Pharmacological modulation of nucleic acid sensors—therapeutic potential and persisting obstacles

C Vanpouille-Box, JA Hoffmann… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Nucleic acid sensors, primarily TLR and RLR family members, as well as cGAS–STING
signalling, play a critical role in the preservation of cellular and organismal homeostasis …

Quantifying the RNA cap epitranscriptome reveals novel caps in cellular and viral RNA

J Wang, BL Alvin Chew, Y Lai, H Dong… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Chemical modification of transcripts with 5′ caps occurs in all organisms. Here, we report a
systems-level mass spectrometry-based technique, CapQuant, for quantitative analysis of an …

Frog skin innate immune defences: sensing and surviving pathogens

JFA Varga, MP Bui-Marinos… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amphibian skin is a mucosal surface in direct and continuous contact with a microbially
diverse and laden aquatic and/or terrestrial environment. As such, frog skin is an important …

Oxidative stress‐related mechanisms in SARS‐CoV‐2 infections

J Wieczfinska, P Kleniewska… - Oxidative medicine and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic caused relatively high mortality in patients, especially in those
with concomitant diseases (ie, diabetes, hypertension, and chronic obstructive pulmonary …

Mechanisms and biomarkers of inflammatory endotypes in chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps

AI Klingler, WW Stevens, BK Tan, AT Peters… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) is a common
disease that is characterized by multiple inflammatory endotypes. However, the molecular …

Innate immunity and interferon in SARS-CoV-2 infection outcome

R Savan, M Gale - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Innate immunity and the actions of type I and III interferons (IFNs) are essential for protection
from SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Each is induced in response to infection and serves to …

Actin cytoskeleton remodeling primes RIG-I-like receptor activation

D Acharya, R Reis, M Volcic, GQ Liu, MK Wang… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The current dogma of RNA-mediated innate immunity is that sensing of immunostimulatory
RNA ligands is sufficient for the activation of intracellular sensors and induction of interferon …

A genome-wide optical pooled screen reveals regulators of cellular antiviral responses

RJ Carlson, MD Leiken, A Guna… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The infection of mammalian cells by viruses and innate immune responses to infection are
spatiotemporally organized processes. Cytosolic RNA sensors trigger nuclear translocation …

Gene therapy to enhance angiogenesis in chronic wounds

E Shaabani, M Sharifiaghdam, R Faridi-Majidi… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2022 - cell.com
Skin injuries and chronic non-healing wounds are one of the major global burdens on the
healthcare systems worldwide due to their difficult-to-treat nature, associated co-morbidities …

Comparative safety of mRNA COVID‐19 vaccines to influenza vaccines: A pharmacovigilance analysis using WHO international database

MS Kim, SY Jung, JG Ahn, SJ Park… - Journal of Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Two messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines developed by Pfizer‐BioNTech and Moderna are
being rolled out. Despite the high volume of emerging evidence regarding adverse events …