All about (NK cell-mediated) death in two acts and an unexpected encore: initiation, execution and activation of adaptive immunity

A Ramírez-Labrada, C Pesini, L Santiago… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
NK cells are key mediators of immune cell-mediated cytotoxicity toward infected and
transformed cells, being one of the main executors of cell death in the immune system. NK …

Escaping death: how cancer cells and infected cells resist cell-mediated cytotoxicity

K Tuomela, AR Ambrose, DM Davis - Frontiers in immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Cytotoxic lymphocytes are critical in our immune defence against cancer and infection.
Cytotoxic T lymphocytes and Natural Killer cells can directly lyse malignant or infected cells …

Lysosomal cell death mechanisms in aging

R Gómez-Sintes, MD Ledesma, P Boya - Ageing research reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Lysosomes are degradative organelles essential for cell homeostasis that regulate a variety
of processes, from calcium signaling and nutrient responses to autophagic degradation of …

The role of cysteine cathepsins in cancer progression and drug resistance

M Rudzińska, A Parodi, SM Soond, AZ Vinarov… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Cysteine cathepsins are lysosomal enzymes belonging to the papain family. Their
expression is misregulated in a wide variety of tumors, and ample data prove their …

Cathepsin-sensitive nanoscale drug delivery systems for cancer therapy and other diseases

D Dheer, J Nicolas, R Shankar - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Cathepsins are an important category of enzymes that have attracted great attention for the
delivery of drugs to improve the therapeutic outcome of a broad range of nanoscale drug …

Cystatins in cancer progression: More than just cathepsin inhibitors

B Breznik, A Mitrović, TT Lah, J Kos - Biochimie, 2019 - Elsevier
Cystatins are endogenous and reversible inhibitors of cysteine peptidases that are important
players in cancer progression. Besides their primary role as regulators of cysteine peptidase …

Natural killer cells: diverse functions in tumor immunity and defects in pre-neoplastic and neoplastic stages of tumorigenesis

A Jewett, J Kos, K Kaur, T Safaei, C Sutanto… - Molecular Therapy …, 2020 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are the key immune effectors with the ability to mediate selection and
differentiation of a number of different cancer stem cells/undifferentiated tumors via lysis, and …

Single cell transcriptomics of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) liver reveals cellular heterogeneity and immunological responses to challenge by Aeromonas …

RS Taylor, R Ruiz Daniels, R Dobie, S Naseer… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The liver is a multitasking organ with essential functions for vertebrate health spanning
metabolism and immunity. In contrast to mammals, our understanding of liver cellular …

SARS-CoV-2 infection of phagocytic immune cells and COVID-19 pathology: Antibody-dependent as well as independent cell entry

O Matveeva, Y Nechipurenko, D Lagutkin… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Our review summarizes the evidence that COVID-19 can be complicated by SARS-CoV-2
infection of immune cells. This evidence is widespread and accumulating at an increasing …

Complement receptor CD46 co-stimulates optimal human CD8+ T cell effector function via fatty acid metabolism

G Arbore, EE West, J Rahman, G Le Friec… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The induction of human CD4+ Th1 cells requires autocrine stimulation of the complement
receptor CD46 in direct crosstalk with a CD4+ T cell-intrinsic NLRP3 inflammasome …