Mitochondrial adaptation in cancer drug resistance: prevalence, mechanisms, and management

P Jin, J Jiang, L Zhou, Z Huang, EC Nice… - Journal of Hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Drug resistance represents a major obstacle in cancer management, and the mechanisms
underlying stress adaptation of cancer cells in response to therapy-induced hostile …

Is target-based drug discovery efficient? Discovery and “off-target” mechanisms of all drugs

A Sadri - Journal of medicinal chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Target-based drug discovery is the dominant paradigm of drug discovery; however, a
comprehensive evaluation of its real-world efficiency is lacking. Here, a manual systematic …

Targeting glucose transporters for breast cancer therapy: the effect of natural and synthetic compounds

AM Barbosa, F Martel - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reprogramming of cellular energy metabolism is widely accepted to be a cancer hallmark.
The deviant energetic metabolism of cancer cells-known as the Warburg effect-consists in …

Sorafenib kills liver cancer cells by disrupting SCD1‐mediated synthesis of monounsaturated fatty acids via the ATP‐AMPK‐mTOR‐SREBP1 signaling pathway

G Liu, S Kuang, R Cao, J Wang, Q Peng… - The FASEB …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Sorafenib is a multikinase inhibitor that is effective in treating advanced liver cancer.
Although its mechanism of action through several established cancer‐related protein kinase …

JNK activation and translocation to mitochondria mediates mitochondrial dysfunction and cell death induced by VDAC opening and sorafenib in hepatocarcinoma …

KA Heslop, A Rovini, EG Hunt, D Fang… - Biochemical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The multikinase inhibitor sorafenib, and opening of voltage dependent anion channels
(VDAC) by the erastin-like compound X1 promotes oxidative stress and mitochondrial …

[HTML][HTML] AKR1C3-dependent lipid droplet formation confers hepatocellular carcinoma cell adaptability to targeted therapy

C Wu, C Dai, X Li, M Sun, H Chu, Q Xuan, Y Yin… - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Increased lipid droplet (LD) formation has been linked to tumor metastasis,
stemness, and chemoresistance in various types of cancer. Here, we revealed that LD …

Sorafenib targets the mitochondrial electron transport chain complexes and ATP synthase to activate the PINK1–Parkin pathway and modulate cellular drug response

C Zhang, Z Liu, E Bunker, A Ramirez, S Lee… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
Sorafenib (Nexavar) is a broad-spectrum multikinase inhibitor that proves effective in
treating advanced renal-cell carcinoma and liver cancer. Despite its well-characterized …

ProTargetMiner as a proteome signature library of anticancer molecules for functional discovery

AA Saei, CM Beusch, A Chernobrovkin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Deconvolution of targets and action mechanisms of anticancer compounds is fundamental in
drug development. Here, we report on ProTargetMiner as a publicly available expandable …

ET-GRU: using multi-layer gated recurrent units to identify electron transport proteins

NQK Le, EKY Yapp, HY Yeh - BMC bioinformatics, 2019 - Springer
Background Electron transport chain is a series of protein complexes embedded in the
process of cellular respiration, which is an important process to transfer electrons and other …

Effects of 31 FDA approved small-molecule kinase inhibitors on isolated rat liver mitochondria

J Zhang, A Salminen, X Yang, Y Luo, Q Wu… - Archives of …, 2017 - Springer
The FDA has approved 31 small-molecule kinase inhibitors (KIs) for human use as of
November 2016, with six having black box warnings for hepatotoxicity (BBW-H) in product …