mRNA lipid nanoparticle-mediated pyroptosis sensitizes immunologically cold tumors to checkpoint immunotherapy

F Li, XQ Zhang, W Ho, M Tang, Z Li, L Bu… - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Synergistically improving T-cell responsiveness is promising for favorable therapeutic
outcomes in immunologically cold tumors, yet current treatments often fail to induce a …

Pyroptosis: A road to next-generation cancer immunotherapy

Y Fang, Y Tang, B Huang - Seminars in Immunology, 2023 - Elsevier
The goal of cancer immunotherapy is to clear tumor cells by activating antitumor immunity,
especially by mobilizing tumor-reactive CD8+ T cells. Pyroptosis, programmed lytic cell …

Lighting a fire: can we harness pyroptosis to ignite antitumor immunity?

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, J Lieberman - Cancer immunology research, 2021 - AACR
The impressive success of current cancer immunotherapy in some patients but lack of
effectiveness in most patients suggests that additional strategies to promote antitumor …

Nanodrug augmenting antitumor immunity for enhanced TNBC therapy via pyroptosis and cGAS-STING activation

H Zhong, G Chen, T Li, J Huang, M Lin, B Li, Z Xiao… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pyroptosis is a proinflammatory form of programmed cell death that results in the release of
cellular contents and activation of immune responses. However, GSDME (a pyroptosis …

Endogenous/exogenous stimulies inspired polyprodrug nano-inducer switches pyroptosis path for promoting antitumor immunity

X Ma, W Su, M Ye, Y Gao, W Qiu, M Liang, P Xue… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Pyroptosis-based nanomedicine shows great potential to unchoke the bottlenecks of cancer
immunotherapy, but hindered by precise and specific regulation of pyroptosis in tumor cells …

Pyroptosis, a new bridge to tumor immunity

L Li, M Jiang, L Qi, Y Wu, D Song, J Gan, Y Li… - Cancer …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pyroptosis refers to the process of gasdermin (GSDM)‐mediated programmed cell death
(PCD). Our understanding of pyroptosis has expanded beyond cells and is known to involve …

Switching from apoptosis to pyroptosis: gasdermin-elicited inflammation and antitumor immunity

K Tsuchiya - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pyroptosis is a necrotic form of regulated cell death. Gasdermines (GSDMs) are a family of
intracellular proteins that execute pyroptosis. While GSDMs are expressed as inactive forms …

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 …

Efficient delivery of GSDMD‐N mRNA by engineered extracellular vesicles induces pyroptosis for enhanced immunotherapy

Y Xing, F Zhang, P Ji, M Wei, C Yin, A Yang, G Yang… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pyroptosis is a newly discovered inflammatory form of programmed cell death, which
promotes systemic immune response in cancer immunotherapy. GSDMD is one of the key …

A mild hyperthermia hollow carbon nanozyme as pyroptosis inducer for boosted antitumor immunity

N Tao, L Jiao, H Li, L Deng, W Wang, S Zhao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) antibody immunotherapy has demonstrated clinical
benefits for multiple cancers. However, the efficacy of immunotherapy in tumors is …