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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Semin Cancer Biol. 2015 Apr 28;35(0):S78–S103. doi: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2015.03.001

Table 1.

Relationships between resistance to apoptosis targets and cancer hallmarks.

Targets related to resistance to
apoptosis
Inhibit Bcl-2 Inhibit Mcl-1 Activate tumor autophagy Activate tumor necrosis Inhibit hsp90 Inhibit proteasome Inhibit nuclear
exporter CRM1
Other cancer hallmarks
Genomic instability 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sustained proliferative signaling + [360,361] + [32,362] +/− [363,364] +/− [365,366] + [367,368] + [369,370] +
[141]
Tumor promoting inflammation + [371,372] + [373,374] [375,376] +/− [377,378] + [379,380] + [381383] 0
Evasion of Anti–growth Signaling + [384386] + [237,387] + [388] + [389] + [390,391] + [392,393] +
Replicative immortality +/− [395,396] + [362] +/− [397399] +/− [400] + [401,402] + [403,404] [394]
Dysregulated metabolism + [405407] + [408410] + [411413] + [414417] + [418420] + [421] 0
Immune system evasion + [422] + [423] 0 + [424] 0 + [425427] 0
Angiogenesis + [428] + [429] +/− [430] [431] + [432] + [433] +
[434]
Tissue invasion and metastasis + [435] + [436] + [437,438] + [439] - [440,441] + [442] +
[443]
Tumor microenvironment + [444,445] + [444] +/− [446,447] [448] + [449] + [450] +
[451]

Prioritized targets were evaluated for known effects in other cancer hallmark areas. Targets that were found to have complementary, anti-carcinogenic actions reported in another hallmark area were indicated with “+”, while targets that were found to have pro-carcinogenic actions in another hallmark area were indicated with “-”. In instances where reports on relevant actions in other hallmark areas were mixed (i.e., reports showing both anti-carcinogenic potential and pro-carcinogenic potential), the symbol “+/−” was used. Finally, in instances where no literature support was found to document the relevance of a target in a particular aspect of cancer‘s biology, we documented this as “0”. These cross-hallmark relationships are reported in the upper rows of the table.