Cholesterol metabolism in cancer: mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

B Huang, B Song, C Xu - Nature metabolism, 2020 - nature.com
Cholesterol metabolism produces essential membrane components as well as metabolites
with a variety of biological functions. In the tumour microenvironment, cell-intrinsic and cell …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid metabolism in oncology: why it matters, how to research, and how to treat

Y Matsushita, H Nakagawa, K Koike - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Metabolic reprogramming is gaining attentions as a hallmark of cancers.
However, lipid metabolism has been difficult to analyze due to technical problems. In recent …

Hydroxycholesterol substitution in ionizable lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery to T cells

SK Patel, MM Billingsley, C Frazee, X Han… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Delivery of nucleic acids, such as mRNA, to immune cells has become a major focus in the
past decade with ionizable lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) emerging as a clinically-validated …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting human Acyl-CoA: cholesterol acyltransferase as a dual viral and T cell metabolic checkpoint

NM Schmidt, PAC Wing, MO Diniz, LJ Pallett… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Determining divergent metabolic requirements of T cells, and the viruses and tumours they
fail to combat, could provide new therapeutic checkpoints. Inhibition of acyl-CoA: cholesterol …

[HTML][HTML] GABA regulates release of inflammatory cytokines from peripheral blood mononuclear cells and CD4+ T cells and is immunosuppressive in type 1 diabetes

AK Bhandage, Z Jin, SV Korol, Q Shen, Y Pei… - …, 2018 - thelancet.com
The neurotransmitter γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is an extracellular signaling molecule in
the brain and in pancreatic islets. Here, we demonstrate that GABA regulates cytokine …

Immunometabolic function of cholesterol in cardiovascular disease and beyond

L Yvan-Charvet, F Bonacina… - Cardiovascular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Inflammation represents the driving feature of many diseases, including atherosclerosis,
cancer, autoimmunity and infections. It is now established that metabolic processes shape a …

Immune-resistant mechanisms in cancer immunotherapy

Y Kawakami, S Ohta, MA Sayem, N Tsukamoto… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) such as PD-1/PD-L1 antibodies (Abs) and CTLA4 Abs
and T cell-based adoptive cell therapies are effective for patients with various cancers …

[HTML][HTML] Modulating cholesterol metabolism via ACAT1 knockdown enhances anti-B-cell lymphoma activities of CD19-specific chimeric antigen receptor T cells by …

Q Su, J Yao, MA Farooq, I Ajmal, Y Duan, C He, X Hu… - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
CD19-specific CAR-T immunotherapy has been extensively studied for the treatment of B-
cell lymphoma. Recently, cholesterol metabolism has emerged as a modulator of T …

[HTML][HTML] When cancer drug resistance meets metabolomics (bulk, single-cell and/or spatial): progress, potential, and perspective

Z Zhang, C Bao, L Jiang, S Wang, K Wang, C Lu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Resistance to drug treatment is a critical barrier in cancer therapy. There is an unmet need to
explore cancer hallmarks that can be targeted to overcome this resistance for therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Mevalonate metabolism in immuno-oncology

G Gruenbacher, M Thurnher - Frontiers in Immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Immuno-oncology not only refers to the multifaceted relationship between our immune
system and a developing cancer but also includes therapeutic approaches that harness the …