Calcium, a Cell Cycle Commander, Drives Colon Cancer Cell Diffpoptosis

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• 作者：Ahmed A. Abd-Rabou
• 关键词：Calcium ; Cell cycle ; Differentaion ; Apoptosis ; Colon cancer
• 刊名：Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：32
• 期：1
• 页码：9-18
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• 刊物主题：Biochemistry, general; Microbiology; Chemistry/Food Science, general; Pathology;
• 出版者：Springer India
• ISSN：0974-0422
• 卷排序：32

文摘

The story of the cell commonder, calcium, reaches into all corners of the cell and controls cell proliferation, differentiation, function, and even death. The calcium-driven eukaryotic revolution is one of the great turning points in the life history, happened about two billion years later when it was converted from a dangerous killer that had to be kept out of cell into the cell master which drives the cell. This review article will take the readers to a tour of tissues chosen to best show the calcium’s many faces (proliferator, differentiator, and killer). The reader will first see calcium and its many helpers, such as the calcium-binding signaler protein calmodulin, directing the key events of the cell cycle. Then the tour will move onto the colon to show calcium driving the proliferation of progenitor cells, then the differentiation and ultimately the programmed death of their progeny. Moreover, the reader will learn of the striking disabling and bypassing of calcium-dependent control mechanisms during carcinogenesis. Finally, recommendations should be taken from the underlying mechanisms through which calcium masters the presistance, progression, and even apoptosis of colorectal cancer cells. Thus, this could be of great interest for designing of chemoprevention protocols.