Faculty of Dentistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University, USA; Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, USA.
Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2024 Sep;191:25-39. doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2024.07.005. Epub 2024 Jul 5.
Cancer is a pernicious and pressing medical problem; moreover, it is a failure of multicellular morphogenesis that sheds much light on evolutionary developmental biology. Numerous classes of pharmacological agents have been considered as cancer therapeutics and evaluated as potential carcinogenic agents; however, these are spread throughout the primary literature. Here, we briefly review recent work on ion channel drugs as promising anti-cancer treatments and present a systematic review of the known cancer-relevant effects of 109 drugs targeting ion channels. The roles of ion channels in cancer are consistent with the importance of bioelectrical parameters in cell regulation and with the functions of bioelectric signaling in morphogenetic signals that act as cancer suppressors. We find that compounds that are well-known for having targets in the nervous system, such as voltage-gated ion channels, ligand-gated ion channels, proton pumps, and gap junctions are especially relevant to cancer. Our review suggests further opportunities for the repurposing of numerous promising candidates in the field of cancer electroceuticals.
癌症是一个有害且紧迫的医学问题;此外,它是多细胞形态发生的失败,这为进化发育生物学提供了很多启示。许多类别的药理学药物已被认为是癌症治疗药物,并被评估为潜在的致癌剂;然而,这些药物分散在主要文献中。在这里,我们简要回顾了最近关于离子通道药物作为有前途的抗癌治疗方法的研究,并对 109 种靶向离子通道的药物的已知癌症相关作用进行了系统综述。离子通道在癌症中的作用与生物电学参数在细胞调节中的重要性以及生物电信号在作为癌症抑制剂的形态发生信号中的功能是一致的。我们发现,那些以神经系统为靶点的化合物,如电压门控离子通道、配体门控离子通道、质子泵和间隙连接,在癌症中特别相关。我们的综述表明,在癌症电疗领域,有许多有前途的候选药物有进一步重新利用的机会。
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