[HTML][HTML] Autophagy and beyond: Unraveling the complexity of UNC-51-like kinase 1 (ULK1) from biological functions to therapeutic implications

L Zou, M Liao, Y Zhen, S Zhu, X Chen, J Zhang… - … Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract UNC-51-like kinase 1 (ULK1), as a serine/threonine kinase, is an autophagic
initiator in mammals and a homologous protein of autophagy related protein (Atg) 1 in yeast …

[HTML][HTML] Role of autophagy in breast cancer and breast cancer stem cells

Y Han, S Fan, T Qin, J Yang… - International …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
Autophagy is a key catabolic process, in which cytosolic cargo is engulfed by the formation
of a double membrane and then degraded through the fusing of autophagosomes with …

Autophagy modulators for the treatment of oral and esophageal squamous cell carcinomas

T Khan, N Relitti, M Brindisi, S Magnano… - Medicinal Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oral squamous cell carcinomas (OSCC) and esophageal squamous cell carcinomas
(ESCC) exhibit a survival rate of less than 60% and 40%, respectively. Late‐stage diagnosis …

[HTML][HTML] Cross talk between autophagy and oncogenic signaling pathways and implications for cancer therapy

S Zada, JS Hwang, M Ahmed, TH Lai, TM Pham… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2021 - Elsevier
Autophagy is a highly conserved metabolic process involved in the degradation of
intracellular components including proteins and organelles. Consequently, it plays a critical …

Structure-guided design of a small-molecule activator of sirtuin-3 that modulates autophagy in triple negative breast cancer

J Zhang, L Zou, D Shi, J Liu, J Zhang… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Sirtuin-3 (SIRT3) is an NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase localized primarily in the
mitochondria with many links to different types of human cancers. Autophagy, which is a …

[HTML][HTML] A novel small-molecule activator of Sirtuin-1 induces autophagic cell death/mitophagy as a potential therapeutic strategy in glioblastoma

Z Yao, X Zhang, Y Zhen, XY He, S Zhao, XF Li… - Cell death & …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract Sirtuin-1 (SIRT1), the mammalian ortholog of yeast Sir2p, is well known to be a
highly conserved NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase that has been emerging as a key …

Discovery of a small-molecule bromodomain-containing protein 4 (BRD4) inhibitor that induces AMP-activated protein kinase-modulated autophagy-associated cell …

L Ouyang, L Zhang, J Liu, L Fu, D Yao… - Journal of medicinal …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Upon the basis of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data set, we identified that several
autophagy-related proteins such as AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) were remarkably …

Targeting regulated cell death (RCD) with small-molecule compounds in cancer therapy: A revisited review of apoptosis, autophagy-dependent cell death and …

W Liu, W Jin, S Zhu, Y Chen, B Liu - Drug Discovery Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Evasion of regulated cell death (RCD), mainly referring to apoptosis, autophagy-dependent
cell death, necroptosis, and other subroutines, is one of the well-established hallmarks of …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting the proteostasis network in Huntington's disease

TR Soares, SD Reis, BR Pinho, MR Duchen… - Ageing Research …, 2019 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder caused by
a polyglutamine expansion mutation in the huntingtin protein. Expansions above 40 …

[HTML][HTML] Flubendazole elicits anti-cancer effects via targeting EVA1A-modulated autophagy and apoptosis in Triple-negative Breast Cancer

Y Zhen, R Zhao, M Wang, X Jiang, F Gao, L Fu… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most prevalent neoplastic
diseases worldwide, but efficacious treatments for this pathological condition are still …