Oncolytic viruses as engineering platforms for combination immunotherapy

K Twumasi-Boateng, JL Pettigrew, YYE Kwok… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
To effectively build on the recent successes of immune checkpoint blockade, adoptive T cell
therapy and cancer vaccines, it is critical to rationally design combination strategies that will …

MicroRNA involvement in signaling pathways during viral infection

MG Barbu, CE Condrat, DC Thompson… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The study of miRNAs started in 1993, when Lee et al. observed their involvement in the
downregulation of a crucial protein known as LIN-14 in the nematode Caenorhabditis …

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 …

HSV-1 single-cell analysis reveals the activation of anti-viral and developmental programs in distinct sub-populations

N Drayman, P Patel, L Vistain, S Tay - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Viral infection is usually studied at the population level by averaging over millions of cells.
However, infection at the single-cell level is highly heterogeneous, with most infected cells …

A microRNA screen identifies the Wnt signaling pathway as a regulator of the interferon response during flavivirus infection

JL Smith, S Jeng, SK McWeeney, AJ Hirsch - Journal of virology, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
The impact of mosquito-borne flavivirus infections worldwide is significant, and many critical
aspects of these viruses' biology, including virus-host interactions, host cell requirements for …

Influenza virus infects epithelial stem/progenitor cells of the distal lung: impact on Fgfr2b-driven epithelial repair

J Quantius, C Schmoldt, AI Vazquez-Armendariz… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Influenza Virus (IV) pneumonia is associated with severe damage of the lung epithelium and
respiratory failure. Apart from efficient host defense, structural repair of the injured epithelium …

Characterization of novel splice variants of zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP)

MMH Li, EG Aguilar, E Michailidis, J Pabon… - Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Given the unprecedented scale of the recent Ebola and Zika viral epidemics, it is crucial to
understand the biology of host factors with broad antiviral action in order to develop novel …

Oncolytic viruses: exploiting cancer's deal with the devil

LA Pikor, JC Bell, JS Diallo - Trends in cancer, 2015 - cell.com
Tumor cells harbor tens to thousands of genetic and epigenetic alterations that disrupt
cellular pathways, providing them with growth and survival advantages. However, these …

Cross-species analysis of viral nucleic acid interacting proteins identifies TAOKs as innate immune regulators

FL Pennemann, A Mussabekova, C Urban… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The cell intrinsic antiviral response of multicellular organisms developed over millions of
years and critically relies on the ability to sense and eliminate viral nucleic acids. Here we …

Functions of the WNT signaling network in shaping host responses to infection

JK Ljungberg, JC Kling, TT Tran… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
It is well-established that aberrant WNT expression and signaling is associated with
developmental defects, malignant transformation and carcinogenesis. More recently, WNT …