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Targeting Autophagy in Cancer

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Levy, Jean M. Mulcahy, Towers, Christina G., Thorburn, Andrew·2017·Nature Reviews Cancer

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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 macromolecular precursors. Autophagy has opposing, context-dependent roles in cancer, and interventions to both stimulate and inhibit autophagy have been proposed as cancer therapies. This has led to the therapeutic targeting of autophagy in cancer to be sometimes viewed as controversial. In this Review, we suggest a way forwards for the effective targeting of autophagy by understanding the context-dependent roles of autophagy and by capitalizing on modern approaches to clinical trial design.

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Authors
Levy, J. M. M., Towers, C. G., & Thorburn, A.
Affiliations
  • Morgan Adams Foundation (US)
  • University of Colorado Anschutz (US)
Corresponding author
Thorburn, Andrew
Venue
Nature Reviews Cancer
Published
2017-07-28
Volume
17
Issue
9
Pages
528-542
ISSN
  • 1474-175X (ISSN-L)
  • 1474-1768
OpenAlex
W2740618823
Cited by
2,526
References
141
Citations by year
2026: 131 · 2025: 193 · 2024: 294 · 2023: 358 · 2022: 384 · 2021: 420 · 2020: 360 · 2019: 225 · 2018: 146 · 2017: 14
FWCI
27.26
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature reviews. Cancer (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) (acceptedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Cancer Institute (R01CA150925, K08CA193982, R01CA190170, R21CA197887, T32CA190216)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Physiology › Calcium signaling and nucleotide metabolism
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
Keywords
autophagy, cancer therapy, autophagy inhibition, lysosomal degradation, clinical trial design
MeSH terms
Sequestosome-1 Protein, Animals, Antineoplastic Agents, Autophagy, Chloroquine, Clinical Trials as Topic, Humans, Hydroxychloroquine, Microtubule-Associated Proteins, Neoplasms, Biomarkers, Tumor, Tumor Escape

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