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Complex regulation of autophagy in cancer - integrated approaches to discover the networks that hold a double-edged sword.
Seminars in cancer biology - 1 Aug 2013
Kubisch János, Türei Dénes, Földvári-Nagy László, Dunai Zsuzsanna A, Zsákai Lilian, Varga Máté, Vellai Tibor, Csermely Péter, Korcsmáros Tamás
Abstract excerpt
Autophagy, a highly regulated self-degradation process of eukaryotic cells, is a context-dependent tumor-suppressing mechanism that can also promote tumor cell survival upon stress and treatment resistance. Because of this ambiguity, autophagy is considered as a double-edged sword in oncology, making anti-cancer therapeutic approaches highly challenging. In this review, we present how systems-level knowledge on...
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