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A phase separation-fortified bi-specific adaptor for conditional tumor killing

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Science China(life sciences) 2024年第7期67卷 1385-1397页

作者： Yuyan Liu Yuting Zhu Weifan Xu Pilong Li State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology Frontier Research Center for Biological StructureTsinghua University-Peking University Joint Center for Life SciencesSchool of Life SciencesTsinghua UniversityBeijing 100084China

A common approach in therapeutic protein development involves employing synthetic ligands with multivalency,enabling sophisticated control of signal transduction.Leveraging the emerging concept of liquid-liquid phase separation(LLPS)and its ability to organize cell surface receptors into functional compartments,we herein have designed modular ligands with phase-separation modalities to engineer programmable interreceptor communications and precise control of signal pathways,thus inducing the rapid,potent,and specific apoptosis of tumor cells.Despite their simplicity,these“triggers”,named phase-separated Tumor Killers(hereafter referred to as psTK),are sufficient to yield interreceptor clustering of death receptors(represented by DR5)and tumor-associated receptors,with notable features:LLPSmediated robust high-order organization,well-choreographed conditional activation,and broad-spectrum capacity to potently induce apoptosis in tumor cells.The development of novel therapeutic proteins with phase-separation modalities showcases the power of spatially reorganizing signal transduction.This approach facilitates the diversification of cell fate and holds promising potential for targeted therapies against challenging tumors.

关键词： phase separation therapeutic proteins receptor-ligand interactions DR5 tumor apoptosis

How variable progenitor clones construct a largely invariant neocortex

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National Science Review 2024年第1期11卷 129-144页

作者： Zhongfu Shen Jiajun Yang Qiangqiang Zhang Kuiyu Wang Xiaohui Lv Xiaolin Hu Jian Ma Song-Hai Shi New Cornerstone Science Laboratory IDG/McG overn Institute for Brain Research Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure School of Life Sciences Tsinghua University Department of Computer sciences Tsinghua University College of life sciences Nankai University Chinese Institute for Brain Research

The neocortex contains a vast collection of diverse neurons organized into distinct layers. While nearly all neocortical neurons are generated by radial glial progenitors(RGPs), it remains largely unclear how a complex yet organized neocortex is constructed reliably and robustly. Here, we show that the division behavior and neuronal output of RGPs are highly constrained with patterned variabilities to support the reliable and robust construction of the mouse neocortex. The neurogenic process of RGPs can be well-approximated by a consistent Poisson-like process unfolding over time, producing deep to superficial layer neurons progressively. The exact neuronal outputs regarding layer occupation are variable; yet, this variability is constrained systematically to support all layer formation, largely reflecting the variable intermediate progenitor generation and RGP neurogenic entry and exit timing differences. Together, these results define the fundamental features of neocortical neurogenesis with a balanced reliability and variability for the construction of the complex neocortex.

关键词： neocortex radial glial progenitor intermediate progenitor neurogenesis clonal variability layer formation

Drug repurposing screening and mechanism analysis based on human colorectal cancer organoids

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Protein & Cell 2024年第4期15卷 285-304页

作者： Yunuo Mao Wei Wang Jingwei Yang Xin Zhou Yongqu Lu Junpeng Gao Xiao Wang Lu Wen Wei Fu Fuchou Tang School of life sciences Biomedical Pioneering Innovation CenterDepartment of General SurgeryThird HospitalPeking UniversityBeijing 100871China Beijing Advanced Innovation center for Genomics(ICG) Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and DifferentiationBeijing 100871China peking-Tsinghua center for life sciences Peking UniversityBeijing 100871China peking University Third Hospital Cancer center Beijing 100871China The Research center of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine School of Basic Medical SciencesCheeloo College of MedicineShandong UniversityJinan 250012China

Colorectal cancer(CRC)is a highly heterogeneous cancer and exploring novel therapeutic options is a pressing issue that needs to be addressed.Here,we established human CRC tumor-derived organoids that well represent both morphological and molecular heterogeneities of original tumors.To efficiently identify repurposed drugs for CRC,we developed a robust organoid-based drug screening system.By combining the repurposed drug library and computation-based drug prediction,335 drugs were tested and 34 drugs with anti-CRC effects were identified.More importantly,we conducted a detailed transcriptome analysis of drug responses and divided the drug response signatures into five representative patterns:differentiation induction,growth inhibition,metabolism inhibition,immune response promotion,and cell cycle inhibition.The anticancer activities of drug candidates were further validated in the established patient-derived organoids-based xenograft(PDOX)system in vivo.We found that fedratinib,trametinib,and bortezomib exhibited effective anticancer effects.Furthermore,the concordance and discordance of drug response signatures between organoids in vitro and pairwise PDOX in vivo were evaluated.Our study offers an innovative approach for drug discovery,and the representative transcriptome features of drug responses provide valuable resources for developing novel clinical treatments for CRC.

