Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, USA.
Cancer Res. 2012 Jan 15;72(2):379-86. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-11-1982.
Overwhelming are a set of key stress-responsive kinases that mediate cell apoptosis, which is an important process for tumor suppression. However, JNKs have also been implicated in the malignant transformation and tumorigenesis of cells. This review attempts to reconcile these 2 contradictory functions of JNKs with recent discoveries on the role of JNKs in compensatory growth of neighboring cells and stem cells, which may provide new mechanistic understanding about the role of JNKs in the regulation of cancer stem cells and the pathogenesis of cancers.
有一组关键的应激反应激酶,它们介导细胞凋亡,这是肿瘤抑制的一个重要过程。然而,JNK 也被牵连到细胞的恶性转化和肿瘤发生中。这篇综述试图将 JNK 的这两种矛盾的功能与最近关于 JNK 在邻近细胞和干细胞代偿性生长中的作用的发现联系起来,这可能为 JNK 在调节癌症干细胞和癌症发病机制中的作用提供新的机制理解。