Cancer Letters
Volume 297, Issue 1 , Pages 101-108 , 1 November 2010

DJ-1, a cancer and Parkinson’s disease associated protein, regulates autophagy through JNK pathway in cancer cells

  • Haigang Ren

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Molecular Neuropathology, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, People’s Republic of China
    • School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan 621010, People’s Republic of China
  • ,
  • Kai Fu

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Molecular Neuropathology, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, People’s Republic of China
  • ,
  • Chenchen Mu

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Molecular Neuropathology, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, People’s Republic of China
  • ,
  • Bin Li

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Molecular Neuropathology, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, People’s Republic of China
  • ,
  • Dan Wang

      Affiliations

    • School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang, Sichuan 621010, People’s Republic of China
  • ,
  • Guanghui Wang

      Affiliations

    • Laboratory of Molecular Neuropathology, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230027, People’s Republic of China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Neurobiology, School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, 433 Huangshan Road, Hefei, Anhui 230027, People’s Republic of China. Tel./fax: +86 551 3607058.

Received 5 February 2010 ,Revised 30 March 2010 ,Accepted 4 May 2010.

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PII: S0304-3835(10)00254-5

doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2010.05.001

Cancer Letters
Volume 297, Issue 1 , Pages 101-108 , 1 November 2010