{"title":"Targeting Skp2 by Tanshinone IIA overcomes chemoresistance in colorectal cancer.","authors":"Xin Dong, Kexin Li, Ruirui Wang, Baojun Wei, Yiling Li, Yu Zhang, Shengkai Huang, Guojing Wang, Quanquan Gao, Wei Li, Wei Cui","doi":"10.1007/s10565-025-10084-w","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Fluorouracil (5-Fu)-based chemotherapy is a first-line treatment option for advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). However, long-term use of 5-Fu often leads to chemoresistance, which limits its therapeutic efficacy, highlighting the need for developing novel regimens to improve CRC treatment outcomes. In this study, we found that Tan IIA inhibits aerobic glycolysis in CRC cells via suppressing Skp2/Akt/HK2 signaling axis and thereby overcomes 5-Fu resistance. Specifically, Tan IIA induces ubiquitination-mediated Skp2 degradation by attenuating the interaction between USP2 and Skp2. Moreover, the combination of Tan IIA with USP2 inhibitor ML364 overcomes 5-Fu resistance in vitro and xenograft mouse models. This study elucidates a novel mechanism of 5-Fu resistance and offers a promising combination treatment option for overcoming chemoresistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":9672,"journal":{"name":"Cell Biology and Toxicology","volume":"41 1","pages":"135"},"PeriodicalIF":5.9000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12500759/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cell Biology and Toxicology","FirstCategoryId":"3","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10565-025-10084-w","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CELL BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Fluorouracil (5-Fu)-based chemotherapy is a first-line treatment option for advanced colorectal cancer (CRC). However, long-term use of 5-Fu often leads to chemoresistance, which limits its therapeutic efficacy, highlighting the need for developing novel regimens to improve CRC treatment outcomes. In this study, we found that Tan IIA inhibits aerobic glycolysis in CRC cells via suppressing Skp2/Akt/HK2 signaling axis and thereby overcomes 5-Fu resistance. Specifically, Tan IIA induces ubiquitination-mediated Skp2 degradation by attenuating the interaction between USP2 and Skp2. Moreover, the combination of Tan IIA with USP2 inhibitor ML364 overcomes 5-Fu resistance in vitro and xenograft mouse models. This study elucidates a novel mechanism of 5-Fu resistance and offers a promising combination treatment option for overcoming chemoresistance.
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Cell Biology and Toxicology (CBT) is an international journal focused on clinical and translational research with an emphasis on molecular and cell biology, genetic and epigenetic heterogeneity, drug discovery and development, and molecular pharmacology and toxicology. CBT has a disease-specific scope prioritizing publications on gene and protein-based regulation, intracellular signaling pathway dysfunction, cell type-specific function, and systems in biomedicine in drug discovery and development. CBT publishes original articles with outstanding, innovative and significant findings, important reviews on recent research advances and issues of high current interest, opinion articles of leading edge science, and rapid communication or reports, on molecular mechanisms and therapies in diseases.
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