关键词： colorectal cancer organoids drug repurposing patient-derived organoids-based xenograft mechanism of action

Unsynchronized butyrophilin molecules dictate cancer cell evasion of Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell killing

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Cellular & Molecular Immunology 2024年第4期21卷 362-373页

作者： Zeguang Wu Qiezhong Lamao Meichao Gu Xuanxuan Jin Ying Liu Feng Tian Ying Yu Pengfei Yuan Shuaixin Gao Thomas S.Fulford Adam P.Uldrich Catherine C.L Wong Wensheng Wei Biomedical Pioneering Innovation center Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life SciencesPeking University Genome Editing Research CenterState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene ResearchSchool of Life SciencesPeking University100871BeijingChina EdiGene Inc. Life Science ParkChangping District102206BeijingChina center for Precision Medicine Multi-Omics Research Peking University Health Science CenterPeking University100191BeijingChina Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity The University of MelbourneParkvilleVIC3010Australia Cancer Immunology Program Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreMelbourneVICAustralia State Key Laboratory for Complex Severe and Rare DiseasesClinical Research InstitutePeking Union Medical College HospitalChinese Academy of Medical Science&Peking Union Medical CollegePeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences100871BeijingChina

Vγ9Vδ2 T cells are specialized effector cells that have gained prominence as immunotherapy agents due to their ability to target and kill cells with altered pyrophosphate metabolites.In our effort to understand how cancer cells evade the cell-killing activity of Vγ9Vδ2 T cells,we performed a comprehensive genome-scale CRISPR screening of cancer cells.We found that four molecules belonging to the butyrophilin(BTN)family,specifically BTN2A1,BTN3A1,BTN3A2,and BTN3A3,are critically important and play unique,nonoverlapping roles in facilitating the destruction of cancer cells by primary Vγ9Vδ2 T cells.The coordinated function of these BTN molecules was driven by synchronized gene expression,which was regulated by IFN-γsignaling and the RFX complex.Additionally,an enzyme called QPCTL was shown to play a key role in modifying the N-terminal glutamine of these BTN proteins and was found to be a crucial factor in Vγ9Vδ2 T cell killing of cancer cells.Through our research,we offer a detailed overview of the functional genomic mechanisms that underlie how cancer cells escape Vγ9Vδ2 T cells.Moreover,our findings shed light on the importance of the harmonized expression and function of gene family members in modulating T-cell activity.

关键词： Butyrophilin Vγ9Vδ2 T-cell Cancer-specific immune evasion Glutaminyl-peptide cyclotransferase-like Pyrophosphate metabolite Immunotherapy

Long non-coding RNAs with essential roles in neurodegenerative disorders

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第6期19卷 1212-1220页

作者： Wandi Xiong Lin Lu Jiali Li Key Laboratory of Animal Models and Human Disease Mechanisms of Chinese Academy of sciences & Yunnan Province Kunming Institute of Zoology the Chinese Academy of Sciences Tsinghua-peking center for life sciences National Institute on Drug Dependence Peking University PKU/McGovern Institute for Brain Research Peking University Institute of Mental Health National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Peking University Sixth Hospital Peking University

Recently, with the advent of high-resolution and high-throughput sequencing technologies, an increasing number of long non-coding RNAs(lncRNAs) have been found to be involved in the regulation of neuronal function in the central nervous system with specific spatiotemporal patterns, across different neurodegenerative diseases. However, the underlying mechanisms of lncRNAs during neurodegeneration remain poorly understood. This review provides an overview of the current knowledge of the biology of lncRNAs and focuses on introducing the latest identified roles, regulatory mechanisms, and research status of lncRNAs in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Finally, this review discusses the potential values of lncRNAs as diagnostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets for neurodegenerative diseases, hoping to provide broader implications for developing effective treatments.

