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 …

Mechanisms and context underlying the role of autophagy in cancer metastasis

CM Dower, CA Wills, SM Frisch, HG Wang - Autophagy, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Macroautophagy/autophagy is a fundamental cellular degradation mechanism that
maintains cell homeostasis, regulates cell signaling, and promotes cell survival. Its role in …

Autophagy signaling in cancer and its potential as novel target to improve anticancer therapy

L Moretti, ES Yang, KW Kim, B Lu - Drug Resistance Updates, 2007 - Elsevier
Non-apoptotic forms of programmed cell death are targets for novel approaches in
anticancer therapy. Indeed, cancer cells often present with mutations in the apoptotic …

Dual role of autophagy in hallmarks of cancer

SS Singh, S Vats, AYQ Chia, TZ Tan, S Deng, MS Ong… - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Evolutionarily conserved across eukaryotic cells, macroautophagy (herein autophagy) is an
intracellular catabolic degradative process targeting damaged and superfluous cellular …

The double-edge sword of autophagy in cancer: from tumor suppression to pro-tumor activity

R Chavez-Dominguez, M Perez-Medina… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
During tumorigenesis, cancer cells are exposed to a wide variety of intrinsic and extrinsic
stresses that challenge homeostasis and growth. Cancer cells display activation of distinct …

Crosstalk between autophagy inhibitors and endosome-related secretory pathways: a challenge for autophagy-based treatment of solid cancers

M Raudenska, J Balvan, M Masarik - Molecular Cancer, 2021 - Springer
Autophagy is best known for its role in organelle and protein turnover, cell quality control,
and metabolism. The autophagic machinery has, however, also adapted to enable protein …

Autophagy: The spotlight for cellular stress responses

P Ravanan, IF Srikumar, P Talwar - Life sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Autophagy is an essential cellular mechanism which plays “housekeeping” role in normal
physiological processes including removing of long lived, aggregated and misfolded …

Autophagy and cancer: dynamism of the metabolism of tumor cells and tissues

K Tsuchihara, S Fujii, H Esumi - Cancer letters, 2009 - Elsevier
Autophagy is a dynamic process involving the bulk degradation of cytoplasmic organelles
and proteins. Based on the function of “cellular recycling”, autophagy plays key roles in the …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy and tumorigenesis

N Chen, J Debnath - FEBS letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Autophagy, or cellular self-digestion, is activated in cancer cells in response to multiple
stresses and has been demonstrated to promote tumor cell survival and drug resistance …

Tumor suppression and promotion by autophagy

Y Ávalos, J Canales, R Bravo-Sagua… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Autophagy is a highly regulated catabolic process that involves lysosomal degradation of
proteins and organelles, mostly mitochondria, for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis …