Dual role of autophagy in hallmarks of cancer

SS Singh, S Vats, AYQ Chia, TZ Tan, S Deng, MS Ong… - Oncogene, 2018 - nature.com
Evolutionarily conserved across eukaryotic cells, macroautophagy (herein autophagy) is an
intracellular catabolic degradative process targeting damaged and superfluous cellular …

New visions on natural products and cancer therapy: autophagy and related regulatory pathways

A Martelli, M Omrani, M Zarghooni, V Citi, S Brogi… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In the past few years, clinical as well as regular scientists have been
paying attention to medicinal applications of natural products. There are several …

Lipid sensing by mTOR complexes via de novo synthesis of phosphatidic acid

D Menon, D Salloum, E Bernfeld, E Gorodetsky… - Journal of Biological …, 2017 - ASBMB
mTOR, the mammalian target of rapamycin, integrates growth factor and nutrient signals to
promote a transformation from catabolic to anabolic metabolism, cell growth, and cell cycle …

The therapeutic potential of mTOR inhibitors in breast cancer

LS Steelman, AM Martelli, L Cocco… - British journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Rapamycin and modified rapamycins (rapalogs) have been used to prevent allograft
rejection after organ transplant for over 15 years. The mechanistic target of rapamycin …

Minimized combinatorial CRISPR screens identify genetic interactions in autophagy

V Diehl, M Wegner, P Grumati, K Husnjak… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Combinatorial CRISPR-Cas screens have advanced the mapping of genetic interactions,
but their experimental scale limits the number of targetable gene combinations. Here, we …

Emerging roles of hnRNPA1 in modulating malignant transformation

R Roy, Y Huang, MJ Seckl… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins (hnRNPs) are RNA‐binding proteins associated
with complex and diverse biological processes such as processing of heterogeneous …

The enigma of rapamycin dosage

S Mukhopadhyay, MA Frias, A Chatterjee… - Molecular cancer …, 2016 - AACR
The mTOR pathway is a critical regulator of cell growth, proliferation, metabolism, and
survival. Dysregulation of mTOR signaling has been observed in most cancers and, thus, the …

Glutamine as an essential amino acid for KRas-driven cancer cells

E Bernfeld, DA Foster - Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2019 - cell.com
Cancer cells consume glutamine, a nonessential amino acid (NEAA), at exceedingly high
rates to fulfill their energetic and biosynthetic requirements for proliferation. Glutamine plays …

Theabrownins Produced via Chemical Oxidation of Tea Polyphenols Inhibit Human Lung Cancer Cells in vivo and in vitro by Suppressing the PI3K/AKT/mTOR …

Y Wang, Y Yuan, C Wang, B Wang, W Zou… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
During the fermentation of dark tea, theabrownins (TBs), carbohydrates, and other
substances get irreversibly complex. Recent research on the biological activity of TBs is not …

Rapamycin, proliferation and geroconversion to senescence

MV Blagosklonny - Cell cycle, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Rapamycin inhibits cell proliferation, yet preserves (re)-proliferative potential (RPP). RPP is
a potential of quiescent cells that is lost in senescent cells. mTOR drives conversion from …