Overcoming cancer therapeutic bottleneck by drug repurposing

Z Zhang, L Zhou, N Xie, EC Nice, T Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ever present hurdles for the discovery of new drugs for cancer therapy have necessitated
the development of the alternative strategy of drug repurposing, the development of old …

Autophagy in tumour immunity and therapy

H Xia, DR Green, W Zou - Nature reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Autophagy is a regulated mechanism that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional cellular
components and recycles metabolic substrates. In response to stress signals in the tumour …

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 cancer: moving from understanding mechanism to improving therapy responses in patients

JM Mulcahy Levy, A Thorburn - Cell Death & Differentiation, 2020 - nature.com
Autophagy allows for cellular material to be delivered to lysosomes for degradation resulting
in basal or stress-induced turnover of cell components that provide energy and …

Targeting autophagy in cancer

JMM Levy, CG Towers, A Thorburn - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Autophagy is a mechanism by which cellular material is delivered to lysosomes for
degradation, leading to the basal turnover of cell components and providing energy and …

Targeting autophagy in cancer

AV Onorati, M Dyczynski, R Ojha, RK Amaravadi - Cancer, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Autophagy is a conserved, self‐degradation system that is critical for maintaining cellular
homeostasis during stress conditions. Dysregulated autophagy has implications in health …

Crosstalk between mammalian autophagy and the ubiquitin-proteasome system

NM Kocaturk, D Gozuacik - Frontiers in cell and developmental …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Autophagy and the ubiquitin–proteasome system (UPS) are the two major intracellular
quality control and recycling mechanisms that are responsible for cellular homeostasis in …

Autophagy: The spotlight for cellular stress responses

P Ravanan, IF Srikumar, P Talwar - Life sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Autophagy is an essential cellular mechanism which plays “housekeeping” role in normal
physiological processes including removing of long lived, aggregated and misfolded …

Recent insights into the function of autophagy in cancer

R Amaravadi, AC Kimmelman, E White - Genes & development, 2016 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Macroautophagy (referred to here as autophagy) is induced by starvation to capture and
degrade intracellular proteins and organelles in lysosomes, which recycles intracellular …

Autophagy in malignant transformation and cancer progression

L Galluzzi, F Pietrocola, JM Bravo‐San Pedro… - The EMBO …, 2015 - embopress.org
Autophagy plays a key role in the maintenance of cellular homeostasis. In healthy cells,
such a homeostatic activity constitutes a robust barrier against malignant transformation …