The multi-factorial nature of clinical multidrug resistance in cancer

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Curative cancer therapy remains a major challenge particularly in cancers displaying multidrug resistance (MDR). The MDR phenotype is characterized by cross-resistance to a wide array of anticancer drugs harboring distinct structures and mechanisms of action. The multiple factors involved in mediating MDR may include host factors, tumor factors as well as tumor-host interactions. Among the host factors are genetic variants and drug-drug interactions. The plethora of tumor factors involves decreased drug uptake primarily via impaired influx transporters, increased drug efflux predominantly due to the overexpression of MDR efflux transporters of the ATP-binding cassette superfamily or due to drug efflux mediated by extracellular vesicles (EVs) or drug-loaded lysosomes undergoing exocytosis, deregulation of cell death mechanisms (i.e. anti-apoptotic modalities), enhanced DNA damage repair, epigenetic alterations and/or deregulation of microRNAs. The intratumor heterogeneity and dynamics, along with cancer stem cell plasticity, are important tumor factors. Among the tumor-host interactions are the role of the tumor microenvironment, selective pressure of various stressor conditions and agents, acidic pH and the intracellular transfer of traits mediated by EVs. The involvement of these diverse factors in MDR, highlights the need for precision medicine and real-time personalized treatments of individual cancer patients. In this review, written by a group of researchers from COST Action STRATAGEM "New diagnostic and therapeutic tools against multidrug resistant tumors", we aim to bring together these multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary features of MDR cancers. Importantly, it is becoming increasingly clear that deciphering the molecular mechanisms underlying anticancer drug resistance, will pave the way towards the development of novel precision medicine treatment modalities that are able to surmount distinct and well-defined mechanisms of anticancer drug resistance.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:46

Enthalten in:

Drug resistance updates : reviews and commentaries in antimicrobial and anticancer chemotherapy - 46(2019) vom: 15. Sept., Seite 100645

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Assaraf, Yehuda G [VerfasserIn]
Brozovic, Anamaria [VerfasserIn]
Gonçalves, Ana Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Jurkovicova, Dana [VerfasserIn]
Linē, Aija [VerfasserIn]
Machuqueiro, Miguel [VerfasserIn]
Saponara, Simona [VerfasserIn]
Sarmento-Ribeiro, Ana Bela [VerfasserIn]
Xavier, Cristina P R [VerfasserIn]
Vasconcelos, M Helena [VerfasserIn]

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Acidic environment
Antineoplastic Agents
Cancer
Cancer patients
Cell death mechanisms
Clinical multidrug resistance
DNA damage response and repair
Drug compartmentalization
Drug efflux
Drug-drug interactions
Epigenetics
Extracellular vesicles
Genetic variants
Intratumor heterogeneity and dynamics
Journal Article
MicroRNAs
Precision medicine
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review
Selection pressures
Stem cell plasticity
Tumor microenvironment

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Date Completed 30.03.2020

Date Revised 30.03.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.drup.2019.100645

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM301925755