Autophagy in cancer biology and therapy

Abstract

The role of macroautophagy (hereafter autophagy) in cancer biology and response to clinical intervention is complex. It is clear that autophagy is dysregulated in a wide variety of tumor settings, both during tumor initiation and progression, and in response to therapy. However, the pleiotropic mechanistic roles of autophagy in controlling cell behavior make it difficult to predict in a given tumor setting what the role of autophagy, and, by extension, the therapeutic outcome of targeting autophagy, might be. In this review we summarize the evidence in the literature supporting pro- and anti-tumorigenic and-therapeutic roles of autophagy in cancer. This overview encompasses roles of autophagy in nutrient management, cell death, cell senescence, regulation of proteotoxic stress and cellular homeostasis, regulation of tumor-host interactions and participation in changes in metabolism. We also try to understand, where possible, the mechanistic bases of these roles for autophagy. We specifically expand on the emerging role of genetically-engineered mouse models of cancer in shedding light on these issues in vivo. We also consider how any or all of the above functions of autophagy proteins might be targetable by extant or future classes of pharmacologic agents. We conclude by briefly exploring non-canonical roles for subsets of the key autophagy proteins in cellular processes, and how these might impact upon cancer.

Key words： autophagy; cancer; inflammation; metabolism; apoptosis; homeostasis

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