Regulated cell death (RCD) in cancer: key pathways and targeted therapies

F Peng, M Liao, R Qin, S Zhu, C Peng, L Fu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Regulated cell death (RCD), also well-known as programmed cell death (PCD), refers to the
form of cell death that can be regulated by a variety of biomacromolecules, which is …

Interleukins in cancer: from biology to therapy

D Briukhovetska, J Dörr, S Endres, P Libby… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Interleukins and associated cytokines serve as the means of communication for innate and
adaptive immune cells as well as non-immune cells and tissues. Thus, interleukins have a …

Diverging inflammasome signals in tumorigenesis and potential targeting

R Karki, TD Kanneganti - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Inflammasomes are molecular platforms that assemble upon sensing various intracellular
stimuli. Inflammasome assembly leads to activation of caspase 1, thereby promoting the …

A microbiota-modulated checkpoint directs immunosuppressive intestinal T cells into cancers

M Fidelle, C Rauber, C Alves Costa Silva, AL Tian… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Antibiotics (ABX) compromise the efficacy of programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1)
blockade in cancer patients, but the mechanisms underlying their immunosuppressive …

Blocking IL-1β reverses the immunosuppression in mouse breast cancer and synergizes with anti–PD-1 for tumor abrogation

I Kaplanov, Y Carmi, R Kornetsky… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Interleukin-1β (IL-1β) is abundant in the tumor microenvironment, where this cytokine can
promote tumor growth, but also antitumor activities. We studied IL-1β during early tumor …

IL-1 family members in cancer; two sides to every story

KJ Baker, A Houston, E Brint - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The IL-1 family of cytokines currently comprises of seven ligands with pro-inflammatory
activity (IL-1α and IL-1β, IL-18, IL-33, IL-36α, IL-36β, IL-36γ) as well as two ligands with anti …

Involvement of inflammasomes in tumor microenvironment and tumor therapies

Z Zhang, X Li, Y Wang, Y Wei, X Wei - Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Inflammasomes are macromolecular platforms formed in response to damage-associated
molecular patterns (DAMPs) and pathogen-associated molecular patterns, whose formation …

NLRP3 inflammasome-mediated cytokine production and pyroptosis cell death in breast cancer

SS Faria, S Costantini, VCC de Lima… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed malignancy in women. Increasing evidence has
highlighted the importance of chronic inflammation at the local and/or systemic level in …

Tissue resident iNKT17 cells facilitate cancer cell extravasation in liver metastasis via interleukin-22

AD Giannou, J Kempski, AM Shiri, J Lücke, T Zhang… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
During metastasis, cancer cells invade, intravasate, enter the circulation, extravasate, and
colonize target organs. Here, we examined the role of interleukin (IL)-22 in metastasis …

Targeting interleukin-1β and inflammation in lung cancer

J Zhang, N Veeramachaneni - Biomarker research, 2022 - Springer
Inflammation is a process that protects organs against various potentially harmful stimuli and
enables repair. Dysregulated inflammation, however, damages tissues and leads to …