Myeloid-derived suppressor cells as immunosuppressive regulators and therapeutic targets in cancer

K Li, H Shi, B Zhang, X Ou, Q Ma, Y Chen… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are a heterogenic population of immature
myeloid cells with immunosuppressive effects, which undergo massive expansion during …

Pre-metastatic niches: organ-specific homes for metastases

H Peinado, H Zhang, IR Matei, B Costa-Silva… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
It is well established that organs of future metastasis are not passive receivers of circulating
tumour cells, but are instead selectively and actively modified by the primary tumour before …

Single-cell analyses implicate ascites in remodeling the ecosystems of primary and metastatic tumors in ovarian cancer

X Zheng, X Wang, X Cheng, Z Liu, Y Yin, X Li, Z Huang… - Nature Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is an aggressive gynecological tumor usually diagnosed with
widespread metastases and ascites. Here, we depicted a single-cell landscape of the OC …

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals regulators underlying immune cell diversity and immune subtypes associated with prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

YP Chen, JH Yin, WF Li, HJ Li, DP Chen, CJ Zhang… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an aggressive malignancy with extremely skewed
ethnic and geographic distributions. Increasing evidence indicates that targeting the tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell lineage tracing of metastatic cancer reveals selection of hybrid EMT states

KP Simeonov, CN Byrns, ML Clark, RJ Norgard… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The underpinnings of cancer metastasis remain poorly understood, in part due to a lack of
tools for probing their emergence at high resolution. Here we present macsGESTALT, an …

The microenvironmental landscape of brain tumors

DF Quail, JA Joyce - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
The brain tumor microenvironment (TME) is emerging as a critical regulator of cancer
progression in primary and metastatic brain malignancies. The unique properties of this …

[HTML][HTML] Role of S100 proteins in health and disease

LL Gonzalez, K Garrie, MD Turner - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2020 - Elsevier
The S100 family of proteins contains 25 known members that share a high degree of
sequence and structural similarity. However, only a limited number of family members have …

Pathophysiology of RAGE in inflammatory diseases

H Dong, Y Zhang, Y Huang, H Deng - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) is a non-specific multi-ligand
pattern recognition receptor capable of binding to a range of structurally diverse ligands …

HMGB1, IL-1α, IL-33 and S100 proteins: dual-function alarmins

D Bertheloot, E Latz - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2017 - nature.com
Our immune system is based on the close collaboration of the innate and adaptive immune
systems for the rapid detection of any threats to the host. Recognition of pathogen-derived …

Why calcium? How calcium became the best communicator

E Carafoli, J Krebs - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2016 - ASBMB
Calcium carries messages to virtually all important functions of cells. Although it was already
active in unicellular organisms, its role became universally important after the transition to …