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Cells, Volume 12, Issue 12

2023 June-2 - 117 articles

Cover Story: The costimulatory TNFRs on T cells have emerged as promising targets for cancer immunotherapy, although there are still details to be discovered. To clarify the functional significance of four different TNFRs—OX40, 4-1BB, CD27 and GITR—we prepared corresponding single-chain TNF ligand proteins (scTNFLs) connected to the IgG Fc domain, i.e., Fc−scOX40L, Fc−sc4-1BBL, Fc−scCD27L (CD70) and Fc−scGITRL, forming a hexameric TNFL structure. Without intentional cross-linking, these soluble Fc−scTNFLs bound to corresponding TNFRs activated NF-kB and promoted proliferative and cytokine responses of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells with different dose-dependencies. Our findings would be valuable for investigators conducting basic research in cancer immunology, in addition to having implications for T cell-mediated immune regulation using designer TNFLs. View this paper
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Articles (117)

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,385 Views
12 Pages

Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

  • James Saleeb-Mousa,
  • Demitris Nathanael,
  • Andrew M. Coney,
  • Manish Kalla,
  • Keith L. Brain and
  • Andrew P. Holmes

19 June 2023

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a strong independent risk factor for atrial fibrillation (AF). Emerging clinical data cite adverse effects of OSA on AF induction, maintenance, disease severity, and responsiveness to treatment. Prevention using cont...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,571 Views
15 Pages

18 June 2023

Plasma membrane repair is an essential cellular mechanism that reseals membrane disruptions after a variety of insults, and compromised repair capacity can contribute to the progression of many diseases. Neurodegenerative diseases are marked by membr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,256 Views
18 Pages

18 June 2023

Elaborate bioreactor cultivation or expensive growth factor supplementation can enhance extracellular matrix production in engineered neocartilage to provide sufficient mechanical resistance. We here investigated whether raising extracellular calcium...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,260 Views
20 Pages

Targeted Deletion of Thymosin Beta 4 in Hepatic Stellate Cells Ameliorates Liver Fibrosis in a Transgenic Mouse Model

  • Jieun Kim,
  • Chanbin Lee,
  • Jinsol Han,
  • Hayeong Jeong,
  • Sihyung Wang,
  • Yung Hyun Choi and
  • Youngmi Jung

18 June 2023

Liver fibrosis is the most common feature of liver disease, and activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are the main contributors to liver fibrosis. Thus, finding key targets that modulate HSC activation is important to prevent liver fibrosis. Previo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,238 Views
13 Pages

Molecular Mechanisms of Colorectal Liver Metastases

  • Diamantis I. Tsilimigras,
  • Ioannis Ntanasis-Stathopoulos and
  • Timothy M. Pawlik

18 June 2023

The liver is the most frequently target for metastasis among patients with colorectal cancer mainly because of the portal vein circulation that directly connects the colon and rectum with the liver. The liver tumor microenvironment consists of differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,514 Views
23 Pages

The Effects of Growth Modification on Pollen Development in Spring Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Genotypes with Contrasting Drought Tolerance

  • Piotr Ogrodowicz,
  • Maria Katarzyna Wojciechowicz,
  • Anetta Kuczyńska,
  • Paweł Krajewski and
  • Michał Kempa

18 June 2023

Drought stress inducing pollen sterility can reduce crop yield worldwide. The regulatory crosstalk associated with the effects of drought on pollen formation at the cellular level has not been explored in detail so far. In this study, we performed mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,453 Views
22 Pages

Human Adult Renal Progenitor Cells Prevent Cisplatin-Nephrotoxicity by Inducing CYP1B1 Overexpression and miR-27b-3p Down-Regulation through Extracellular Vesicles

  • Rossana Franzin,
  • Alessandra Stasi,
  • Giuseppe De Palma,
  • Angela Picerno,
  • Claudia Curci,
  • Serena Sebastiano,
  • Monica Campioni,
  • Antonella Cicirelli,
  • Alessandro Rizzo and
  • Fabio Sallustio
  • + 5 authors

17 June 2023

Cisplatin is one of the most effective chemotherapeutic agents strongly associated with nephrotoxicity. Tubular adult renal progenitor cells (tARPC) can regenerate functional tubules and participate in the repair processes after cisplatin exposition....

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,414 Views
24 Pages

Pathophysiological Roles of the TRPV4 Channel in the Heart

  • Sébastien Chaigne,
  • Solène Barbeau,
  • Thomas Ducret,
  • Romain Guinamard and
  • David Benoist

17 June 2023

The transient receptor potential vanilloid 4 (TRPV4) channel is a non-selective cation channel that is mostly permeable to calcium (Ca2+), which participates in intracellular Ca2+ handling in cardiac cells. It is widely expressed through the body and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,721 Views
20 Pages

17 June 2023

The poor prognosis of HNSCC is partly due to treatment resistance. The SMAC mimetic Xevinapant is a promising new approach to targeted cancer therapy. Xevinapant inhibits cIAP1/2 and XIAP, leading to apoptosis, necroptosis and inhibition of prosurviv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,664 Views
14 Pages

Induction of Senescence by Loss of Gata4 in Cardiac Fibroblasts

  • Zhentao Zhang,
  • Gabriella Shayani,
  • Yanping Xu,
  • Ashley Kim,
  • Yurim Hong,
  • Haiyue Feng and
  • Hua Zhu

17 June 2023

Cardiac fibroblasts are a major source of cardiac fibrosis during heart repair processes in various heart diseases. Although it has been shown that cardiac fibroblasts become senescent in response to heart injury, it is unknown how the senescence of...

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