Radiotherapy combined with immunotherapy: the dawn of cancer treatment

Z Zhang, X Liu, D Chen, J Yu - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2022 - nature.com
Radiotherapy (RT) is delivered for purposes of local control, but can also exert systemic
effect on remote and non-irradiated tumor deposits, which is called abscopal effect. The view …

An update on the regulatory mechanisms of NLRP3 inflammasome activation

S Paik, JK Kim, P Silwal, C Sasakawa… - Cellular & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The NOD-, LRR-, and pyrin domain-containing protein 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome is
a multiprotein complex involved in the release of mature interleukin-1β and triggering of …

Tau activation of microglial cGAS–IFN reduces MEF2C-mediated cognitive resilience

JC Udeochu, S Amin, Y Huang, L Fan, ERS Torres… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) precede clinical symptoms by years,
indicating a period of cognitive resilience before the onset of dementia. Here, we report that …

NAD+ supplementation reduces neuroinflammation and cell senescence in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease via cGAS–STING

Y Hou, Y Wei, S Lautrup, B Yang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder. Impaired
neuronal bioenergetics and neuroinflammation are thought to play key roles in the …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of cellular senescence: cell cycle arrest and senescence associated secretory phenotype

R Kumari, P Jat - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cellular senescence is a stable cell cycle arrest that can be triggered in normal cells in
response to various intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli, as well as developmental signals …

Chemical and biomolecular strategies for STING pathway activation in cancer immunotherapy

KM Garland, TL Sheehy, JT Wilson - Chemical reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The stimulator of interferon genes (STING) cellular signaling pathway is a promising target
for cancer immunotherapy. Activation of the intracellular STING protein triggers the …

Circular RNA: metabolism, functions and interactions with proteins

WY Zhou, ZR Cai, J Liu, DS Wang, HQ Ju, RH Xu - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Circular RNAs (CircRNAs) are single-stranded, covalently closed RNA molecules
that are ubiquitous across species ranging from viruses to mammals. Important advances …

Tumor-targeted delivery of a STING agonist improves cancer immunotherapy

Y Wu, Y Fang, Q Wei, H Shi, H Tan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The cGAS-STING pathway is essential for immune defense against microbial pathogens and
malignant cells; as such, STING is an attractive target for cancer immunotherapy. However …

Intratumoural administration and tumour tissue targeting of cancer immunotherapies

I Melero, E Castanon, M Alvarez, S Champiat… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are
revolutionizing oncology and haematology practice. With these and other immunotherapies …

Circular RNA: An emerging frontier in RNA therapeutic targets, RNA therapeutics, and mRNA vaccines

X Liu, Y Zhang, S Zhou, L Dain, L Mei, G Zhu - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Circular RNAs (circRNA) is a class of natural (biogenic) or synthetic closed RNA without 5′
or 3′ ends. Meanwhile, their unique covalently-closed structures of circRNA prevent RNA …