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ReviewAdvances in cancer research2024

Redox pathways in melanoma.

Jie Zhang, Zhi-Wei Ye, Danyelle M Townsend, Kenneth D Tew

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Review in Advances in cancer research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Jie ZhangDepartment of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States. Electronic address: zhajie@musc.edu.
Zhi-Wei YeDepartment of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Danyelle M TownsendDepartment of Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.
Kenneth D TewDepartment of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, United States.

Funding

NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM103542
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cases of melanoma are doubling every 12 years, and in stages III and IV, the disease is associated with high mortality rates concomitant with unresectable metastases and therapeutic drug resistance. Despite some advances in treatment success, there is a marked need to understand more about the pathology of the disease. The present review provides an overview of how melanoma cells use and modulate redox pathways to facilitate thiol homeostasis and melanin biosynthesis and describes plausible redox targets that may improve therapeutic approaches in managing malignant disease and metastasis. Melanotic melanoma has some unique characteristics. Making melanin requires a considerable dedication of cellular energy resources and utilizes glutathione and glutathione transferases in certain steps in the biosynthetic pathway. Melanin is an antioxidant but is also functionally important in hematopoiesis and influential in various aspects of host immune responses, giving it unique characteristics. Together with other redox traits that are specific to melanoma, a discussion of possible therapeutic approaches is also provided.

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MelaninsMelanomaOxidation-ReductionAnimalsGlutathioneHumansSignal TransductionGlutathioneMelaninsGlutathioneMelaninMelanomaMicrosomal glutathione transferaseRedox homeostasis

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PMID39069367
PMCPMC11938169

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