumor cells represents a primary obstacle for successful chemotherapy …

Epigenetic and post-translational modifications in autophagy: biological functions and therapeutic targets

F Shu, H Xiao, QN Li, XS Ren, ZG Liu, BW Hu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Autophagy is a conserved lysosomal degradation pathway where cellular components are
dynamically degraded and re-processed to maintain physical homeostasis. However, the …

Autophagy in human health and disease: novel therapeutic opportunities

F Giampieri, S Afrin, TY Forbes-Hernandez… - Antioxidants & redox …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Significance: In eukaryotes, autophagy represents a highly evolutionary conserved process,
through which macromolecules and cytoplasmic material are degraded into lysosomes and …

Autophagy: an emerging target for cancer therapy

M Høyer-Hansen, M Jäättelä - Autophagy, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy (hereafter referred to as autophagy) is a lysosomal catabolic pathway
whereby cells recycle macromolecules and organelles. The capacity of autophagy to …

Small molecule enhancers of autophagy for neurodegenerative diseases

S Sarkar, DC Rubinsztein - Molecular BioSystems, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
Neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease,
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, prion diseases and polyglutamine disorders, including …

Enzyme-based autophagy in anti-neoplastic management: from molecular mechanisms to clinical therapeutics

A Ajoolabady, A Aghanejad, Y Bi, Y Zhang… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved self-cannibalization process commonly found in
all eukaryotic cells. Through autophagy, long-lived or damaged organelles, superfluous …

The multifaceted role of autophagy in cancer

RC Russell, KL Guan - The EMBO journal, 2022 - embopress.org
Autophagy is a cellular degradative pathway that plays diverse roles in maintaining cellular
homeostasis. Cellular stress caused by starvation, organelle damage, or proteotoxic …

Targeting autophagy in cancer

JMM Levy, CG Towers, A Thorburn - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Autophagy is a mechanism by which cellular material is delivered to lysosomes for
degradation, leading to the basal turnover of cell components and providing energy and …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy in neurodegenerative diseases: from mechanism to therapeutic approach

J Nah, J Yuan, YK Jung - Molecules and cells, 2015 - Elsevier
Autophagy is a lysosome-dependent intracellular degradation process that allows recycling
of cytoplasmic constituents into bioenergetic and biosynthetic materials for maintenance of …

Autophagy modulators in cancer therapy

K Buzun, A Gornowicz, R Lesyk, K Bielawski… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Autophagy is a process of self-degradation that plays an important role in removing
damaged proteins, organelles or cellular fragments from the cell. Under stressful conditions …