Autophagy as a target for cancer therapy: new developments

JS Carew, KR Kelly, ST Nawrocki - Cancer management and …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Autophagy is an evolutionarily conserved lysosomal degradation pathway that eliminates
cytosolic proteins, macromolecules, organelles, and protein aggregates. Activation of …

Autophagy and cancer

KS Choi - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2012 - nature.com
Basal autophagy plays a critical role in maintaining cellular homeostasis and genomic
integrity by degrading aged or malfunctioning organelles and damaged or misfolded …

Autophagy and tumorigenesis

M Rangel, J Kong, V Bhatt, K Khayati… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Autophagy is a catabolic process that captures cellular waste and degrades them in the
lysosome. The main functions of autophagy are quality control of cytosolic proteins and …

Autophagy and cancer: Modulation of cell death pathways and cancer cell adaptations

CG Towers, D Wodetzki, A Thorburn - Journal of Cell Biology, 2019 - rupress.org
Autophagy is intricately linked with many intracellular signaling pathways, particularly
nutrient-sensing mechanisms and cell death signaling cascades. In cancer, the roles of …

Autophagy: cancer's friend or foe?

SK Bhutia, S Mukhopadhyay, N Sinha, DN Das… - Advances in cancer …, 2013 - Elsevier
The functional relevance of autophagy in tumor formation and progression remains
controversial. Autophagy can promote tumor suppression during cancer initiation and …

Challenges and therapeutic opportunities of autophagy in cancer therapy

VR Silva, SP Neves, LS Santos, RB Dias, DP Bezerra - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Autophagy is a physiological process characterized by the degradation of
the cell components through lysosomes due to stimuli/stress. In this study, we review the …

Molecular pathways: autophagy in cancer—a matter of timing and context

M Cicchini, V Karantza, B Xia - Clinical cancer research, 2015 - AACR
Autophagy is an intracellular self-digestion mechanism, by which cellular components are
sorted into double-membrane autophagosomes and delivered to lysosomes for degradation …

Targeting cancer cells through autophagy for anticancer therapy

S Turcotte, AJ Giaccia - Current opinion in cell biology, 2010 - Elsevier
Autophagy is a cellular degradation process in which portions of the cell's cytoplasm and
organelles are sequestered in a double-membrane bound vesicle called an …

Autophagy modulation in cancer: current knowledge on action and therapy

M Marinković, M Šprung, M Buljubašić… - … medicine and cellular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In the last two decades, accumulating evidence pointed to the importance of autophagy in
various human diseases. As an essential evolutionary catabolic process of cytoplasmatic …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy regulation in cancer development and therapy

EJ White, V Martin, JL Liu, SR Klein, S Piya… - American journal of …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Autophagy is a cellular process to degrade long-lived or malfunctioning proteins and
obsolete or damaged organelles. It maintains cellular homeostasis and helps cells survive …