TRPM8 levels determine tumor vulnerability to channel agonists.

ABSTRACT: Targeted therapies have pervasively enhanced clinical protocols and significantly improved survival and quality of life of cancer patients. Mostly grounded on small molecules and antibodies targeting deregulated mechanisms in cancer cells, precision oncology approaches are limited to a few tumor types because of the paucity of clinically actionable targets. Here, we report a comparative analysis of the cation channel transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8; also known as transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily M member 8) in lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate cancers. Our findings reveal high levels of channel expression in cores of all four carcinomas, irrespective of reduced expression of its RNA. Importantly, cancer cell lines that represent the various tumor

SUBMITTER: Alaimo A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12515718 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature