[HTML][HTML] Targeting FTO suppresses cancer stem cell maintenance and immune evasion

R Su, L Dong, Y Li, M Gao, L Han, M Wunderlich…�- Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO), an RNA N 6-methyladenosine (m 6 A)
demethylase, plays oncogenic roles in various cancers, presenting an opportunity for the�…

[HTML][HTML] Genetic screens identify host factors for SARS-CoV-2 and common cold coronaviruses

R Wang, CR Simoneau, J Kulsuptrakul, M Bouhaddou…�- Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The Coronaviridae are a family of viruses that cause disease in humans ranging from mild
respiratory infection to potentially lethal acute respiratory distress syndrome. Finding host�…

Hypoxic niches attract and sequester tumor-associated macrophages and cytotoxic T cells and reprogram them for immunosuppression

A Sattiraju, S Kang, B Giotti, Z Chen, VJ Marallano…�- Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM), a highly lethal brain cancer, is notorious for immunosuppression, but
the mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we documented a temporospatial patterning of tumor�…

[HTML][HTML] Mitochondrial dysfunction induces senescence with a distinct secretory phenotype

CD Wiley, MC Velarde, P Lecot, SU Liu, EA Sarnoski…�- Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Cellular senescence permanently arrests cell proliferation, often accompanied by a multi-
faceted senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Loss of mitochondrial function�…

Lung fibroblasts facilitate pre-metastatic niche formation by remodeling the local immune microenvironment

Z Gong, Q Li, J Shi, J Wei, P Li, CH Chang, LD Shultz…�- Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
Primary tumors are drivers of pre-metastatic niche formation, but the coordination by the
secondary organ toward metastatic dissemination is underappreciated. Here, by single-cell�…

Cancer cells induce metastasis-supporting neutrophil extracellular DNA traps

J Park, RW Wysocki, Z Amoozgar, L Maiorino…�- Science translational�…, 2016 - science.org
Neutrophils, the most abundant type of leukocytes in blood, can form neutrophil extracellular
traps (NETs). These are pathogen-trapping structures generated by expulsion of the�…

Endocytosis of extracellular vesicles and release of their cargo from endosomes

BS Joshi, MA de Beer, BNG Giepmans, IS Zuhorn�- ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), such as exosomes, can mediate long-distance communication
between cells by delivering biomolecular cargo. It is speculated that EVs undergo back�…

Gene essentiality and synthetic lethality in haploid human cells

VA Blomen, P M�jek, LT Jae, JW Bigenzahn…�- Science, 2015 - science.org
Although the genes essential for life have been identified in less complex model organisms,
their elucidation in human cells has been hindered by technical barriers. We used extensive�…

[HTML][HTML] R-2-hydroxyglutarate attenuates aerobic glycolysis in leukemia by targeting the FTO/m6A/PFKP/LDHB axis

Y Qing, L Dong, L Gao, C Li, Y Li, L Han, E Prince…�- Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary R-2-hydroxyglutarate (R-2HG), a metabolite produced by mutant isocitrate
dehydrogenases (IDHs), was recently reported to exhibit anti-tumor activity. However, its�…

[HTML][HTML] Telomere-to-mitochondria signalling by ZBP1 mediates replicative crisis

J Nassour, LG Aguiar, A Correia, TT Schmidt, L Mainz…�- Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cancers arise through the accumulation of genetic and epigenetic alterations that enable
cells to evade telomere-based proliferative barriers and achieve immortality. One such�…