| Literature DB >> 26319899 |
Xia Xu1, Shoujie Chai1, Pingli Wang1, Chenchen Zhang1, Yiming Yang1, Ying Yang1, Kai Wang2.
Abstract
Aldehyde dehydrogenases (ALDHs), as essential regulators of aldehyde metabolism in the human body, protect organisms from damage induced by active aldehydes. Given their roles in different cancer types, ALDHs have been evaluated as potential prognostic markers of cancer. ALDHs exhibit high activity in cancer stem cells (CSCs) and may serve as markers of CSCs. Moreover, studies indicated that ALDHs and their regulated retinoic acid, reactive oxygen species and reactive aldehydes metabolism were strongly related with various properties of CSCs. Besides, recent research evidences have demonstrated the transcriptional and post-translational regulation of ALDH expression and activation in CSCs. Thus, this review focuses on the function and regulation of ALDHs in CSCs, particularly ALDH1A1 and ALDH1A3.Entities:
Keywords: Aldehyde dehydrogenase; Cancer stem cell; Metabolic substrate; Signal transduction
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Year: 2015 PMID： 26319899 DOI： 10.1016/j.canlet.2015.08.018
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Cancer Lett ISSN： 0304-3835 Impact factor: 8.679