Autophagy in Multiple Myeloma: What Makes You Stronger Can Also Kill You
Menée sur des lignées cellulaires, cette éude met en évidence un mécanisme par lequel, en régulant la mort cellulaire autophagique, la caspase 10 favorise la survie des cellules cancéreuses, quelles que soient leurs anomales génétiques
Autophagy, a process for recycling cellular constituents, is normally associated with cell survival and is thought to be beneficial for tumor maintenance. However, in this issue of Cancer Cell, Lamy and colleagues report that multiple myeloma utilizes caspase-10 to restrain autophagy and undergoes autophagic cell death upon its removal or inhibition.
Cancer cell , commentaire en libre accès, 2012