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1The First Surgical Department of Breast Cancer, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
Abstract:
The transcriptional regulation of autophagy-lysosomal pathway adapts to cellular stress and enables advanced cancer cells survive. This pathway plays an oncopromoting or oncosuppressing role, depending on context-dependent stresses and treatment resistance. It remains controversial whether this pathway represents a target for drugs, although autophagy-lysosomal inducers and inhibitors have been tested in clinical trials for cancer treatment. Therefore, identifying the transcriptional regulators of autophagy-lysosomal pathway may lead to the development of effective cancer treatment and the improvement of the existing targeted cancer therapies. In this review, we summarize findings from several published studies on transcriptional regulation of autophagy-lysosomal pathway in cancer biology, and evaluate its functional role as a therapeutic target.
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