Targeting PCSK9, through an innovative cVLP-based vaccine, enhanced the therapeutic activity of a cVLP-HER2 vaccine in a preclinical model of HER2-positive mammary carcinoma by Laura Scalambra, Francesca Ruzzi, Olga Maria Pittino, Maria Sofia Semprini, Chiara Cappello, Stefania Angelicola, Arianna Palladini, Patrizia Nanni, Louise Goksøyr, Cyrielle Fougeroux, Manuel L. Penichet, Adam Frederik Sander, Pier-Luigi Lollini

“…Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibition is a novel therapeutic strategy for the management of dyslipidemia by enhancing the clearance of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol receptors, however recent evidence also shows links between PCSK9 and cancer cells. We present an innovative immunization approach combining capsid virus-like particle (cVLP)-based vaccines against HER2 and PCSK9. …”
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PPARα suppresses growth of hepatocellular carcinoma in a high-fat diet context by reducing neutrophil extracellular trap release by Banglun Pan, Zhu Zhang, Dongjie Ye, Xiaoxia Zhang, Yuxin Yao, Yue Luo, Haijie Hong, Xinran Cai, Yanling Chen, Nanhong Tang

“…Results from preclinical models suggest that PPARα can limit mitochondrial oxidative stress, inhibit cGAS-STING-NF-κB signaling, and limit the release of neutrophil extracellular traps, thereby increasing the contact of anti-tumor leukocytes and hepatocellular cancer cells and limiting tumor growth.…”
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PKCα regulates the secretion of PDL1-carrying small extracellular vesicles in a p53-dependent manner by Ren Zhang, Weilin Liao, Xi Chen, Junyi Wang, Jiaqi Li, Geer Chen, Weiyu Wu, Xiaoxuan Wang, Yao Zhang, Ziyu Chen, Xiaoyu Zhu, Zicong Lin, Yizhun Zhu, Lijuan Ma, Haijie Yu

“…Intracellular calcium and the associated downstream PKC signaling plays pivotal roles in releasing PD-L1 sEVs in non-small cell lung cancer cells (NSCLC). Particularly, we observed that knocking down PKCα has profound impacts on PD-L1 sEVs secretion, especially in the resting state and in the activated state, when induced by an intracellular calcium rise. …”
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High Spatiotemporal Near‐Infrared II Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging for Quantitative Detection of Clinical Tumor Margins by Zhen Chen, Linjian Huang, Duyang Gao, Zhouzhou Bao, Dehong Hu, Wei Zheng, Jing Chen, Jiuling Liao, Hairong Zheng, Zonghai Sheng

“…In vitro and in vivo studies confirm that FPH‐ICG specifically targets folate receptor‐α (FRα) on SK‐OV‐3 ovarian cancer cells, achieving high‐contrast NIR‐II FL imaging with a signal‐to‐background ratio of 10.8. …”
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Enhancing immunotherapy through PD‐L1 upregulation: the promising combination of anti‐PD‐L1 plus mTOR inhibitors by Anna Hernández‐Prat, Alejo Rodriguez‐Vida, Laura Cardona, Mengjuan Qin, Oriol Arpí‐Llucià, Luis Soria‐Jiménez, Sílvia Menendez, Fabricio Gerel Quimis, Miguel Galindo, Edurne Arriola, Marta Salido, Nuria Juanpere‐Rodero, Federico Rojo, Aura Muntasell, Joan Albanell, Ana Rovira, Joaquim Bellmunt

“…TAK‐228‐treated bladder cancer cells exhibited resistance to the cytotoxic effects of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and cluster of differentiation 8 (CD8)+ T cells. …”
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FDFT1 inhibits macrophage M1 polarization and promotes colorectal cancer progression by GAO Yuan, HUANG Yulan, ZHAO Kun

“…Objective‍　‍To screen the targets related to the metabolic enzymes involved in the cholesterol synthesis pathway that inhibits the polarization of macrophages towards M1 phenotype, and verify the intervention effects and underlying mechanisms in colorectal cancer cells. Methods‍　‍Mouse colorectal cancer MC38 cells were divided into control group (si-NC) and experimental groups (the expression of enzymes in cholesterol synthesis pathway was interfered with siRNA for corresponding targets). …”
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Tumor CEMIP drives immune evasion of colorectal cancer via MHC-I internalization and degradation by Ying Zhu, Jiao Li, Tao Zhang, Lei Zhao, Min Jin, Jinghua Ren, Jing Tang, Haihong Wang, Zhenyu Lin, Qing Liang, Ruiqi Li, Biying Zhang, Qingling Hua, Guojie Xu, Jiayuan Chen, Lanqing Wang, Dejun Zhang, Dandan Yu

