The Role of Neuropeptide-Stimulated cAMP-EPACs Signalling in Cancer Cells

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Neuropeptides are autocrine and paracrine signalling factors and mainly bind to G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) to trigger intracellular secondary messenger release including adenosine 3′, 5′-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP), thus modulating cancer progress in different kind of tumours. As one of the downstream effectors of cAMP, exchange proteins directly activated by cAMP (EPACs) play dual roles in cancer proliferation and metastasis. More evidence about the relationship between neuropeptides and EPAC pathways have been proposed for their potential role in cancer development; hence, this review focuses on the role of neuropeptide/GPCR system modulation of cAMP/EPACs pathways in cancers. The correlated downstream pathways between neuropeptides and EPACs in cancer cell proliferation, migration, and metastasis is discussed to glimmer the direction of future research.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): MOLEFW

Title: Molecules

Abbreviated Title: Molecules

Publisher: MDPI AG

ISSN (Electronic): 1420-3049

Publication date Created: January 2022

Publication date (Electronic): January 05 2022

Volume: 27

Issue: 1

Page: 311

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DOI: 10.3390/molecules27010311

SO-VID: dafab0c1-c02b-4b71-9f98-a1cc6c972c37

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