“…Besides, it has been reported that salinomycin, another polyether ionophore, can inhibit autophagic flux in hepatocellular carcinoma cells and breast cancer stem-like/progenitor cells (Klose, Stankov, Kleine, Ramackers, Panayotova-Dimitrova, Jager, Klempnauer, Winkler, Bektas, Behrens and Vondran 2014, Yue, Hamai, Tonelli, Bauvy, Nicolas, Tharinger, Codogno and Mehrpour 2013). Particularly, salinomycin has been found to suppress autophagic flux, triggering necrosis in glioblastoma cells (Xipell, Gonzalez-Huarriz, Martinez de Irujo, Garcia-Garzon, Lang, Jiang, Fueyo, Gomez-Manzano and Alonso 2016). Here, we found that maduramicin also blocked autophagic flux with accumulation of both LC3-II and p62/SQSTM1 (Fig.…”