“…In addition, the effect of CEMIP on tumor growth and the antitumor efficacy of targeting CEMIP in combination with ICB therapy were evaluated in murine models of colorectal cancer.Results We reported that CEMIP specifically downregulated the expression of MHC-I on the surface of murine and human colon cancer cells, hindering the cytotoxicity of CD8+ T cells. …”
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USP14 inhibition by degrasyn induces YAP1 degradation and suppresses the progression of radioresistant esophageal cancer by Fang Yuan, Juan Xu, Lingmei Xuan, Chan Deng, Wei Wang, Rong Yang

“…Ubiquitin-specific peptidase 14 (USP14) is a novel deubiquitinase and can mediate cancer cells’ response to irradiation, although the underlying mechanism remains unclear, including in ESCA. …”
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Immuno-PET Imaging of the Programmed Cell Death-1 Ligand (PD-L1) Using a Zirconium-89 Labeled Therapeutic Antibody, Avelumab by Elaine M. Jagoda PhD, Olga Vasalatiy PhD, Falguni Basuli PhD, Ana Christina L. Opina PhD, Mark R. Williams BS, Karen Wong MS, Kelly C. Lane BS, Steve Adler PhD, Anita Thein Ton MS, Lawrence P. Szajek PhD, Biying Xu PhD, Donna Butcher BS, Elijah F. Edmondson DVM, PhD, Rolf E. Swenson PhD, John Greiner PhD, James Gulley MD, PhD, Janet Eary MD, Peter L. Choyke MD

“…Objective: The goal is to evaluate avelumab, an anti-PD-L1 monoclonal immunoglobulin G antibody labeled with zirconium-89 in human PD-L1-expressing cancer cells and mouse xenografts for clinical translation. …”
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Host-microbe computational proteomic landscape in oral cancer revealed key functional and metabolic pathways between Fusobacterium nucleatum and cancer progression by Camila Paz Muñoz-Grez, Mabel Angélica Vidal, Tamara Beatriz Rojas, Luciano Esteban Ferrada, Felipe Andrés Zuñiga, Agustin Andrés Vera, Sergio Andrés Sanhueza, Romina Andrea Quiroga, Camilo Daniel Cabrera, Barbara Evelyn Antilef, Ricardo Andrés Cartes, Milovan Paolo Acevedo, Marco Andrés Fraga, Pedro Felipe Alarcón-Zapata, Mauricio Alejandro Hernández, Alexis Marcelo Salas-Burgos, Francisco Tapia-Belmonte, Milly Loreto Yáñez, Erick Marcelo Riquelme, Wilfredo Alejandro González, Cesar Andrés Rivera, Angel Alejandro Oñate, Liliana Ivonne Lamperti, Estefanía Nova-Lamperti

“…Then, the microbiome analysis revealed large number and variety of peptides from Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nucleatum) in OSCC samples, from which several enzymes from the L-glutamate degradation pathway were found, indicating that L-glutamate from cancer cells is used as an energy source, and catabolized into butyrate by the bacteria. …”
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Pan-inhibition of super-enhancer-driven oncogenic transcription by next-generation synthetic ecteinascidins yields potent anti-cancer activity by Max Cigrang, Julian Obid, Maguelone Nogaret, Léane Seno, Tao Ye, Guillaume Davidson, Philippe Catez, Pietro Berico, Clara Capelli, Clara Marechal, Amélie Zachayus, Clémence Elly, Marie Jose Guillen Navarro, Marta Martinez Diez, Gema Santamaria Nunez, Tsai-Kun Li, Emmanuel Compe, Pablo Avilés, Irwin Davidson, Jean-Marc Egly, Carmen Cuevas, Frédéric Coin

“…Abstract The plasticity of cancer cells facilitates their ability to adopt heterogeneous differentiation states, posing a significant challenge to therapeutic interventions. …”
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ZC3H15 suppression ameliorates bone cancer pain through inhibiting neuronal oxidative stress and microglial inflammation by Li-Quan Huang, Ting-Xuan Yan, Bao-Sheng Wang, Hao Li, Nai-Bao Zhou

“…Additionally, we used CCK8, cloning, and migration tests to examine the proliferation and migration of cancer cells. We also used transplantation tumor mouse model to investigate the course of the cancer cell growth. …”
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CK2α-mediated phosphorylation of DUB3 promotes YAP1 stability and oncogenic functions by Lei Huang, Yalei Wen, Qin Guo, Caishi Zhang, Xiao Yang, Mei Li, YiXia Liu, Xinying Li, Jiaxin Tang, Xiaofeng Zhou, Qi Qi, Haoxing Zhang, Tongzheng Liu

“…In this study, we perform a high-throughput screening and identify Casein kinase II (CK2) as an uncharacterized upstream regulator of YAP1 turnover in cancer cells of ovarian cancer and several other cancer types. …”
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The microenvironment cell index is a novel indicator for the prognosis and therapeutic regimen selection of cancers by Xian-Yan Yang, Nian Chen, Qian Wen, Yu Zhou, Tao Zhang, Ji Zhou, Cheng-Hui Liang, Li-Ping Han, Xiao-Ya Wang, Qing-Mei Kang, Xiao-Xia Zheng, Xue-Jia Zhai, Hong-Ying Jiang, Tian-Hua Shen, Jin-Wei Xiao, Yu-Xin Zou, Yun Deng, Shuang Lin, Jiang-Jie Duan, Jun Wang, Shi-Cang Yu

“…More importantly, inhibition of the insulin signaling pathway activated in the cancer cells of the MCIhigh the TNBC patients significantly prolonged the survival time of tumor-bearing mice. …”
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GrB-Fc-KS49, an anti-EMP2 granzyme B fusion protein therapeutic alters immune cell infiltration and suppresses breast cancer growth by Ana Alvarez de Cienfuegos, Lawrence H Cheung, Khalid A Mohamedali, Michael G Rosenblum, Brian Aguirre, Cheng-Hsiang Lu, Anubhav Chandla, Nidhi Kejriwal, Lucia Liu, Ann M Chan, SuYin Kok, Sergio Duarte, David Casero, Madhuri Wadehra

“…The fusion protein rapidly internalized into EMP2+cancer cells and showed in vitro cytotoxicity to cell lines expressing surface EMP2, with half-maximal cytotoxicity (IC50) values below 100 nM for most positive lines. …”
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Comprehensive Cellular Senescence Evaluation to Aid Targeted Therapies by Xiaolan Zhou, Xiaofeng Zhu, Weixu Wang, Jing Wang, Haimei Wen, Yuqi Zhao, Jiayu Zhang, Qiushi Xu, Zhaozhao Zhao, Ting Ni

“…As a proof of concept, we experimentally confirmed that etoposide-induced senescence sensitized lung cancer cells to 2 widely used targeted drugs, erlotinib and dasatinib. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Nickel Nanoparticles: Biological and Photocatalytic Properties by Fadliah Fadliah, Indah Raya, Ahyar Ahmad, Paulina Taba, Muhammad Burhanuddinnur, Maming Gaffar, Tri Widayati Putri, Arfiani Nur, Andi Nur Fitriani Abubakar, Rachmin Munadi, Ahmad Fudhail Majid, Irham Pratama, M. Yasser, Sulistiani Jarre, Harningsih Karim

“…Furthermore, nickel nanoparticles' cytotoxic activity demonstrates their capacity to kill cancer cells, and their photocatalytic activity demonstrates their efficiency in breaking down organic contaminants. …”
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PD-1-expressing macrophages and CD8 T cells are independent predictors of clinical benefit from PD-1 inhibition in advanced mesothelioma by Solange Peters, Urania Dafni, Panagiota Zygoura, Sanjay Popat, Mary O'Brien, Rolf A Stahel, Alessandra Curioni-Fontecedro, Georges Coukos, Amy Roy, Riyaz Shah, Krisztian Homicsko, James Spicer, Stephen P Finn, David Gilligan, Maxim Norkin, Stephanie Tissot, Nicholas Shakarishvili, Anthony Pope, Patricia Fisher, Sylvie Rusakiewicz, Ekaterina Fortis, Nesa Marti, Roswitha Kammler

“…Our panel focused on CD8+T cell, CD68+macrophages, and the expression of PD-1 and PD-L1 on these and cancer cells. We analyzed single and double positive cells within cancer tissues (infiltrating immune cells) and in the stroma. …”
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ERRα promotes glycolytic metabolism and targets the NLRP3/caspase-1/GSDMD pathway to regulate pyroptosis in endometrial cancer by Pingping Su, Xiaodan Mao, Jincheng Ma, Lixiang Huang, Lirui Yu, Shuting Tang, Mingzhi Zhuang, Zhonglei Lu, Kelvin Stefan Osafo, Yuan Ren, Xinrui Wang, Xite Lin, Leyi Huang, Xiaoli Huang, Elena Ioana Braicu, Jalid Sehouli, Pengming Sun

“…Results Triggered by a hypoxic microenvironment, highly expressed ERRα could bind to the promoter of NLRP3 and inhibit caspase-1/GSDMD signaling, which reduced inflammasome activation and increased pyroptosis resistance, thereby resulting in the resistance of cancer cells to cisplatin. Moreover, ERRα activated glycolytic rate-limiting enzyme to bridge glycolytic metabolism and pyroptosis in EC. …”
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Luminal epithelial cells integrate variable responses to aging into stereotypical changes that underlie breast cancer susceptibility by Rosalyn W Sayaman, Masaru Miyano, Eric G Carlson, Parijat Senapati, Arrianna Zirbes, Sundus F Shalabi, Michael E Todhunter, Victoria E Seewaldt, Susan L Neuhausen, Martha R Stampfer, Dustin E Schones, Mark A LaBarge

“…We speculate that luminal epithelia are the ultimate site of integration of the variant responses to aging in their surrounding tissue, and that their emergent phenotype both endows cells with the ability to become cancer-cells-of-origin and represents a biosensor that presages cancer susceptibility.…”
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