[HTML][HTML] ROS systems are a new integrated network for sensing homeostasis and alarming stresses in organelle metabolic processes

Y Sun, Y Lu, J Saredy, X Wang, C Drummer IV, Y Shao… - Redox biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are critical for the progression of cardiovascular diseases,
inflammations and tumors. However, the mechanisms of how ROS sense metabolic stress …

Vascular endothelial cells and innate immunity

Y Shao, J Saredy, WY Yang, Y Sun, Y Lu… - … , and vascular biology, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
In addition to the roles of endothelial cells (ECs) in physiological processes, ECs actively
participate in both innate and adaptive immune responses. We previously reported that, in …

Circular RNAs are a novel type of non-coding RNAs in ROS regulation, cardiovascular metabolic inflammations and cancers

F Saaoud, CD IV, Y Shao, Y Sun, Y Lu, K Xu… - Pharmacology & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are a novel class of endogenous non-coding RNAs characterized
by a covalently closed-loop structure generated through a special type of alternative splicing …

Caspase-11 promotes high-fat diet-induced NAFLD by increasing glycolysis, OXPHOS, and pyroptosis in macrophages

C Drummer IV, F Saaoud, NC Jhala, R Cueto… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has a global prevalence of 25% of the
population and is a leading cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. NAFLD ranges …

[HTML][HTML] IL-35 promotes CD4+ Foxp3+ Tregs and inhibits atherosclerosis via maintaining CCR5-amplified Treg-suppressive mechanisms

Y Shao, WY Yang, F Saaoud, C Drummer IV, Y Sun… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tregs play vital roles in suppressing atherogenesis. Pathological conditions reshape Tregs
and increase Treg-weakening plasticity. It remains unclear how Tregs preserve their function …

ER stress mediates Angiotensin II-augmented innate immunity memory and facilitates distinct susceptibilities of thoracic from abdominal aorta to aneurysm …

Y Lu, Y Sun, F Saaoud, Y Shao, K Xu, X Jiang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
To determine the roles of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and trained immunity, we
performed transcriptome analyses on the thoracic aorta (TA) and abdominal aorta (AA) from …

Endothelial immunity trained by coronavirus infections, DAMP stimulations and regulated by anti-oxidant NRF2 may contribute to inflammations, myelopoiesis, COVID …

Y Shao, J Saredy, K Xu, Y Sun, F Saaoud… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
To characterize transcriptomic changes in endothelial cells (ECs) infected by coronaviruses,
and stimulated by DAMPs, the expressions of 1311 innate immune regulatomic genes (IGs) …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-inflammatory cytokines IL-35 and IL-10 block atherogenic lysophosphatidylcholine-induced, mitochondrial ROS-mediated innate immune activation, but …

X Li, P Fang, Y Sun, Y Shao, WY Yang, X Jiang… - Redox biology, 2020 - Elsevier
It has been shown that anti-inflammatory cytokines interleukin-35 (IL-35) and IL-10 could
inhibit acute endothelial cell (EC) activation, however, it remains unknown if and by what …

IL-35 (interleukin-35) suppresses endothelial cell activation by inhibiting mitochondrial reactive oxygen species-mediated site-specific acetylation of H3K14 (histone 3 …

X Li, Y Shao, X Sha, P Fang, YM Kuo… - … , and vascular biology, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Objective—IL-35 (interleukin-35) is an anti-inflammatory cytokine, which inhibits immune
responses by inducing regulatory T cells and regulatory B cells and suppressing effector T …

Caspase-4/11 promotes hyperlipidemia and chronic kidney disease–accelerated vascular inflammation by enhancing trained immunity

Y Sun, Y Lu, L Liu, F Saaoud, Y Shao, K Xu… - JCI …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To determine whether hyperlipidemia and chronic kidney disease (CKD) have a synergy in
accelerating vascular inflammation via trained immunity (TI), we performed aortic …