Research progress on mechanism of drug resistance induced by autophagy mediated by Hippo/YAP and PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world.Its formation is a complex process,and the specific mechanism of its formation hasn't been cleared yet.Due to the fact that most HCC patients are diagnosed in the late stage,and they often lose good surgical opportunities.The emergence of targeted drugs has brought new hope to current HCC patients and can also serve as one of the measures for postoperative treatment,playing a huge role in treating HCC.Sorafenib is the first targeted drug used to treat HCC.It can induce apoptosis of liver tumor cells and inhibit proliferation and angiogenesis of liver tumor cells,so it can improve the survival rate of some patients.However,according to current research,50%-60%of HCC patients experience a decrease in sensitivity to the drug.It is mainly because Sorafenib will inhibit relevant sig-naling pathways in vivo after using,which leads to the occurrence of drug resistance,so further exploring the mechanism of Sorafenib resistance and reversing Sorafenib resistance have extremely important clinical value for improving the prognosis of liver cancer treatment.In recent years,many scholars have devoted themselves to studying the close relationship between Sorafenib me-diated autophagy and drug resistance through Hippo/YAP and PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathways.And exploring the molecu-lar mechanisms of drug resistance has led to significant development in this field.Therefore,this article mainly discusses the rela-tionship between Hippo/YAP and PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathways and autophagy,as well as the mechanism of drug resis-tance mediated by them,so as to provide a reliable Scientific theory basis for drug resistance of Sorafenib in the treatment of liver cancer.
SorafenibHippo/YAP signaling pathwayPI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling pathwayAutophagyHepatocellu-lar carcinomaMechansim of drug resistance