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NATURE REVIEWS CANCER
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 263-276Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3701
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- US National Institutes of Health (NIH) [CA027607, AG034906]
- Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, California [P30 CA014089]
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The glucose-regulated proteins (GRPs) are stress-inducible chaperones that mostly reside in the endoplasmic reticulum or the mitochondria. Recent advances show that the GRPs have functions that are distinct from those of the related heat shock proteins, and they can be actively translocated to other cellular locations and assume novel functions that control signalling, proliferation, invasion, apoptosis, inflammation and immunity. Mouse models further identified their specific roles in development, tumorigenesis, metastasis and angiogenesis. This Review describes their discovery and regulation, as well as their biological functions in cancer. Promising agents that use or target the GRPs are being developed, and their efficacy as anticancer therapeutics is also discussed.
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