自噬是经典的细胞内能量代谢和自我更新机制,在生物发育和维持机体稳态过程中发挥重要作用。近年来的大量研究表明自噬与肿瘤密切相关,自噬可以调节肿瘤的形成、增殖、转移以及能量代谢等诸多方面。同时,以调节自噬活性为理论依据的抗肿瘤药物已应用于临床治疗,通过改善自噬活性而抑制肿瘤已经成为肿瘤治疗的新思路。本文总结概述了近年来自噬相关的调节机制、自噬与肿瘤的关系及其在肿瘤治疗中的应用。
Autophagy is a classical regulatory mechanism of energy metabolism and self-update system in the maintenance of the intracellular homeostasis and cell development. Autophagy has been recently found to play a role in tumor development. Autophagy regulates tumor formation, proliferation, metastasis, and metabolism. At the same time, the anticancer drugs formed with autophagic mediators have been used in the treatment, which suggested that improving autophagy activity to inhibit tumor has become a new way for cancer treatment of cancer patients. This article gives an overview of the regulatory mechanism of autophagy, the relationship between autophagy and tumor, and tumor therapy by targeting autophagy.