GD2-CAR T cell therapy for H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas

RG Majzner, S Ramakrishna, KW Yeom, S Patel… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and other H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas
(DMGs) are universally lethal paediatric tumours of the central nervous system. We have …

[HTML][HTML] Dual-specificity RNA aptamers enable manipulation of target-specific O-GlcNAcylation and unveil functions of O-GlcNAc on β-catenin

Y Zhu, GW Hart - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
O-GlcNAc is a dynamic post-translational modification (PTM) that regulates protein functions.
In studying the regulatory roles of O-GlcNAc, a major roadblock is the inability to change O …

Epithelial Vegfa specifies a distinct endothelial population in the mouse lung

LV Ellis, MP Cain, V Hutchison, P Flodby, ED Crandall… - Developmental cell, 2020 - cell.com
The lung microvasculature is essential for gas exchange and commonly considered
homogeneous. We show that VEGFA from the epithelium is required for a distinct …

Integration, exploration, and analysis of high‐dimensional single‐cell cytometry data using Spectre

TM Ashhurst, F Marsh‐Wakefield, GH Putri… - Cytometry Part …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As the size and complexity of high‐dimensional (HD) cytometry data continue to expand,
comprehensive, scalable, and methodical computational analysis approaches are essential …

Ferroptotic stress promotes the accumulation of pro-inflammatory proximal tubular cells in maladaptive renal repair

S Ide, Y Kobayashi, K Ide, SA Strausser, K Abe… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Overwhelming lipid peroxidation induces ferroptotic stress and ferroptosis, a non-apoptotic
form of regulated cell death that has been implicated in maladaptive renal repair in mice and …

Integrative functional genomic analyses identify genetic variants influencing skin pigmentation in Africans

Y Feng, N **e, F Inoue, S Fan, J Saskin, C Zhang… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Skin color is highly variable in Africans, yet little is known about the underlying molecular
mechanism. Here we applied massively parallel reporter assays to screen 1,157 candidate …

Fasting renders immunotherapy effective against low-immunogenic breast cancer while reducing side effects

S Cortellino, A Raveane, C Chiodoni, G Delfanti… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Immunotherapy is improving the prognosis and survival of cancer patients, but despite
encouraging outcomes in different cancers, the majority of tumors are resistant to it, and the …

ETV3 and ETV6 enable monocyte differentiation into dendritic cells by repressing macrophage fate commitment

J Villar, A Cros, A De Juan, L Alaoui, PE Bonte… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
In inflamed tissues, monocytes differentiate into macrophages (mo-Macs) or dendritic cells
(mo-DCs). In chronic nonresolving inflammation, mo-DCs are major drivers of pathogenic …

Gut microbiota from patients with COVID-19 cause alterations in mice that resemble post-COVID symptoms

V Mendes de Almeida, DF Engel, MF Ricci, CS Cruz… - Gut …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Long-term sequelae of coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 are frequent and of major concern.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection affects the host …

CD155 on tumor cells drives resistance to immunotherapy by inducing the degradation of the activating receptor CD226 in CD8+ T cells

M Braun, AR Aguilera, A Sundarrajan, D Corvino… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
The activating receptor CD226 is expressed on lymphocytes, monocytes, and platelets and
promotes anti-tumor immunity in pre-clinical models. Here, we examined the role of CD226 …