Biological Functions and Molecular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Tigecycline in the Treatment of Cancers

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Saima Kausar¹  Jie Yang¹  Lin Li¹  MuhammadNadeem Abbas¹  Li Tan¹  Zhen Dong¹  Hongjuan Cui¹ 

[1] State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, Institute of Sericulture and Systems Biology, Southwest University, Beibei, Chongqing 400716, China;

关键词: antibiotics;    tigecycline;    cell cycle arrest;    autophagy;    mitochondrial translation;    OxPhos;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijms20143577

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

As an FDA-approved drug, glycylcycline tigecycline has been used to treat complicated microbial infections. However, recent studies in multiple hematologic and malignant solid tumors reveal that tigecycline treatment induces cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, autophagy and oxidative stress. In addition, tigecycline also inhibits mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, cell proliferation, migration, invasion and angiogenesis. Importantly, combinations of tigecycline with chemotherapeutic or targeted drugs such as venetoclax, doxorubicin, vincristine, paclitaxel, cisplatin, and imatinib, have shown to be promising strategies for cancer treatment. Mechanism of action studies reveal that tigecycline leads to the inhibition of mitochondrial translation possibly through interacting with mitochondrial ribosome. Meanwhile, this drug also interferes with several other cell pathways/targets including MYC, HIFs, PI3K/AKT or AMPK-mediated mTOR, cytoplasmic p21 ^CIP1/Waf1, and Wnt/β-catenin signaling. These evidences indicate that antibiotic tigecycline is a promising drug for cancer treatment alone or in combination with other anticancer drugs. This review summarizes the biological function of tigecycline in the treatment of tumors and comprehensively discusses its mode of action.

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