Ferroptosis in cancer and cancer immunotherapy

L Zhao, X Zhou, F Xie, L Zhang, H Yan… - Cancer …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The hallmark of tumorigenesis is the successful circumvention of cell death regulation for
achieving unlimited replication and immortality. Ferroptosis is a newly identified type of cell …

NLRP3 inflammasome activation and cell death

Y Huang, W Xu, R Zhou - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The NLRP3 inflammasome is a cytosolic multiprotein complex composed of the innate
immune receptor protein NLRP3, adapter protein ASC, and inflammatory protease caspase …

Copper induces cell death by targeting lipoylated TCA cycle proteins

P Tsvetkov, S Coy, B Petrova, M Dreishpoon, A Verma… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Copper is an essential cofactor for all organisms, and yet it becomes toxic if concentrations
exceed a threshold maintained by evolutionarily conserved homeostatic mechanisms. How …

Pyroptosis: mechanisms and diseases

P Yu, X Zhang, N Liu, L Tang, C Peng… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Currently, pyroptosis has received more and more attention because of its association with
innate immunity and disease. The research scope of pyroptosis has expanded with the …

Bacterial origins of human cell-autonomous innate immune mechanisms

T Wein, R Sorek - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
The cell-autonomous innate immune system enables animal cells to resist viral infection.
This system comprises an array of sensors that, after detecting viral molecules, activate the …

A pyroptosis nanotuner for cancer therapy

B Chen, Y Yan, Y Yang, G Cao, X Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pyroptosis is a gasdermin-mediated programmed necrosis that occurs via membrane
perforation and that can be exploited for biomedical applications in cancer therapy …

Photocatalytic superoxide radical generator that induces pyroptosis in cancer cells

L Yu, Y Xu, Z Pu, H Kang, M Li… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Pyroptosis, a newly characterized form of immunogenic cell death, is attracting increasing
attention as a promising approach to cancer immunotherapy. However, biocompatible …

[HTML][HTML] Gasdermin D in pyroptosis

BE Burdette, AN Esparza, H Zhu, S Wang - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2021 - Elsevier
Pyroptosis is the process of inflammatory cell death. The primary function of pyroptosis is to
induce strong inflammatory responses that defend the host against microbe infection …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammation-related pyroptosis, a novel programmed cell death pathway, and its crosstalk with immune therapy in cancer treatment

SK Hsu, CY Li, IL Lin, WJ Syue, YF Chen, KC Cheng… - Theranostics, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In recent decades, chemotherapies targeting apoptosis have emerged and demonstrated
remarkable achievements. However, emerging evidence has shown that chemoresistance is …

GSDME-mediated pyroptosis promotes the progression and associated inflammation of atherosclerosis

Y Wei, B Lan, T Zheng, L Yang, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Pyroptosis, a type of Gasdermin-mediated cell death, contributes to an exacerbation of
inflammation. To test the hypothesis that GSDME-mediated pyroptosis aggravates the …