Targeting drug-tolerant cells: A promising strategy for overcoming acquired drug resistance in cancer cells.
Targeting drug-tolerant cells: A promising strategy for overcoming acquired drug resistance in cancer cells.
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Song, Xiaohai;Lan, Yang;Zheng, Xiuli;Zhu, Qianyu;Liao, Xuliang;Liu, Kai;Zhang, Weihan;Peng, Qiangbo;Zhu, Yunfeng;Zhao, Linyong;Chen, Xiaolong;Shu, Yang;Yang, Kun;Hu, Jiankun
Drug resistance remains the greatest challenge in improving outcomes for cancer patients who receive chemotherapy and targeted therapy. Surmounting evidence suggests that a subpopulation of cancer cells could escape intense selective drug treatment by entering a drug‐tolerant state without genetic variations. These drug‐tolerant cells (DTCs) are characterized with a slow proliferation rate and a reversible phenotype. They reside in the tumor region and may serve as a reservoir for resistant phenotypes. The survival of DTCs is regulated by epigenetic modifications, transcriptional regulation, mRNA translation remodeling, metabolic changes, antiapoptosis, interactions with the tumor microenvironment, and activation of signaling pathways. Thus, targeting the regulators of DTCs opens a new avenue for the treatment of therapy‐resistant tumors. In this review, we first provide an overview of common characteristics of DTCs and the regulating networks in DTCs development. We also discuss the potential therapeutic opportunities to target DTCs. Last, we discuss the current challenges and prospects of the DTC‐targeting approach to overcome acquired drug resistance. Reviewing the latest developments in DTC research could be essential in discovering of methods to eliminate DTCs, which may represent a novel therapeutic strategy for preventing drug resistance in the future. Drug‐tolerant cells (DTC) have features including slow‐cycling, stem cell‐like, EMT‐like, senescence‐like and diapause‐like changes, and could be the reservoir of multiple resistant mutations. In addition, multiple regulatory mechanisms are related to the maintenance of the DT state, like epigenomic, transcriptional and translational regulation; metabolic changes; signaling pathway activation, antiapoptosis, and tumor microenvironment.
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64.5
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Acharyya S;Oskarsson T;Vanharanta S;Malladi S;Kim J;Morris PG;Manova-Todorova K;Leversha M;Hogg N;Seshan VE;Norton L;Brogi E;Massagué J
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Massagué J
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Vagner, Stephan
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Sengupta, Amitava
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作者:
BeLow M;Osipo C
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