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 …

Autophagy in health and disease: From molecular mechanisms to therapeutic target

G Lu, Y Wang, Y Shi, Z Zhang, C Huang, W He… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Macroautophagy/autophagy is an evolutionally conserved catabolic process in which
cytosolic contents, such as aggregated proteins, dysfunctional organelle, or invading …

Therapeutic implications of targeting autophagy and TGF-β crosstalk for the treatment of liver fibrosis

S Siapoush, R Rezaei, H Alavifard, B Hatami, MR Zali… - Life Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Liver fibrosis is characterized by the excessive deposition and accumulation of extracellular
matrix components, mainly collagens, and occurs in response to a broad spectrum of …

Targeting autophagy for cancer treatment and tumor chemosensitization

M Pérez-Hernández, A Arias, D Martínez-García… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Autophagy is a tightly regulated catabolic process that facilitates nutrient recycling from
damaged organelles and other cellular components through lysosomal degradation …

Structure and RAF family kinase isoform selectivity of type II RAF inhibitors tovorafenib and naporafenib

E Tkacik, K Li, G Gonzalez-Del Pino, BH Ha… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - ASBMB
Upon activation by RAS, RAF family kinases initiate signaling through the MAP kinase
cascade to control cell growth, proliferation, and differentiation. Among RAF isoforms (ARAF …

Mitochondrial quality control in the brain: The physiological and pathological roles

X Shen, P Sun, H Zhang, H Yang - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The human brain has high energetic expenses and consumes over 20% of total oxygen
metabolism. Abnormal brain energy homeostasis leads to various brain diseases. Among …

Kinase domain autophosphorylation rewires the activity and substrate specificity of CK1 enzymes

SN Cullati, A Chaikuad, JS Chen, J Gebel, L Tesmer… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
CK1s are acidophilic serine/threonine kinases with multiple critical cellular functions; their
misregulation contributes to cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, and sleep phase …

Inhibitors of the Hippo pathway kinases STK3/MST2 and STK4/MST1 have utility for the treatment of acute myeloid leukemia

N Bata, A Chaikuad, NA Bakas… - Journal of medicinal …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Serine/threonine-protein kinases 3 and 4 (STK3 and STK4, respectively) are key
components of the Hippo signaling pathway, which regulates cell proliferation and death …

Two faces of autophagy in the struggle against cancer

A Chmurska, K Matczak, A Marczak - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Autophagy can play a double role in cancerogenesis: it can either inhibit further
development of the disease or protect cells, causing stimulation of tumour growth. This …

Cancer cells escape autophagy inhibition via NRF2-induced macropinocytosis

H Su, F Yang, R Fu, X Li, R French, E Mose, X Pu… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Many cancers, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), depend on autophagy-
mediated scavenging and recycling of intracellular macromolecules, suggesting that …