Towards targeting of shared mechanisms of cancer metastasis and therapy resistance

F Weiss, D Lauffenburger, P Friedl - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Resistance to therapeutic treatment and metastatic progression jointly determine a fatal
outcome of cancer. Cancer metastasis and therapeutic resistance are traditionally studied as …

Radiotherapy as a tool to elicit clinically actionable signalling pathways in cancer

G Petroni, LC Cantley, L Santambrogio… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
A variety of targeted anticancer agents have been successfully introduced into clinical
practice, largely reflecting their ability to inhibit specific molecular alterations that are …

DNA damage and the balance between survival and death in cancer biology

WP Roos, AD Thomas, B Kaina - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2016 - nature.com
DNA is vulnerable to damage resulting from endogenous metabolites, environmental and
dietary carcinogens, some anti-inflammatory drugs, and genotoxic cancer therapeutics …

Autophagy as a target for anticancer therapy

F Janku, DJ McConkey, DS Hong… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2011 - nature.com
Autophagy is an important homeostatic cellular recycling mechanism responsible for
degrading unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular organelles and proteins in all living cells …

The double-edged sword of autophagy modulation in cancer

E White, RS DiPaola - Clinical cancer research, 2009 - AACR
Macroautophagy (autophagy) is a lysosomal degradation pathway for the breakdown of
intracellular proteins and organelles. Although constitutive autophagy is a homeostatic …

[HTML][HTML] Application and interpretation of current autophagy inhibitors and activators

Y Yang, L Hu, H Zheng, C Mao, W Hu… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2013 - nature.com
Autophagy is the major intracellular degradation system, by which cytoplasmic materials are
delivered to and degraded in the lysosome. As a quality control mechanism for cytoplasmic …

Targeting the PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway: effective combinations and clinical considerations

J LoPiccolo, GM Blumenthal, WB Bernstein… - Drug Resistance …, 2008 - Elsevier
The PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway is a prototypic survival pathway that is constitutively activated
in many types of cancer. Mechanisms for pathway activation include loss of tumor …

Rationally designed rapamycin-encapsulated ZIF-8 nanosystem for overcoming chemotherapy resistance

M Xu, Y Hu, W Ding, F Li, J Lin, M Wu, J Wu, LP Wen… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) nanoparticles are widely reported as a pH-
sensitive drug delivery carrier with high loading capacity for tumor therapy. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Glutathione peroxidase 4 inhibition induces ferroptosis and mTOR pathway suppression in thyroid cancer

KR Sekhar, DN Hanna, S Cyr, JJ Baechle, S Kuravi… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) demonstrates significantly reduced patient survival with
metastatic progression. Tumor progression can be influenced by metabolism, including …

Therapeutic targeting of cancers with loss of PTEN function

LM Dillon, TW Miller - Current drug targets, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
Phosphatase and tensin homologue deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN) is one of the most
frequently disrupted tumor suppressors in cancer. The lipid phosphatase activity of PTEN …