Photoimmunotherapy(PIT)combines the specificity of antibodies with the cytotoxicity of light activatable photosensitizers(PS)and is a promising new cancer *** designed and synthesized,in a highly convergent manner,the...
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Photoimmunotherapy(PIT)combines the specificity of antibodies with the cytotoxicity of light activatable photosensitizers(PS)and is a promising new cancer *** designed and synthesized,in a highly convergent manner,the silicon phthalocyanine dye WB692-CB2,which is novel for being the first light-activatable PS that can be directly conjugated via a maleimide linker to *** the present study we conjugated WB692-CB2 to a humanized antibody with engineered cysteines in the heavy chains that specifically targets the prostate-specific membrane antigen(PSMA).The resulting antibody dye conjugate revealed high affinity and specificity towards PSMA-expressing prostate cancer cells and induced cell death after irradiation with red *** cells exhibited morphological characteristics associated with *** studies revealed the generation of reactive oxygen species,triggering a cascade of intracellular events involving lipid peroxidation,caspase-1 activation,gasdermin D cleavage and membrane rupture followed by release of pro-inflammatory cellular *** first in vivo experiments,PIT with our antibody dye conjugate led to a significant reduction of tumor growth and enhanced overall survival in mice bearing subcutaneous prostate tumor *** study highlights the future potential of the new phthalocyanine dye WB692-CB2 as PS for the fluorescence-based detection and PIT of cancer,including local prostate tumor lesions,and systemic activation of anti-tumor immune responses by the induction of pyroptosis.
Regulatory T cells(Tregs)promote immune homeostasis by maintaining self-tolerance and regulating inflammatory *** certain inflammatory conditions,Tregs can lose their lineage stability and *** studies have reported th...
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Regulatory T cells(Tregs)promote immune homeostasis by maintaining self-tolerance and regulating inflammatory *** certain inflammatory conditions,Tregs can lose their lineage stability and *** studies have reported that ex vivo exposure to retinoic acid(RA)enhances Treg function and ***,it is unknown how RA receptor signaling in Tregs influences these processes in ***,we employed mouse models in which RA signaling is silenced by the expression of the dominant negative receptor(DN)RARαin all T *** the fact that DNRARαconventional T cells are hypofunctional,Tregs had increased CD25 expression,STAT5 pathway activation,mTORC1 signaling and supersuppressor ***,DNRARαTregs had increased inhibitory molecule expression,amino acid transporter expression,and metabolic fitness and decreased antiapoptotic *** function was observed when wild-type mice were treated with a pharmacologic pan-RAR ***,Treg-specific expression of DNRARαresulted in distinct phenotypes,such that a single allele of DNRARαin Tregs heightened their suppressive function,and biallelic expression led to loss of suppression and *** loss of Treg function was not cell intrinsic,as Tregs that developed in a noninflammatory milieu in chimeric mice reconstituted with DNRARαand wild-type bone marrow maintained the enhanced suppressive *** mapping suggested that maintaining Treg stability in an inflammatory milieu requires RA *** findings indicate that RA signaling acts as a rheostat to balance Treg function in inflammatory and noninflammatory conditions in a dose-dependent manner.
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