ReviewCancer biology & therapy2020
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans as targets for cancer therapy: a review.
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- Priming Cells with Modulators of Cellular Signaling Ensures Enhanced Selectivity of HSPG-Specific Protein-Drug Conjugate Delivery.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Proteoglycans as Molecular Regulators of Bone Metastasis: Extracellular Matrix Remodeling, Tumor-Bone Crosstalk, Dormancy, and Therapeutic Opportunities.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Glycosaminoglycans in tissue regeneration: Insights into glycobiology and their biomedical application.Bioactive materials · 2026Review
- Tumor promotion or suppression: Revisiting the role of EXT1 and Heparan sulfate.Histology and histopathology · 2026Review
- TGF-β-induced epithelial to mesenchymal transition drives proteoglycan binding specificity of HPV-based drug conjugates for cancer cells.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Phosphorylation of UDP-glucose dehydrogenase increases glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis and promotes tumor cell motility, spheroid growth, and therapeutic resistance.Matrix biology : journal of the International Society for Matrix Biology · 2025Article
- Reprogramming FGF1 from the natural growth factor to the engineered heparan sulphate biosensor.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2025Article
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- Expanding the Role of Heparin Derivatives in Oncology: From Anticoagulation to Antitumor Activity.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Cancer stem cells in personalized therapy: mechanisms, microenvironment crosstalk, and therapeutic vulnerabilities.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Identification of HSPG2 as a bladder pro-tumor protein through NID1/AKT signaling.Cancer cell international · 2024Article
- Uveal Melanoma: Comprehensive Review of Its Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Future Perspectives.Biomedicines · 2024Review
- Exostoisns (EXT1/2) in Head and Neck Cancers: An In Silico Analysis and Clinical Correlates.International dental journal · 2024Article
- Prodrug-conjugated tumor-seeking commensals for targeted cancer therapy.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Brain clearance of protein aggregates: a close-up on astrocytes.Molecular neurodegeneration · 2024Review
- The exostosin glycosyltransferase 1/STAT3 axis is a driver of breast cancer aggressiveness.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Heparan sulfate 6-O-sulfotransferase 2 promotes gastric cancer progression by modulating the TGF-β/smad2/3 pathway.American journal of translational research · 2024Article
- 6-O-endosulfatases in tumor metastasis: heparan sulfate proteoglycans modification and potential therapeutic targets.American journal of cancer research · 2024Review
- Targeting heparan sulfate proteoglycans as an effective strategy for inhibiting cancer cell migration and invasiveness compared to heparin.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPGs) play important roles in cancer initiation and progression, by interacting with the signaling pathways that affect proliferation, adhesion, invasion and angiogenesis. These roles suggest the possibility of various strategies of regulation of these molecules. In this review, we demonstrated that the anticancer drugs can regulate the heparan sulfate proteoglycans activity in different ways: some act directly in core protein, and can bind to a specific type of HSPG. Others drugs interact with glycosaminoglycans chains, and others can act directly in enzymes that regulate HSPGs levels. We also demonstrated that the HSPGs drug targets can be divided into four groups: monoclonal antibodies, antitumor antibiotic, natural products, and mimetics peptide. Interestingly, many drugs demonstrated in this review are approved by FDA and is used in cancer therapy (Food and Drug Administration) like trastuzumab, panitumumab, bleomycin and bisphosphonate zoledronic acid (ASCO) or are in clinical trials like codrituzumab and genistein. This review should help researchers to understand the mechanism of action of anticancer drugs existing and also may inspire the discovery of new drugs that regulate the heparan sulfate proteoglycans activity.
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