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Fig. 1 | Journal of Hematology & Oncology

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From: Therapeutic strategies of drug repositioning targeting autophagy to induce cancer cell death: from pathophysiology to treatment

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ER stress caused by disruption of autophagy–lysosome flux or conventional chemotherapy confers synergistic therapeutic effects. While p62/SQSTM1 is downregulated during autophagy–lysosome flux, lipidated form of LC-3 (LC-3II) accumulates (lower panel). Obstruction of autophagy flux can be pharmacologically induced by chloroquine, which results in ubiquitination, p62 activation, and LC3-II accumulation (upper panel). Impairment of the autophagy–lysosome pathway induces apoptosis mainly via excessive ER stress. On the other hand, TMZ is an alkylating agent that induces formation of O6-methylguanine in DNA, which in turn induces mismatch pair with thymine during the following cycle of DNA replication. Thus, chloroquine and TMZ exhibit the synergistic therapeutic effect for cancer cells

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