Engineering receptor-mediated transmembrane signaling in artificial and living cells

K Shi, C Song, Y Wang, R Chandrawati… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Living cells possess a variety of transmembrane signaling systems that receive chemical
and physical cues from the environment and transduce this information into an intracellular …

Death receptors as targets in cancer

O Micheau, S Shirley, F Dufour - British journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Anti‐tumour therapies based on the use pro‐apoptotic receptor agonists, including TNF‐
related apoptosis‐inducing ligand (TRAIL) or monoclonal antibodies targeting TRAIL‐R1 or …

Misfolded proteins bind and activate death receptor 5 to trigger apoptosis during unresolved endoplasmic reticulum stress

M Lam, SA Marsters, A Ashkenazi, P Walter - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Disruption of protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) activates the unfolded protein
response (UPR)—a signaling network that ultimately determines cell fate. Initially, UPR …

Clustering of death receptor for apoptosis using nanoscale patterns of peptides

Y Wang, I Baars, F Fordos, B Hogberg - Acs Nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
The nanoscale spatial organization of transmembrane tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptors
has been implicated in the regulation of cellular fate. Accordingly, molecular tools that can …

Polymer nanomedicines

J Kopeček, J Yang - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Polymer nanomedicines (macromolecular therapeutics, polymer-drug conjugates, drug-free
macromolecular therapeutics) are a group of biologically active compounds that are …

Apo2L/TRAIL and the death receptor 5 agonist antibody AMG 655 cooperate to promote receptor clustering and antitumor activity

JD Graves, JJ Kordich, TH Huang, J Piasecki, TL Bush… - Cancer cell, 2014 - cell.com
Death receptor agonist therapies have exhibited limited clinical benefit to date.
Investigations into why Apo2L/TRAIL and AMG 655 preclinical data were not predictive of …

Self-Illuminating Nanoagonist Simultaneously Induces Dual Cell Death Pathways via Death Receptor Clustering for Cancer Therapy

Y You, L Zhu, Y Song, J Hu, M Chen, J Zhang, X Xu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Inducing death receptor 5 (DR5) clustering holds particular promise in tumor-specific
therapeutics because it could trigger an apoptotic cascade in cancerous cells. Herein, we …

Towards novel paradigms for cancer therapy

V Pavet, MM Portal, JC Moulin, R Herbrecht… - Oncogene, 2011 - nature.com
Cancer is a complex progressive multistep disorder that results from the accumulation of
genetic and epigenetic abnormalities, which lead to the transformation of normal cells into …

Collapsed Star Copolymers Exhibiting Near Perfect Mimicry of the Therapeutic Protein “TRAIL”

Z Han, Z Li, MH Stenzel… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Here we introduce amphiphilic star polymers as versatile protein mimics capable of
approximating the activity of certain native proteins. Our study focuses on designing a …

N-glycosylation of mouse TRAIL-R and human TRAIL-R1 enhances TRAIL-induced death

F Dufour, T Rattier, S Shirley, G Picarda… - Cell Death & …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract APO2L/TRAIL (TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand) induces death of tumor cells
through two agonist receptors, TRAIL-R1 and TRAIL-R2. We demonstrate here that N-linked …