title: Endocytosis and cancer.
abstract: Eukaryotic cells use endocytosis to internalise plasma membrane, surface receptors and their ligands, viruses and various extracellular soluble molecules. Endocytosis has been regarded as a long-term mechanism of signal attenuation via receptor clearance from the cell surface. However, additional, and quite unexpected, functions for endocytosis have emerged, which, together with its attenuation function, project a central role for this process in cellular homeostasis and control of proliferation. Subversion of endocytic control is thus predicted to play a causative role in hyperproliferative conditions, first and foremost cancer.
authors.affiliation: IFOM, Istituto FIRC di Oncologia Molecolare, Via Adamello 16, 20139, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Simona
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Polo
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Pece
authors.forename: Pier Paolo
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Di Fiore
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D002455:Cell Division / Q000235:genetics; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D004705:Endocytosis / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D021381:Protein Transport / Q000502:physiology; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology; D025801:Ubiquitin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D018797:Cell Cycle Proteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D025801:Ubiquitin; D020794:Receptor Protein-Tyrosine Kinases