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- Title
The Interplay of Tumor Stroma and Translational Factors in Endometrial Cancer.
- Authors
Sobočan, Monika; Smolle, Maria Anna; Schatz, Christoph; Haybaeck, Johannes
- Abstract
Endometrial cancer (EC) is a common gynecologic malignancy which continues to have a poor prognosis in advanced stages due to current therapeutic limitations. A significant mechanism of chemoresistance in EC has been shown to also be the enhancement of epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) and the subsequent obtainment of stem cell-like characteristics of EC. Current evidence on EMT in EC however fails to explain the relationship leading to an EMT signaling enhancement. Our review therefore focuses on understanding eukaryotic translation initiation factors (eIFs) as key regulators of the translational process in enhancing EMT and subsequently impacting higher chemoresistance of EC. We identified pathways connected to the development of a microenvironment for EMT, inducers of the process specifically related to estrogen receptors as well as their interplay with eIFs. In the future, investigation elucidating the translational biology of EC in EMT may therefore focus on the signaling between protein kinase RNA-like ER kinase (PERK) and eIF2alpha as well as eIF3B.
- Subjects
PROTEIN metabolism; CELL differentiation; CELLULAR signal transduction; DRUG resistance in cancer cells; ESTROGEN receptors; ENDOMETRIAL tumors
- Publication
Cancers, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 8, p2074
- ISSN
2072-6694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cancers12082074