Pyroptosis, a new bridge to tumor immunity

L Li, M Jiang, L Qi, Y Wu, D Song, J Gan, Y Li… - Cancer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pyroptosis refers to the process of gasdermin (GSDM)‐mediated programmed cell death
(PCD). Our understanding of pyroptosis has expanded beyond cells and is known to involve …

[HTML][HTML] Switching from apoptosis to pyroptosis: gasdermin-elicited inflammation and antitumor immunity

K Tsuchiya - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pyroptosis is a necrotic form of regulated cell death. Gasdermines (GSDMs) are a family of
intracellular proteins that execute pyroptosis. While GSDMs are expressed as inactive forms …

Role of pyroptosis in cancer cells and clinical applications

X Ju, Z Yang, H Zhang, Q Wang - Biochimie, 2021 - Elsevier
Chemotherapy drugs usually inhibit tumor cell growth through the apoptosis pathway.
However, tumor cells become resistant to chemotherapy drugs by evading apoptosis. It is …

[HTML][HTML] Pyroptosis in inflammatory diseases and cancer

Z Rao, Y Zhu, P Yang, Z Chen, Y Xia, C Qiao, W Liu… - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pyroptosis is a lytic and inflammatory type of programmed cell death that is usually triggered
by inflammasomes and executed by gasdermin proteins. The main characteristics of …

Pyroptosis: A road to next-generation cancer immunotherapy

Y Fang, Y Tang, B Huang - Seminars in Immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
The goal of cancer immunotherapy is to clear tumor cells by activating antitumor immunity,
especially by mobilizing tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells. Pyroptosis, programmed lytic cell …

[HTML][HTML] Pyroptosis at the forefront of anticancer immunity

R Loveless, R Bloomquist, Y Teng - Journal of Experimental & Clinical …, 2021 - Springer
Tumor resistance to apoptosis and the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment are two
major contributors to poor therapeutic responses during cancer intervention. Pyroptosis, a …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging mechanisms of pyroptosis and its therapeutic strategy in cancer

L Lu, Y Zhang, X Tan, Y Merkher, S Leonov, L Zhu… - Cell death …, 2022 - nature.com
Pyroptosis, a type of inflammatory programmed cell death, is triggered by caspase cleavage
of gasdermin family proteins. Based on accumulating evidence, pyroptosis is closely …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mechanisms and functions of pyroptosis in inflammation and antitumor immunity

J Hou, JM Hsu, MC Hung - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Canonically, gasdermin D (GSDMD) cleavage by caspase-1 through inflammasome
signaling triggers immune cell pyroptosis (ICP) as a host defense against pathogen …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer-associated pyroptosis: A new license to kill tumor

Q Kong, Z Zhang - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Pyroptosis is a programmed necrotic cell death mediated by pore-forming Gasdermin
(GSDM) proteins. After being unleashed from the C-terminal auto-inhibitory domains by …

Lighting a fire: can we harness pyroptosis to ignite antitumor immunity?

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, J Lieberman - Cancer immunology research, 2021 - AACR
The impressive success of current cancer immunotherapy in some patients but lack of
effectiveness in most patients suggests that additional strategies to promote antitumor …