Autophagy and Apoptosis Specific Knowledgebases-guided Systems Pharmacology Drug Research.

Journal: Current cancer drug targets
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Autophagy and apoptosis are the basic physiological processes in cells that clean up aged and mutant cellular components or even the entire cells. Both autophagy and apoptosis are disrupted in most major diseases such as cancer and neurological disorders. Recently, increasing attention has been paid to understand the crosstalk between autophagy and apoptosis due to their tightly synergetic or opposite functions in several pathological processes.

Authors

  • Peihao Fan
    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
  • Nanyi Wang
    School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, 335 Sutherland Drive, 206 Salk Pavilion, PA, United States.
  • Lirong Wang
    Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; NIDA National Center of Excellence for Computational Drug Abuse Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA; Drug Discovery Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: liw30@pitt.edu.
  • Xie X-Q
    School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, 335 Sutherland Drive, 206 Salk Pavilion, PA, United States.