Therapeutic Potential of Autophagy Modulation in Cholangiocarcinoma.

ABSTRACT: Autophagy is a multistep catabolic process through which misfolded, aggregated or mutated proteins and damaged organelles are internalized in membrane vesicles called autophagosomes and ultimately fused to lysosomes for degradation of sequestered components. The multistep nature of the process offers multiple regulation points prone to be deregulated and cause different human diseases but also offers multiple targetable points for designing therapeutic strategies. Cancer cells have evolved to use autophagy as an adaptive mechanism to survive under extremely stressful conditions within the tumor microenvironment, but also to increase invasiveness and resistance to anticancer drugs such as chemotherapy. This review collects clinical evidence of autophagy deregulation during cholangiocarcinog

SUBMITTER: Perez-Montoyo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7140412 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature