Drugging the NLRP3 inflammasome: from signalling mechanisms to therapeutic targets

L Vande Walle, M Lamkanfi - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Diseases associated with chronic inflammation constitute a major health burden across the
world. As central instigators of the inflammatory response to infection and tissue damage …

Crosstalk between glucose metabolism, lactate production and immune response modulation

L Ye, Y Jiang, M Zhang - Cytokine & Growth Factor Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Metabolites of glycolytic metabolism have been identified as signaling molecules and
regulators of gene expression, in addition to their basic function as major energy and …

Macrophage fumarate hydratase restrains mtRNA-mediated interferon production

A Hooftman, CG Peace, DG Ryan, EA Day, M Yang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Metabolic rewiring underlies the effector functions of macrophages,–, but the mechanisms
involved remain incompletely defined. Here, using unbiased metabolomics and stable …

Cancer-cell-derived fumarate suppresses the anti-tumor capacity of CD8+ T cells in the tumor microenvironment

J Cheng, J Yan, Y Liu, J Shi, H Wang, H Zhou, Y Zhou… - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Metabolic alterations in the microenvironment significantly modulate tumor
immunosensitivity, but the underlying mechanisms remain obscure. Here, we report that …

The role of itaconate in host defense and inflammation

CG Peace, LAJ O'Neill - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2022 - jci.org
Macrophages exposed to inflammatory stimuli including LPS undergo metabolic
reprogramming to facilitate macrophage effector function. This metabolic reprogramming …

Itaconate and itaconate derivatives target JAK1 to suppress alternative activation of macrophages

MC Runtsch, S Angiari, A Hooftman, R Wadhwa… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
The Krebs cycle-derived metabolite itaconate and its derivatives suppress the inflammatory
response in pro-inflammatory" M1" macrophages. However, alternatively activated" M2" …

Myopia

PN Baird, SM Saw, C Lanca, JA Guggenheim… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Myopia, also known as short-sightedness or near-sightedness, is a very common condition
that typically starts in childhood. Severe forms of myopia (pathologic myopia) are associated …

Metabolism of immune cells in cancer

RD Leone, JD Powell - Nature reviews cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Through the successes of checkpoint blockade and adoptive cellular therapy,
immunotherapy has become an established treatment modality for cancer. Cellular …

Mitochondrial TCA cycle metabolites control physiology and disease

I Martínez-Reyes, NS Chandel - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Mitochondria are signaling organelles that regulate a wide variety of cellular functions and
can dictate cell fate. Multiple mechanisms contribute to communicate mitochondrial fitness to …

The role of astrocytes in CNS inflammation

F Giovannoni, FJ Quintana - Trends in immunology, 2020 - cell.com
Astrocytes are the most abundant cell type in the central nervous system (CNS), performing
complex functions in health and disease. It is now clear that multiple astrocyte subsets or …