Nature Communications (May 2019)

Targeting lonidamine to mitochondria mitigates lung tumorigenesis and brain metastasis

  • Gang Cheng,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Jing Pan,
  • Yongik Lee,
  • Olivier Ouari,
  • Micael Hardy,
  • Monika Zielonka,
  • Charles R. Myers,
  • Jacek Zielonka,
  • Katherine Weh,
  • Andrew C. Chang,
  • Guoan Chen,
  • Laura Kresty,
  • Balaraman Kalyanaraman,
  • Ming You

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10042-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Brain metastases are a major reason for lung cancer mortality. Here, the authors modify lonidamine to target mitochondria, and show its therapeutic efficacy in inhibiting lung cancer brain metastasis by inducing autophagic cell death in cancer cells.