Pro-survival autophagy and cancer cell resistance to therapy

CK Das, M Mandal, D Kögel - Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, 2018 - Springer
Resistance to therapy is one of the prime causes for treatment failure in cancer and recurrent
disease. In recent years, autophagy has emerged as an important cell survival mechanism …

Promising strategy of mPTP modulation in cancer therapy: an emerging progress and future insight

M Waseem, BD Wang - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cancer has been progressively a major global health concern. With this developing global
concern, cancer determent is one of the most significant public health challenges of this era …

Chloroquine is a zinc ionophore

J Xue, A Moyer, B Peng, J Wu, BN Hannafon, WQ Ding - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Chloroquine is an established antimalarial agent that has been recently tested in clinical
trials for its anticancer activity. The favorable effect of chloroquine appears to be due to its …

Imaging the intracellular distribution of tyrosine kinase inhibitors in living cells with quantitative hyperspectral stimulated Raman scattering

D Fu, J Zhou, WS Zhu, PW Manley, YK Wang… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
ABL1 tyrosine-kinase inhibitors (TKI) are front-line therapy for chronic myelogenous
leukaemia and are among the best-known examples of targeted cancer therapeutics …

Therapeutic targeting of the mevalonate–geranylgeranyl diphosphate pathway with statins overcomes chemotherapy resistance in small cell lung cancer

C Guo, R Wan, Y He, SH Lin, J Cao, Y Qiu, T Zhang… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) lacks effective treatments to overcome chemoresistance.
Here we established multiple human chemoresistant xenograft models through long-term …

Cancer cell membrane wrapped nanoparticles for the delivery of a Bcl-2 inhibitor to triple-negative breast cancer

MA Scully, DE Wilkins, MN Dang… - Molecular …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Overexpression of the antiapoptotic protein B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) is correlated with poor
survival outcomes in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), making Bcl-2 inhibition a …

Inhibition of autophagy as a new means of improving chemotherapy efficiency in high-LC3B triple-negative breast cancers

S Lefort, C Joffre, Y Kieffer, AM Givel, B Bourachot… - Autophagy, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The triple-negative breast cancer (TN BC) subtype is the most aggressive form of invasive
BC. Despite intensive efforts to improve BC treatments, patients with TN BC continue to …

[HTML][HTML] Autophagy in cancer

X Zhi, Q Zhong - F1000prime reports, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Autophagy is a catabolic degradation process in which cellular proteins and organelles are
engulfed by double-membrane autophagosomes and degraded in lysosomes. Autophagy …

A Bim-targeting strategy overcomes adaptive bortezomib resistance in myeloma through a novel link between autophagy and apoptosis

S Chen, Y Zhang, L Zhou, Y Leng, H Lin… - Blood, The Journal …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
Bim contributes to resistance to various standard and novel agents. Here we demonstrate
that Bim plays a functional role in bortezomib resistance in multiple myeloma (MM) cells and …

HCC cells with high levels of Bcl-2 are resistant to ABT-737 via activation of the ROS–JNK–autophagy pathway

Z Ni, B Wang, X Dai, W Ding, T Yang, X Li… - Free Radical Biology …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bcl-2 inhibitor ABT-737 has shown promising antitumor efficacy in vivo and in
vitro. However, some reports have demonstrated that HCC cells are resistant to ABT-737 …