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Erratum: Drug resistance mechanism of kinase inhibitors in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

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TABLE 1.

Summary of previous studies with the mechanisms of receptor tyrosine kinase drug resistance in HCC.

Drug Type of drug resistance Mechanism of drug resistance Reasons responsible References
sorafenib Primary drug resistance Mutation of EGFR Dysregulation of EGFR and HER-3 Hsieh et al. (2111)
Enrichment of CSC LSD1 and activation of β-catenin Lei et al. (2015)
EPHB2/TCF1/EPHB2/β-catenin Leung et al. (2021)
Acquired drug resistance compensatory activation of the PI3K/Akt pathway Activation of Akt Chen et al. (2011)
compensatory activation of the MAPK/ER K pathway Production of HGF and phosphorylation of c-Met Han et al. (2017)
EMT Ets- 1-GPX2 Gluck et al. (2019)
TNF-α/NF-κB/EMT Tan et al. (2019)
Metabolic reprogramming Activation of Rate limiting enzyme Li et al. (2017)
PI3K/Akt/HIF- 1α Zhang et al. (2020)
HDAC11/LKB1 Bi et al. (2021)
Autophagy The protective effect of autophagy Lu et al. (2018), Tong et al. (2018), Lin et al. (2020b)
The pro-death mechanism of autophagy Neophytou et al. (2021)
Non-coding RNAs MicroRNAs and LncRNAs Table 2
Evasion of apoptosis Deficiency of PUMA Dudgeon et al. (2012)
Highly expression of FGFR4 Repana and Ross (2015)
Dysregulation of cell cycle control E2F1-Rb-cyclin E1 Hsu et al. (2016)
Lenvatinib Primary drug resistance Activation of FGFR1/FGFR/VEGFR High levels of FGFR1 Yamauchi et al. (2020)
Enrichment of CSC CD73-SOX9 Ma et al. (2020)
Acquired drug resistance High levels of EGFR EGFR/PAK2/ERK5 Jin et al. (2021)
Loss of NF1 and DUSP9 PI3K/AKT and MAPK/ERK Lu et al. (2021)
Non-coding RNAs LncRNA MT1JP Yu et al. (2021)
LncRNA XIST Duan et al. (2022)
circMED27 Zhang et al. (2021)
regorafenib Acquired drug resistance EMT Pin1/Gli1/Snail/E-cadhe rin Wang et al. (2019)
SphK2 NF-κB and activation of STAT3 Shi et al. (2020)
Activation of TGF-β signaling Wnt/β-catenin Karabicici et al. (2021)
TOP2A Wnt/β-catenin Wang et al. (2022)
cabozantinib Primary drug resistance Low levels of c-Met C-Met Gao et al. (2021)

TABLE 2.

Previous studies that show the involvement of miRNAs in sorafenib resistance in HCC.

Name Effects on sorafenib resistance Target Reference
miR-622 Inhibiting KRAS Dietrich et al. (2018)
miR-7 Inhibiting TYRO3 Kabir et al. (2018)
miR-486-3p Inhibiting FGFR4/EGFR Ji et al. (2020)
miR-138-1-3p Inhibiting PAK5 Li et al. (2021)
miR-122 Inhibiting IGF-1R Xu et al. (2016)
miR-378a-3p Inhibiting IGF-1R Lin et al. (2020a)
miR-32-5p Promoting PTEN Fu et al. (2018)
miR-21 Promoting LncRNA SNHG1 Li et al. (2019)
miR-140-5p Inhibiting lncRNA MALAT1 Fan et al. (2020)

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