How can we use the endocytosis pathways to design nanoparticle drug-delivery vehicles to target cancer cells over healthy cells?

VT Cong, JL Houng, M Kavallaris, X Chen… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Targeted drug delivery in cancer typically focuses on maximising the endocytosis of drugs
into the diseased cells. However, there has been less focus on exploiting the differences in …

Macropinocytosis: mechanisms and regulation

G Salloum, AR Bresnick, JM Backer - Biochemical Journal, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Macropinocytosis is defined as an actin-dependent but coat-and dynamin-independent
endocytic uptake process, which generates large intracellular vesicles (macropinosomes) …

Macropinocytosis confers resistance to therapies targeting cancer anabolism

V Jayashankar, AL Edinger - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Macropinocytic cancer cells scavenge amino acids from extracellular proteins. Here, we
show that consuming necrotic cell debris via macropinocytosis (necrocytosis) offers …

[HTML][HTML] Macropinocytosis: Biology and mechanisms

RR Kay - Cells & development, 2021 - Elsevier
Macropinocytosis is a form of endocytosis performed by ruffles and cups of the plasma
membrane. These close to entrap droplets of medium into micron-sized vesicles, which are …

Revealing macropinocytosis using nanoparticles

N Means, CK Elechalawar, WR Chen… - Molecular aspects of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Endocytosis mechanisms are one of the methods that cells use to interact with their
environments. Endocytosis mechanisms vary from the clathrin-mediated endocytosis to the …

Macropinocytosis: Insights from immunology and cancer

JL Stow, Y Hung, AA Wall - Current opinion in cell biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Macropinocytosis is increasingly recognized for its versatile adaptations and functions as a
highly conserved, ubiquitous pathway for the bulk uptake of fluid, particulate cargo, and …

The dual role of macropinocytosis in cancers: promoting growth and inducing methuosis to participate in anticancer therapies as targets

S Song, Y Zhang, T Ding, N Ji, H Zhao - Frontiers in Oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Macropinocytosis is an important mechanism of internalizing extracellular materials and
dissolved molecules in eukaryotic cells. Macropinocytosis has a dual effect on cancer cells …

PI (3, 4) P2 signaling in cancer and metabolism

L Gozzelino, MC De Santis, F Gulluni, E Hirsch… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The phosphatidylinositide 3 kinases (PI3Ks) and their downstream mediators AKT and
mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) are central regulators of glycolysis, cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Tailoring iron oxide nanoparticles for efficient cellular internalization and endosomal escape

L Rueda-Gensini, J Cifuentes, MC Castellanos… - Nanomaterials, 2020 - mdpi.com
Iron oxide nanoparticles (IONs) have been widely explored for biomedical applications due
to their high biocompatibility, surface-coating versatility, and superparamagnetic properties …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamin-independent mechanisms of endocytosis and receptor trafficking

C Gundu, VK Arruri, P Yadav, U Navik, A Kumar… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Endocytosis is a fundamental mechanism by which cells perform housekee** functions. It
occurs via a variety of mechanisms and involves many regulatory proteins. The GTPase …