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Table 3 Compounds inducing pyroptosis signal pathways in cancers

From: The emerging role of pyroptosis in pediatric cancers: from mechanism to therapy

Classification

Compounds

Cancer types

Mechanisms of pyroptosis induction

References

Chemotherapy drugs

Decitabine/azacitidine

MDS/AML

Caspase-3/GSDME

[62, 63]

Dasatinib

Neuroblastoma/Lung cancer

Caspase-3/GSDME

[38]

PTX/cisplatin

Lung cancer

Caspase-3/GSDME

[64]

DOX, Actinomycin-D, Bleomycin, Topotecan

Lung cancer

Caspase-3/GSDME

[62]

Lobaplatin

Colon cancer

ROS/JNK/caspase-3/GSDME

[65]

DOX

Melanoma

eEF-2K/caspase-3/ GSDME

[66]

Natural products

Dioscin

Osteosarcoma

Caspase-3/GSDME

[33]

Galangin

Brain tumors

GSDME

[67]

Anthocyanin

OSCC

NLRP3/caspase-1/GSDMD

[68]

Sesamin

Lymphoma

NLRP3/caspase-1

[69]

Reagents

Iridium (III) complexes

Several cancers*

Caspase-3/GSDME

[70]

miRNA-214

Brain tumors

Caspase-1

[71]

GSDMD-N packaged in rAAVs

Brain tumors

GSDMD

[72]

BRAFi/MEKi

Melanoma

GSDME/ HMGB1

[73]

  1. *indicates lung carcinoma, gastric adenocarcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, cervical cancer, and melanoma; AML: acute myeloid leukemia; BRAFi: BRAF inhibitor; DOX: doxorubicin; eEF-2K: eukaryotic elongation factor-2 kinase; GSDMD: gasdermin D; GSDME: gasdermin E; HMGB1: high mobility group protein box 1; JNK: c-Jun N-terminal kinase; MDS: myelodysplastic syndromes; MEKi: MEK inhibitor; NLRP3: nod-like receptor protein 3; OSCC: oral squamous cell carcinoma; PTX: paclitaxel; ROS: reactive oxygen species