Department of Neurosurgery of 91589Gansu Provincial People's Hospital, Lanzhou, China.
Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, 481875Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Technol Cancer Res Treat. 2023 Jan-Dec;22:15330338231158917. doi: 10.1177/15330338231158917.
Cancer is a debilitating disease, causing millions of deaths annually throughout the world. Due to their adaptive ability to meet nutritional demands, cancer cells often utilize more energy than normal cells. In order to develop new strategies to treat cancer, it is necessary to understand the underlying mechanisms of energy metabolism, which is yet largely unknown. Recent studies have shown that cellular innate nanodomains are involved in cellular energy metabolism and anabolism and GPCRs signaling regulation, which have a direct effect on cell fate and functions. Therefore, harnessing cellular innate nanodomains may evoke significant therapeutic impact and shift the research focus from exogenous nanomaterials to cellular innate nanodomains, which will have great potential to develop a new treatment modality for cancer. Keeping these points in view, we briefly discuss the impact of cellular innate nanodomains and their potential for advancing cancer therapeutics, and propose the concept of innate biological nano confinements, which include any innate structural and functional nano domains both in extracellular and intracellular with spatial heterogeneity.
癌症是一种使人衰弱的疾病,每年在全球导致数百万人死亡。由于癌症细胞具有适应营养需求的能力,它们通常比正常细胞消耗更多的能量。为了开发治疗癌症的新策略,有必要了解能量代谢的潜在机制,而这在很大程度上尚不清楚。最近的研究表明,细胞内固有纳米域参与细胞能量代谢和合成代谢以及 GPCR 信号调节,对细胞命运和功能有直接影响。因此,利用细胞内固有纳米域可能会产生重大的治疗效果,并将研究重点从外源性纳米材料转移到细胞内固有纳米域,这将为癌症治疗带来巨大的潜力。考虑到这些要点,我们简要讨论了细胞内固有纳米域的影响及其在推进癌症治疗方面的潜力,并提出了固有生物纳米限域的概念,它包括细胞外和细胞内任何具有空间异质性的固有结构和功能的纳米域。