Multidisciplinary standards of care and recent progress in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

AJ Grossberg, LC Chu, CR Deig… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Despite tremendous gains in the molecular understanding of exocrine pancreatic cancer,
the prognosis for this disease remains very poor, largely because of delayed disease …

The MAPK and AMPK signalings: interplay and implication in targeted cancer therapy

J Yuan, X Dong, J Yap, J Hu - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2020 - Springer
Cancer is characterized as a complex disease caused by coordinated alterations of multiple
signaling pathways. The Ras/RAF/MEK/ERK (MAPK) signaling is one of the best-defined …

Targeting autophagy in cancer: recent advances and future directions

RK Amaravadi, AC Kimmelman, J Debnath - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Autophagy, a multistep lysosomal degradation pathway that supports nutrient recycling and
metabolic adaptation, has been implicated as a process that regulates cancer. Although …

Metabolic regulation of cell growth and proliferation

J Zhu, CB Thompson - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2019 - nature.com
Cellular metabolism is at the foundation of all biological activities. The catabolic processes
that support cellular bioenergetics and survival have been well studied. By contrast, how …

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 …

Metabolic networks in mutant KRAS-driven tumours: tissue specificities and the microenvironment

SA Kerk, T Papagiannakopoulos, YM Shah… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Oncogenic mutations in KRAS drive common metabolic programmes that facilitate tumour
survival, growth and immune evasion in colorectal carcinoma, non-small-cell lung cancer …

Metabolic codependencies in the tumor microenvironment

P Dey, AC Kimmelman, RA DePinho - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
Metabolic reprogramming enables cancer cell growth, proliferation, and survival. This
reprogramming is driven by the combined actions of oncogenic alterations in cancer cells …

[HTML][HTML] Biological functions of autophagy genes: a disease perspective

B Levine, G Kroemer - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The lysosomal degradation pathway of autophagy plays a fundamental role in cellular,
tissue, and organismal homeostasis and is mediated by evolutionarily conserved autophagy …

Mechanisms and implications of metabolic heterogeneity in cancer

J Kim, RJ DeBerardinis - Cell metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Tumors display reprogrammed metabolic activities that promote cancer progression. We
currently possess a limited understanding of the processes governing tumor metabolism in …

Protective autophagy elicited by RAF→ MEK→ ERK inhibition suggests a treatment strategy for RAS-driven cancers

CG Kinsey, SA Camolotto, AM Boespflug, KP Guillen… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) was responsible for~ 44,000 deaths in the United
States in 2018 and is the epitome of a recalcitrant cancer driven by a pharmacologically …