Heat shock proteins: Biological functions, pathological roles, and therapeutic opportunities

C Hu, J Yang, Z Qi, H Wu, B Wang, F Zou, H Mei… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The heat shock proteins (HSPs) are ubiquitous and conserved protein families in both
prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms, and they maintain cellular proteostasis and protect …

The role of inflammation in diabetic retinopathy

JV Forrester, L Kuffova, M Delibegovic - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Inflammation is central to pathogenic processes in diabetes mellitus and the metabolic
syndrome and particularly implicates innate immunity in the development of complications …

Challenges and new technologies in adoptive cell therapy

P Zhang, G Zhang, X Wan - Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Adoptive cell therapies (ACTs) have existed for decades. From the initial infusion of tumor-
infiltrating lymphocytes to the subsequent specific enhanced T cell receptor (TCR)-T and …

Genome-wide analysis of human long noncoding RNAs: a provocative review

CP Ponting, W Haerty - Annual review of genomics and human …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Do long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) contribute little or substantively to human biology? To
address how lncRNA loci and their transcripts, structures, interactions, and functions …

The dark proteome: translation from noncanonical open reading frames

BW Wright, Z Yi, JS Weissman, J Chen - Trends in Cell Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Omics-based technologies have revolutionized our understanding of the coding potential of
the genome. In particular, these studies revealed widespread unannotated open reading …

Non-canonical features of microRNAs: paradigms emerging from cardiovascular disease

D Santovito, C Weber - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2022 - nature.com
Research showing that microRNAs (miRNAs) are versatile regulators of gene expression
has instigated tremendous interest in cardiovascular research. The overwhelming majority of …

Translation and natural selection of micropeptides from long non-canonical RNAs

P Patraquim, EG Magny, JI Pueyo, AI Platero… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) are transcripts longer than 200 nucleotides but lacking
canonical coding sequences. Apparently unable to produce peptides, lncRNA function …

CD4+ T cells exhibit distinct transcriptional phenotypes in the lymph nodes and blood following mRNA vaccination in humans

N Borcherding, W Kim, M Quinn, F Han, JQ Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and mRNA
vaccination induce robust CD4+ T cell responses. Using single-cell transcriptomics, here …

Lipopolysaccharide facilitates immune escape of hepatocellular carcinoma cells via m6A modification of lncRNA MIR155HG to upregulate PD-L1 expression

L Peng, B Pan, X Zhang, Z Wang, J Qiu, X Wang… - Cell biology and …, 2022 - Springer
Recent studies have suggested that the initiation and progression of hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) are closely associated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of intestinal bacteria …

Revisiting sORFs: overcoming challenges to identify and characterize functional microproteins

D Schlesinger, SJ Elsässer - The FEBS journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Short ORFs (sORFs), that is, occurrences of a start and stop codon within 100 codons or
less, can be found in organisms of all domains of life, outnumbering annotated protein …