The multiple roles of interferon regulatory factor family in health and disease

L Wang, Y Zhu, N Zhang, Y Xian, Y Tang, J Ye… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Interferon Regulatory Factors (IRFs), a family of transcription factors, profoundly
influence the immune system, impacting both physiological and pathological processes …

Mechanisms of PDAC subtype heterogeneity and therapy response

E Espinet, L Klein, E Puré, SK Singh - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is clinically challenging due to late diagnosis
and resistance to therapy. Two major PDAC subtypes have been defined based on …

[HTML][HTML] Imbalance of regulatory and cytotoxic SARS-CoV-2-reactive CD4+ T cells in COVID-19

BJ Meckiff, C Ramírez-Suástegui, V Fajardo, SJ Chee… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The contribution of CD4+ T cells to protective or pathogenic immune responses to SARS-
CoV-2 infection remains unknown. Here, we present single-cell transcriptomic analysis of> …

Blockade of LAG-3 and PD-1 leads to co-expression of cytotoxic and exhaustion gene modules in CD8+ T cells to promote antitumor immunity

AR Cillo, C Cardello, F Shan, L Karapetyan, S Kunning… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Summary Relatlimab (rela; anti-LAG-3) plus nivolumab (nivo; anti-PD-1) is safe and effective
for treatment of advanced melanoma. We designed a trial (NCT03743766) where advanced …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptomic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 reactive CD4+ T cells

BJ Meckiff, C Ramírez-Suástegui… - Social Science …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The contribution of CD4+ T cells to protective or pathogenic immune responses to SARS-
CoV-2 infection remains unknown. Here, we present large-scale single-cell transcriptomic …

Improving representations of genomic sequence motifs in convolutional networks with exponential activations

PK Koo, M Ploenzke - Nature machine intelligence, 2021 - nature.com
Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained on regulatory genomic sequences tend
to build representations in a distributed manner, making it a challenge to extract learned …

TGF-β generates a population of cancer cells residing in G1 phase with high motility and metastatic potential via KRTAP2-3

K Takahashi, KA Podyma-Inoue, M Saito, S Sakakitani… - Cell Reports, 2022 - cell.com
Transforming growth factor β (TGF-β) increases epithelial cancer cell migration and
metastasis by inducing epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). TGF-β also inhibits cell …

The urothelial gene regulatory network: understanding biology to improve bladder cancer management

M Ramal, S Corral, M Kalisz, E Lapi, FX Real - Oncogene, 2024 - nature.com
The urothelium is a stratified epithelium composed of basal cells, one or more layers of
intermediate cells, and an upper layer of differentiated umbrella cells. Most bladder cancers …

Dysregulation in IFN-γ signaling and response: the barricade to tumor immunotherapy

J Han, M Wu, Z Liu - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) has been identified as a crucial factor in determining the
responsiveness to immunotherapy. Produced primarily by natural killer (NK) and T cells, IFN …

Reconstitution of human PDAC using primary cells reveals oncogenic transcriptomic features at tumor onset

Y Xu, MH Nipper, AA Dominguez, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Animal studies have demonstrated the ability of pancreatic acinar cells to transform into
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC). However, the tumorigenic potential of human …