Necroptosis, tumor necrosis and tumorigenesis
Authors:Zheng-gang Liu1 and Delong Jiao1
1 Laboratory of Immune Cell Biology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute; National Institutes of Health, 37 Convent Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892.
Keywords:
necroptosis, tumor necroptosis, tumorigenesis, tumor metastasis, inflammation, and immunosuppression.
Abbreviations:
ADAM – A Disintegrin And Metalloproteases,
Casp-8 – caspase 8,
CXCL – (C-X-C motif) ligand,
IFN – interferon,
MAP – mitogen activated protein,
MDSC – myeloid-derived suppressor cell,
Mincle – macrophage inducible Ca2+-dependent lectin receptor,
MLKL – mixed lineage kinase domain-like,
PDA – pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma,
RHIM – RIP Homotypic Interaction Motif,
RIPK – receptor interacting protein kinase,
SAP-130 – 130 kDa Sin3-associated polypeptide,
sE-Cadherin – soluble E-Cadherin,
TLR – toll-like receptor,
TNF – tumor necrosis factor,
ZBP – Z-DNA- binding protein.
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Conflict of interest statement:
No conflict of interest exists.
Please cite this article as:
Zheng-gang Liu and Delong Jiao (2019). Necroptosis, tumor necrosis and tumorigenesis. Cell Stress 4(1): 1-8. doi: 10.15698/cst2020.01.208
© 2019 Liu and Jiao. This is an open-access article released under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows the unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are acknowledged.
Abstract:
Necroptosis, known as programmed necrosis, is a form of caspase-independent, finely regulated cell death with necrotic morphology. Tumor necrosis, foci of necrotic cell death, occurs in advanced solid tumors and is often associated with poor prognosis of cancer patients. While it is well documented that apoptosis plays a key role in tumor regression and the inactivation of apoptosis is pivotal to tumor development, the role of necroptosis in tumorigenesis is still not fully understood as recent studies have reported both tumor-promoting and tumor-suppressing effects of necroptosis. In this short review, we will discuss some recent studies about the role of necroptosis in tumorigenesis and speculate the implications of these findings in future research and potential novel cancer therapy targeting necroptosis.