Chaperone-Mediated Autophagy in Pericytes: A Key Target for the Development of New Treatments against Glioblastoma Progression.
María Dolores SalinasRut ValdorPublished in: International journal of molecular sciences (2022)
Glioblastoma (GB) cells physically interact with peritumoral pericytes (PCs) present in the brain microvasculature. These interactions facilitate tumor cells to aberrantly increase and benefit from chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) in the PC. GB-induced CMA leads to major changes in PC immunomodulatory phenotypes, which, in turn, support cancer progression. In this review, we focus on the consequences of the GB-induced up-regulation of CMA activity in PCs and evaluate how manipulation of this process could offer new strategies to fight glioblastoma, increasing the availability of treatments for this cancer that escapes conventional therapies. We finally discuss the use of modified PCs unable to increase CMA in response to GB as a cell therapy alternative to minimize undesired off-target effects associated with a generalized CMA inhibition.
Keyphrases
- cell therapy
- papillary thyroid
- cell death
- high glucose
- diabetic rats
- induced apoptosis
- endoplasmic reticulum stress
- oxidative stress
- squamous cell
- signaling pathway
- cell cycle arrest
- heat shock protein
- lymph node metastasis
- endoplasmic reticulum
- resting state
- childhood cancer
- blood brain barrier
- functional connectivity
- subarachnoid hemorrhage
- single molecule
- stress induced