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Table 4 Targeting cell death pathways for cancer therapy

From: Epigenetic regulation of diverse cell death modalities in cancer: a focus on pyroptosis, ferroptosis, cuproptosis, and disulfidptosis

Drugs

Title

Pathways

Cancer

Death

FL118

Pyroptosis is involved in the inhibitory effect of FL118 on growth and metastasis in colorectal cancer

NLRP3-ASC-Caspase-1

Colorectal cancer

Pyroptosis

Simvastatin

Simvastatin Suppresses Proliferation and Migration in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer via Pyroptosis

NLRP3-caspase-1-IL-1β and IL-18

Non-small cell lung cancer

Pyroptosis

Nanotoxin

A self-assembling CXCR4-targeted pyroptosis nanotoxin for melanoma therapy

CXCR4-caspase-3-GSDME

Melanoma

Pyroptosis

Erastin

Nedd4 ubiquitylates VDAC2/3 to suppress erastin-induced ferroptosis in melanoma

FOXM1-Nedd4-VDAC2/3

Melanoma

Ferroptosis

Erastin

CAF secreted miR−522 suppresses ferroptosis and promotes acquired chemo-resistance in gastric cancer

Exo-miR−522 and ALOX15

Gastric cancer

Ferroptosis

Erastin

Deubiquitinase USP35 modulates ferroptosis in lung cancer via targeting ferroportin

USP35-FPN

Lung cancer

Ferroptosis

Sorafenib and erastin

Ferroptosis inducers enhanced cuproptosis induced by copper ionophores in primary liver cancer

FDX1-GSH

Liver cancer

Ferroptosis

Sulfasalazine

CISD2 inhibition overcomes resistance to sulfasalazine-induced ferroptotic cell death in head and neck cancer

CISD2 -lipid ROS

Neck cancer

Ferroptosis

Sorafenib

Increased ATF2 expression predicts poor prognosis and inhibits sorafenib-induced ferroptosis in gastric cancer

ATF2-HSPH1-SL7A11

Gastric cancer

Ferroptosis

Bortezomib

The cuproptosis-related signature associated with the tumor environment and prognosis of patients with glioma

IGFBP2

Glioma

Cuproptosis

Trientine tetrahydrochloride, penicillamine

Trientine tetrahydrochloride versus penicillamine for maintenance therapy in Wilson disease (CHELATE): a randomised, open-label, non-inferiority, phase 3 trial

Inhibitors of acetyltransferases, copper ion concentration

Wilson disease

Cuproptosis

Triethylenetetramine (trientine)

Triethylenetetramine (trientine): a caloric restriction mimetic with a new mode of action

Inhibitors of acetyltransferases, copper ion concentration

Wilson disease

Cuproptosis

GOx@[Cu(tz)]

An Enzyme-Engineered Nonporous Copper(I) Coordination Polymer Nanoplatform for Cuproptosis-Based Synergistic Cancer Therapy

SAT1-AcCoA

Bladder cancer

Cuproptosis