title: Major Physiological Signaling Pathways in the Regulation of Cell Proliferation and Survival.
abstract: Multiple signaling pathways regulate cell proliferation and survival and are therefore important for maintaining homeostasis of development. The balance between cell growth and death is achieved through orchestrated signal transduction pathways mediated by complex functional interactions between signaling axes, among which, PI3K/Akt and Ras/MAPK as well as JAK/STAT play a dominant role in promoting cell proliferation, differentiation, and survival. In clinical cancer therapies, drug resistance is the major challenge that occurs in almost all targeted therapeutic strategies. Recent advances in research have suggested that the intrinsic pro-survival signaling crosstalk is the driving force in acquired resistance to a targeted therapy, which may be abolished by interfering with the cross-reacting network.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology, Zhejiang University, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Hangzhou, 310058, China. tanghuifang@zju.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Huifang
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, 4031, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Gongda
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Xue
mesh_terms: D002453:Cell Cycle; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D002470:Cell Survival; D019008:Drug Resistance, Neoplasm; D006801:Humans; D053612:Janus Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D020935:MAP Kinase Signaling System; D058990:Molecular Targeted Therapy; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000502:physiology; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt / Q000502:physiology; D050791:STAT Transcription Factors / Q000502:physiology; D015398:Signal Transduction; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D053612:Janus Kinases; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D051057:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt; D050791:STAT Transcription Factors; D058570:TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases
keywords: Apoptosis; Cell cycle; Drug resistance; JAK/STAT; Lung cancer; Melanoma; Proliferation; Ras/MAPK; Signaling crosstalk; mTOR/PI3K/Akt