Inhibition of acetylation, is it enough to fight cancer?

Crit Rev Oncol Hematol

Department of Toxicology, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute, Ave. IPN 2508, San Pedro Zacatenco, Mexico City, 07360, Mexico. Electronic address:

Published: August 2022

Acetylation is a reversible post-translational modification (PTM) that regulates important cellular processes such as proliferation, DNA damage repair and cell cycle progress. When the balance is broken, these processes are affected and lead to carcinogenesis. Therefore, the study of acetylation has led to its proposal as a target pathway for anticancer therapies. Here, we discuss how acetylation regulates the cell cycle process, how it is modified in cancer cells and which are the key proteins in the regulation of apoptosis induction in cancer cells that can become targets to fight cancer. The inhibition of acetylation has been proposed as an emergent therapy against cancer, compounds such as 6-Penthadecyl salicylic acid, Curcumin, Garcinol and C646, among others, are currently studied because they show antitumor activity related to the inhibition of acetylation. Recently, the use of the acetylomics research tool has improved the study of acetylation as a target against tumor cells, but still the thresholds between promoting DNA instability and regulating gene expression by acetylation are not clear in many cell types.

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