Role of pyroptosis in inflammation and cancer

X Wei, F Xie, X Zhou, Y Wu, H Yan, T Liu… - Cellular & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
Pyroptosis is a form of programmed cell death mediated by gasdermin and is a product of
continuous cell expansion until the cytomembrane ruptures, resulting in the release of …

[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 …

Channelling inflammation: gasdermins in physiology and disease

X Liu, S Xia, Z Zhang, H Wu, J Lieberman - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Gasdermins were recently identified as the mediators of pyroptosis—inflammatory cell death
triggered by cytosolic sensing of invasive infection and danger signals. Upon activation …

Navigating CAR-T cells through the solid-tumour microenvironment

AJ Hou, LC Chen, YY Chen - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
The adoptive transfer of T cells that are engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors
(CARs) has shown remarkable success in treating B cell malignancies but only limited …

Targeting apoptosis in cancer therapy

BA Carneiro, WS El-Deiry - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
For over three decades, a mainstay and goal of clinical oncology has been the development
of therapies promoting the effective elimination of cancer cells by apoptosis. This …

Soft actuators for soft robotic applications: A review

N El-Atab, RB Mishra, F Al-Modaf… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robotics technologies are paving the way toward robotic abilities which are vital for a
wide range of applications, including manufacturing, manipulation, gripping, human …

Gasdermin E suppresses tumour growth by activating anti-tumour immunity

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, S Xia, Q Kong, S Li, X Liu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cleavage of the gasdermin proteins to produce pore-forming amino-terminal fragments
causes inflammatory cell death (pyroptosis). Gasdermin E (GSDME, also known as DFNA5) …

Granzyme A from cytotoxic lymphocytes cleaves GSDMB to trigger pyroptosis in target cells

Z Zhou, H He, K Wang, X Shi, Y Wang, Y Su, Y Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION In cellular immunity, cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and natural killer (NK)
cells use perforin to deliver serine protease granzymes into target cells to kill them …

Human chimeric antigen receptor macrophages for cancer immunotherapy

M Klichinsky, M Ruella, O Shestova, XM Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has shown promise in hematologic
malignancies, but its application to solid tumors has been challenging,,–. Given the unique …

Natural killer cells: development, maturation, and clinical utilization

AM Abel, C Yang, MS Thakar… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are the predominant innate lymphocyte subsets that mediate anti-
tumor and anti-viral responses, and therefore possess promising clinical utilization. NK cells …