Regulated cell death (RCD) in cancer: key pathways and targeted therapies

F Peng, M Liao, R Qin, S Zhu, C Peng, L Fu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Regulated cell death (RCD), also well-known as programmed cell death (PCD), refers to the
form of cell death that can be regulated by a variety of biomacromolecules, which is …

[HTML][HTML] Small molecules in targeted cancer therapy: advances, challenges, and future perspectives

L Zhong, Y Li, L Xiong, W Wang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Due to the advantages in efficacy and safety compared with traditional chemotherapy drugs,
targeted therapeutic drugs have become mainstream cancer treatments. Since the first …

Mechanisms of BCL-2 family proteins in mitochondrial apoptosis

PE Czabotar, AJ Garcia-Saez - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2023 - nature.com
The proteins of the BCL-2 family are key regulators of mitochondrial apoptosis, acting as
either promoters or inhibitors of cell death. The functional interplay and balance between the …

The manipulation of apoptosis for cancer therapy using BH3-mimetic drugs

ST Diepstraten, MA Anderson, PE Czabotar… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that is regulated by the balance between
prosurvival and proapoptotic BCL-2 protein family members. Evasion of apoptosis is a …

Targeting apoptosis in cancer therapy

BA Carneiro, WS El-Deiry - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
For over three decades, a mainstay and goal of clinical oncology has been the development
of therapies promoting the effective elimination of cancer cells by apoptosis. This …

Towards precision medicine for AML

H Döhner, AH Wei, B Löwenberg - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
With rapid advances in sequencing technologies, tremendous progress has been made in
understanding the molecular pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), thus …

Atropisomerism in the pharmaceutically relevant realm

M Basilaia, MH Chen, J Secka… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Atropisomerism is a conformational chirality that occurs when there is hindered
rotation about a σ-bond. While atropisomerism is exemplified by biaryls, it is observed in …

Targeting MCL-1 in cancer: current status and perspectives

H Wang, M Guo, H Wei, Y Chen - Journal of hematology & oncology, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Myeloid leukemia 1 (MCL-1) is an antiapoptotic protein of the BCL-2 family that
prevents apoptosis by binding to the pro-apoptotic BCL-2 proteins. Overexpression of MCL …

Co-targeting of BAX and BCL-XL proteins broadly overcomes resistance to apoptosis in cancer

A Lopez, DE Reyna, N Gitego, F Kopp, H Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deregulation of the BCL-2 family interaction network ensures cancer resistance to apoptosis
and is a major challenge to current treatments. Cancer cells commonly evade apoptosis …

Cell death pathways: intricate connections and disease implications

M Kist, D Vucic - The EMBO Journal, 2021 - embopress.org
Various forms of cell death have been identified over the last decades with each relying on a
different subset of proteins for the activation and execution of their respective pathway (s). In …