The role of BCL-2 family proteins in regulating apoptosis and cancer therapy

S Qian, Z Wei, W Yang, J Huang, Y Yang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Apoptosis, as a very important biological process, is a response to developmental cues or
cellular stress. Impaired apoptosis plays a central role in the development of cancer and …

BCL-2 family isoforms in apoptosis and cancer

CFA Warren, MW Wong-Brown, NA Bowden - Cell death & disease, 2019 - nature.com
The BCl-2 family has long been identified for its role in apoptosis. Following the initial
discovery of BCL-2 in the context of B-cell lymphoma in the 1980s, a number of homologous …

Acetaminophen hepatotoxicity: paradigm for understanding mechanisms of drug-induced liver injury

H Jaeschke, A Ramachandran - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Acetaminophen (APAP) overdose is the clinically most relevant drug hepatotoxicity in
western countries, and, because of translational relevance of animal models, APAP is …

Mannose impairs tumour growth and enhances chemotherapy

PS Gonzalez, J O'Prey, S Cardaci, VJA Barthet… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
It is now well established that tumours undergo changes in cellular metabolism 1. As this
can reveal tumour cell vulnerabilities and because many tumours exhibit enhanced glucose …

Evaluation of the use of therapeutic peptides for cancer treatment

S Marqus, E Pirogova, TJ Piva - Journal of biomedical science, 2017 - Springer
Cancer along with cardiovascular disease are the main causes of death in the industrialised
countries around the World. Conventional cancer treatments are losing their therapeutic …

The lysosome as an imperative regulator of autophagy and cell death

KK Mahapatra, SR Mishra, BP Behera, S Patil… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Lysosomes are single membrane-bound organelles containing acid hydrolases responsible
for the degradation of cellular cargo and maintenance of cellular homeostasis. Lysosomes …

[HTML][HTML] Pore-forming toxins: ancient, but never really out of fashion

MD Peraro, FG Van Der Goot - Nature reviews microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Pore-forming toxins (PFTs) are virulence factors produced by many pathogenic bacteria and
have long fascinated structural biologists, microbiologists and immunologists. Interestingly …

Control of apoptosis by the BCL-2 protein family: implications for physiology and therapy

PE Czabotar, G Lessene, A Strasser… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2014 - nature.com
The BCL-2 protein family determines the commitment of cells to apoptosis, an ancient cell
suicide programme that is essential for development, tissue homeostasis and immunity. Too …

De novo design of bioactive protein switches

RA Langan, SE Boyken, AH Ng, JA Samson, G Dods… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Allosteric regulation of protein function is widespread in biology, but is challenging for de
novo protein design as it requires the explicit design of multiple states with comparable free …

The mystery of BCL2 family: Bcl-2 proteins and apoptosis: an update

WA Siddiqui, A Ahad, H Ahsan - Archives of toxicology, 2015 - Springer
Apoptosis is a critically important biological process that plays an essential role in cell fate
and homeostasis. An important component of the apoptotic pathway is the family of proteins …