Updating Phospholipase A2 Biology

M Murakami, H Sato, Y Taketomi - Biomolecules, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
The phospholipase A2 (PLA2) superfamily contains more than 50 enzymes in mammals that
are subdivided into several distinct families on a structural and biochemical basis. In …

Anti-inflammatory therapies for atherosclerosis

M Bäck, GK Hansson - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2015‏ - nature.com
The view of atherosclerosis as an inflammatory disease has emerged from observations of
immune activation and inflammatory signalling in human atherosclerotic lesions, from the …

Up-regulated PLA2G10 in cancer impairs T cell infiltration to dampen immunity

T Zhang, W Yu, X Cheng, J Yeung, V Ahumada… - Science …, 2024‏ - science.org
T cells are often absent from human cancer tissues during both spontaneously induced
immunity and therapeutic immunotherapy, even in the presence of a functional T cell …

Molecular biology of atherosclerosis

PN Hopkins - Physiological reviews, 2013‏ - journals.physiology.org
At least 468 individual genes have been manipulated by molecular methods to study their
effects on the initiation, promotion, and progression of atherosclerosis. Most clinicians and …

Varespladib and cardiovascular events in patients with an acute coronary syndrome: the VISTA-16 randomized clinical trial

SJ Nicholls, JJP Kastelein, GG Schwartz, D Bash… - Jama, 2014‏ - jamanetwork.com
Importance Secretory phospholipase A 2 (sPLA 2) generates bioactive phospholipid
products implicated in atherosclerosis. The sPLA 2 inhibitor varespladib has favorable …

[HTML][HTML] A twist of FATe: Lipid droplets and inflammatory lipid mediators

E Jarc, T Petan - Biochimie, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Lipid droplets are fat storage organelles present in most eukaryotic cells. They consist of a
neutral lipid core containing mostly triglycerides and sterol esters and covered by a …

Selectivity of phospholipid hydrolysis by phospholipase A2 enzymes in activated cells leading to polyunsaturated fatty acid mobilization

AM Astudillo, MA Balboa, J Balsinde - … (BBA)-Molecular and Cell Biology of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Phospholipase A 2 s are enzymes that hydrolyze the fatty acid at the sn-2 position of the
glycerol backbone of membrane glycerophospholipids. Given the asymmetric distribution of …

DNA methylation map of human atherosclerosis

S Zaina, H Heyn, FJ Carmona, N Varol… - Circulation …, 2014‏ - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Epigenetic alterations may contribute to the development of atherosclerosis.
In particular, DNA methylation, a reversible and highly regulated DNA modification, could …

A new era of secreted phospholipase A2

M Murakami, H Sato, Y Miki, K Yamamoto… - Journal of lipid …, 2015‏ - ASBMB
Among more than 30 members of the phospholipase A 2 (PLA 2) superfamily, secreted PLA
2 (sPLA 2) enzymes represent the largest family, being Ca 2+-dependent low-molecular …

Targeting the Immune System in Atherosclerosis: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

TX Zhao, Z Mallat - Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2019‏ - jacc.org
Atherosclerosis has long been known as an inflammatory disease. However, whether
targeting inflammation improves outcomes was unproven until the recent results of CANTOS …