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ArticleJournal of oncology2013

Role of the Crosstalk between Autophagy and Apoptosis in Cancer.

Minfei Su, Yang Mei, Sangita Sinha

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Article in Journal of oncology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 159 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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159citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

159 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 302 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Minfei SuDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, P.O. Box 6050, Dept. 2710, Fargo, ND 58102-6050, USA.
Yang Mei
Sangita Sinha
North Dakota State University · US

Funding

Pilot Projects: Core DP30GM103332 · NIGMS · NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI SIBI, MUKUND P. · 2012 to 2016
$4.9M
Molecular mechanism by which gamma-herpesviruses evade autophagyR21AI078108 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI SINHA, SANGITA · 2008 to 2009
$415k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI078108NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM103332
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Autophagy and apoptosis are catabolic pathways essential for organismal homeostasis. Autophagy is normally a cell-survival pathway involving the degradation and recycling of obsolete, damaged, or harmful macromolecular assemblies; however, excess autophagy has been implicated in type II cell death. Apoptosis is the canonical programmed cell death pathway. Autophagy and apoptosis have now been shown to be interconnected by several molecular nodes of crosstalk, enabling the coordinate regulation of degradation by these pathways. Normally, autophagy and apoptosis are both tumor suppressor pathways. Autophagy fulfils this role as it facilitates the degradation of oncogenic molecules, preventing development of cancers, while apoptosis prevents the survival of cancer cells. Consequently, defective or inadequate levels of either autophagy or apoptosis can lead to cancer. However, autophagy appears to have a dual role in cancer, as it has now been shown that autophagy also facilitates the survival of tumor cells in stress conditions such as hypoxic or low-nutrition environments. Here we review the multiple molecular mechanisms of coordination of autophagy and apoptosis and the role of the proteins involved in this crosstalk in cancer. A comprehensive understanding of the interconnectivity of autophagy and apoptosis is essential for the development of effective cancer therapeutics.

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PMID23840208
PMCPMC3687500
OpenAlexW2159372512

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