Lipid raft involvement in signal transduction in cancer cell survival,cell death and metastasis |
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| Authors: | Borui Li Yi Qin Xianjun Yu Xiaowu Xu Wenyan Yu |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Pancreatic Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai China ; 2. Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai China ; 3. Shanghai Pancreatic Cancer Institute, Shanghai China ; 4. Pancreatic Cancer Institute, Fudan University, Shanghai China |
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| Abstract: | Lipid rafts are cholesterol‐ and sphingolipid‐enriched specialized membrane domains within the plasma membrane. Lipid rafts regulate the density and activity of signal receptors by compartmentalizing them, promoting signalling cascades that play important roles in the survival, death and metastasis of cancer cells. In this review, we emphasize the current concept initially postulated by F. Mollinedo and C. Gajate on the importance of lipid rafts in cancer survival, death and metastasis by describing representative signalling pathways, including the IGF system and the PI3K/AKT, Fas/CD95, VEGF/VEGFR2 and CD44 signalling pathways, and we also discuss the concept of CASMER (cluster of apoptotic signalling molecule‐enriched rafts), coined, originally introduced and further advanced by F. Mollinedo and C. Gajate in the period 2005–2010. Then, we summarize relevant research progress and suggest that lipid rafts play important roles in the survival, death and metastasis of cancer cells, making them promising targets for cancer therapy. |
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| Keywords: | CD44, Fas/CD95, IGF‐ I/PI3K/Akt signalling, lipid rafts, VEGF/VEGFR2 |
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