Involvement of autophagy in recombinant human arginase-induced cell apoptosis and growth inhibition of malignant melanoma cells

Recombinant human arginase (rhArg) has been developed for arginine derivation therapy of cancer and is currently in clinical trials for a variety of malignant solid tumors. In this study, we reported for the first time that rhArg could induce obvious autophagy in human melanoma cells; inhibition of autophagy by chloroquine (CQ) significantly increased rhArg-induced cell apoptosis and growth inhibition of A375 cells. A significant increase in...