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. 2021 Feb 12;10:614677. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2020.614677

Table 1.

Protein acting as pro-oncogenic or anti-oncogenic factors, validated or not as chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA) substrate and its role in different cancer types.

Cancer type Altered protein in cancer Normal function Activity in cancer KFERQ motif Protected from degradation Reference
Breast,
Ovarian, cancers
Fibrosarcome
Mutant P53 Apoptotic pathway Promoter Non canonical
Proved CMA substrate
Yes Vakifahmetoglu-norberg et al. (27)
Breast,
Prostate cancer
HSD17B4
17b- hydroxysteroid
dehydrogenase type 4
Fatty acid β-oxidation and steroid metabolism Promoter Non canonical
Not proved CMA substrate
Yes Huang et al. (28)
Acute Myeloid leukemia
erythroleukemia
HKII
Hexokinase II
Glucose metabolism Promoter Canonical
Proved CMA susbtrate
Yes Xia et al. (29)
Breast cancer MORC2
MORC family CW-type zinc finger 2
Lipogenesis and adipogenesis Promoter Canonical
Proved CMA susbtrate
Yes Yang et al. (30)
Pancreatic cancer IGF-IR
insulin-like growth factor 1 receptor
Proliferation and cell growth Promoter Non canonical
Not proved
Yes Xue et al. (31)
Hepatocellular carcinoma
Cervical cancer
HIF 1α
Hypoxia-inducible factor 1α
Hypoxia response
Cell cycle regulator
Promoter Non canonical
Proved CMA substrate
No Hubbi et al. (32)
Gastric cancer RND3
Rho Family GTPase 3
Anti-proliferative
Cell cycle regulator
Suppressor Canonical
Proved CMA substrate
No Zhou et al. (33)
Breast cancer ATG-5
Autophagy-related gene 5
Autophagy Suppressor Non canonical No Han et al. (34)
Colorectal SNX10/P21
Sorting nexin 10/protein 21
endosome/lysosome homeostasis/cell cycle regulator Suppressor Non canonical
Proved CMA substrate
No Zhang et al. (35)