Role of ceramide/sphingomyelin (SM) balance regulated through “SM cycle” in cancer

M Taniguchi, T Okazaki - Cellular signalling, 2021 - Elsevier
Sphingomyelin synthase (SMS), which comprises of two isozymes, SMS1 and SMS2, is the
only enzyme that generates sphingomyelin (SM) by transferring phosphocholine of …

Curcumin: A natural modulator of immune cells in systemic lupus erythematosus

AA Momtazi-Borojeni, SM Haftcheshmeh… - Autoimmunity …, 2018 - Elsevier
Curcumin is a polyphenol natural product isolated from turmeric, interacting with different
cellular and molecular targets and, consequently, showing a wide range of pharmacological …

Scalable, multimodal profiling of chromatin accessibility, gene expression and protein levels in single cells

EP Mimitou, CA Lareau, KY Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent technological advances have enabled massively parallel chromatin profiling with
scATAC-seq (single-cell assay for transposase accessible chromatin by sequencing). Here …

Nitric oxide induces immunogenic cell death and potentiates cancer immunotherapy

W Jiang, W Dong, M Li, Z Guo, Q Wang, Y Liu, Y Bi… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Tumor cells undergoing immunogenic cell death (ICD) release immunogenic damage-
associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) to trigger a long-term protective antitumor response …

CD69 acts downstream of interferon-α/β to inhibit S1P1 and lymphocyte egress from lymphoid organs

LR Shiow, DB Rosen, N Brdičková, Y Xu, J An… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Naive lymphocytes continually enter and exit lymphoid organs in a recirculation process that
is essential for immune surveillance. During immune responses, the egress process can be …

Defective inflammatory pathways in never-treated depressed patients are associated with poor treatment response

SA Syed, E Beurel, DA Loewenstein, JA Lowell… - Neuron, 2018 - cell.com
Inflammation has been involved in the pathophysiology and treatment response of major
depressive disorder (MDD). Plasma cytokine profiles of 171 treatment-naive MDD patients …

Opsonic phagocytosis of Plasmodium falciparummerozoites: mechanism in human immunity and a correlate of protection against malaria

FHA Osier, G Feng, MJ Boyle, C Langer, J Zhou… - BMC medicine, 2014 - Springer
Background An understanding of the mechanisms mediating protective immunity against
malaria in humans is currently lacking, but critically important to advance the development of …

Mass-spectrometric identification and relative quantification of N-linked cell surface glycoproteins

B Wollscheid, D Bausch-Fluck, C Henderson… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
Although the classification of cell types often relies on the identification of cell surface
proteins as differentiation markers, flow cytometry requires suitable antibodies and currently …

Suppression of T-cell functions by human granulocyte arginase

M Munder, H Schneider, C Luckner, T Giese… - Blood, 2006 - ashpublications.org
Chronic inflammation is accompanied by impaired T-cell immunity. In the mouse, myeloid
cell-associated arginase accounts for the suppression of immune reactivity in various …

Systems-level analysis of age-related macular degeneration reveals global biomarkers and phenotype-specific functional networks

AM Newman, NB Gallo, LS Hancox, NJ Miller… - Genome medicine, 2012 - Springer
Background Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness that
affects the central region of the retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE), choroid, and neural …