Research progress on necroptosis regulation mechanism and its clinical relevance / 中国实验血液学杂志

ABSTRACT

Necroptosis is a caspase-independent programmed cell death, its regulation, induction and blocking mechanism are a complex process involving in a series of molecular expression and regulation. The studies found that the necroptosis is not only involved in the physiological regulation mechanism, but also directly correlated to the occurrence, development and final outcome of some necrotic diseases, such as neurodegenerative diseases, ischemic disease, inflammation and viral infection. Moreover, the studies on multidrug-resistant tumor cell line demonstrated that necroptotic induction agents possess excellent "broad-spectrum" to escape the multidrug resistance. Therefore, exploration of the signaling pathways, physical characteristics, clinical relevance of necroptosis may provide new prospects for molecular target therapy and drug discovery of tumours. This review summarizes the research progress on possible regulation mechanism of necroptosis, physiologic characteristics and relation of necroptosis with clinical diseases and multi-drug resistance.