The manipulation of apoptosis for cancer therapy using BH3-mimetic drugs

ST Diepstraten, MA Anderson, PE Czabotar… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Apoptosis is a form of programmed cell death that is regulated by the balance between
prosurvival and proapoptotic BCL-2 protein family members. Evasion of apoptosis is a …

Towards precision medicine for AML

H Döhner, AH Wei, B Löwenberg - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2021 - nature.com
With rapid advances in sequencing technologies, tremendous progress has been made in
understanding the molecular pathogenesis of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML), thus …

Co-targeting of BAX and BCL-XL proteins broadly overcomes resistance to apoptosis in cancer

A Lopez, DE Reyna, N Gitego, F Kopp, H Zhou… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Deregulation of the BCL-2 family interaction network ensures cancer resistance to apoptosis
and is a major challenge to current treatments. Cancer cells commonly evade apoptosis …

Targeting apoptosis in cancer

P Singh, B Lim - Current oncology reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Apoptosis is a major mechanism of cancer cell death. Thus,
evasion of apoptosis results in therapy resistance. Here, we review apoptosis modulators in …

Evasion of apoptosis by myofibroblasts: a hallmark of fibrotic diseases

B Hinz, D Lagares - Nature Reviews Rheumatology, 2020 - nature.com
Organ fibrosis is a lethal outcome of autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as systemic
sclerosis. Myofibroblasts are scar-forming cells that are ultimately responsible for the …

BAK/BAX macropores facilitate mitochondrial herniation and mtDNA efflux during apoptosis

K McArthur, LW Whitehead, JM Heddleston, L Li… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION There has been an explosion of interest in the role of cell death pathways
and damage-associated molecular pattern (DAMP) signaling in sha** inflammatory and …

[HTML][HTML] Pro-apoptotic complexes of BAX and BAK on the outer mitochondrial membrane

P Wolf, A Schoeniger, F Edlich - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2022 - Elsevier
In multicellular organisms the regulated cell death apoptosis is critically important for both
ontogeny and homeostasis. Mitochondria are indispensable for stress-induced apoptosis …

Lipid unsaturation promotes BAX and BAK pore activity during apoptosis

S Dadsena, R Cuevas Arenas, G Vieira… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
BAX and BAK are proapoptotic members of the BCL2 family that directly mediate
mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilition (MOMP), a central step in apoptosis …

BCL2 and MCL1 inhibitors for hematologic malignancies

AW Roberts, AH Wei… - Blood, The Journal of the …, 2021 - ashpublications.org
BCL2 and MCL1 are commonly expressed prosurvival (antiapoptotic) proteins in
hematologic cancers and play important roles in their biology either through dysregulation or …

Acquisition of the recurrent Gly101Val mutation in BCL2 confers resistance to venetoclax in patients with progressive chronic lymphocytic leukemia

P Blombery, MA Anderson, J Gong, R Thijssen… - Cancer …, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
The BCL2 inhibitor venetoclax induces high rates of durable remission in patients with
previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). However, despite continuous daily …