关键词： Alzheimer's disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis biomarker Huntington's disease long non-coding RNAs neurodegenerative diseases Parkinson's disease therapy transcriptional regulation translational regulation

An effective pharmacological hydrogel induces optic nerve repair and improves visual function

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Science China(life sciences) 2024年第3期67卷 529-542页

作者： Lipeng Wang Shan Zhang Yawen Han Shuo Tang Jiarui Li Lina Bu Dongyu Zhao Hongkui Deng Department of Cell Biology Schoolof Basic Medical SciencesPeking University Stem Cell Research CenterStateKey Laboratoryof Naturaland Biomimetic DrugsPeking University Health Science Center Beijing 100191China MOE Key Laboratory of Cell Proliferation and Differentiation College of Life SciencesPeking-Tsinghua Center for Life SciencesPeking UniversityBeijing 100871China Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies Peking UniversityBeijing 100871China Changping Laboratory Beijing 102206China Department of Ophthalmology Peking University People's Hospital Eye Diseases and Optometry InstituteBeijing 100871China Department of Biomedical Informatics School of Basic Medical SciencesPeking UniversityBeijing 100191China

Irreversible eye lesions, such as glaucoma and traumatic optic neuropathy, can cause blindness;however, no effective treatments exist. The optic nerve, in particular, lacks the capacity to spontaneously regenerate, requiring the development of an effective approach for optic nerve repair, which has proven challenging. Here, we demonstrate that a combination of the small molecules 3BDO and trichostatin A(TSA)—which regulate mTOR and HDAC, respectively—packaged in thermosensitive hydrogel for 4-week-sustained release after intravitreal injection, effectively induced optic nerve regeneration in a mouse model of optic nerve crush injury. Moreover, this combination of 3BDO and TSA also protected axon projections and improved visual responses in an old mouse model(11 months old) of glaucoma. Taken together, our data provide a new, local small molecule-based treatment for the effective induction of optic nerve repair, which may represent a foundation for the development of pharmacological methods to treat irreversible eye diseases.

关键词： retinal ganglion cell axon regeneration old-age glaucoma small molecules pharmacological hydrogel visual function repair

CircPTEN-MT from PTEN regulates mitochondrial energy metabolism

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Journal of Genetics and Genomics 2024年第5期51卷 531-542页

作者： Danhui Ruan Jiancheng Xu Yang Liu Juan Luo Xuyang Zhao Yuhua Li Guangxi Wang Jiawen Feng Hui Liang Yue Yin Jianyuan Luo Yuxin Yin Institute of Systems Biomedicine Department of PathologySchool of Basic Medical SciencesBeijing Key Laboratory of Tumor Systems BiologyPeking University International Cancer InstitutePeking-Tsinghua Center of Life SciencesPeking University Health Science CenterBeijing 100191China Institute of Precision Medicine Peking University Shenzhen HospitalShenzhenGuangdong 518036China Department of Pharmacology School of Basic Medical SciencesPeking University Health Science CenterBeijing 100191China Department of Medical Genetics Center for Medical GeneticsSchool of Basic Medical SciencesPeking University Health Science CenterBeijing 100191China Soochow University Cancer Institute SuzhouJiangsu 215127China

Phosphatase and tensin homolog(PTEN)is a multifunctional gene involved in a variety of physiological and pathological processes.Circular RNAs(circRNAs)are generated from back-splicing events during mRNA processing and participate in cell biological processes through binding to RNAs or proteins.However,PTEN-related circRNAs are largely unknown.Here,we report that circPTEN-mitochondria(MT)(hsa_circ_0002934)is a circular RNA encoded by exons 3,4,and 5 of PTEN and is a critical regulator of mitochondrial energy metabolism.CircPTEN-MT is localized to mitochondria and physically associated with leucine-rich pentatricopeptide repeat-containing protein(LRPPRC),which regulates posttranscriptional gene expression in mitochondria.Knocking down circPTEN-MT reduces the interaction of LRPPRC and steroid receptor RNA activator(SRA)stem-loop interacting RNA binding protein(SLIRP)and inhibits the polyadenylation of mitochondrial mRNA,which decreases the mRNA level of the mitochondrial complex I subunit and reduces mitochondrial membrane potential and adenosine triphosphate production.Our data demonstrate that circPTEN-MT is an important regulator of cellular energy metabolism.This study expands our understanding of the role of PTEN,which produces both linear and circular RNAs with different and independent functions.

关键词： Circular RNA LRPPRC Mitochondrial energy metabolism mtDNApost-transcriptional regulation

Coordinate-wise monotonic transformations enable privacy-preserving age estimation with 3D face point cloud

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Science China(life sciences) 2024年第7期67卷 1489-1501页

作者： Xinyu Yang Runhan Li Xindi Yang Yong Zhou Yi Liu Jing-Dong J.Han School of life sciences Peking UniversityBeijing 100871China peking-Tsinghua center for life sciences Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary StudiesCenter for Quantitative Biology(CQB)Peking UniversityBeijing 100871China Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis and Mining School of Computer and Information TechnologyBeijing Jiaotong UniversityBeijing 100044China Clinical Research Institute Shanghai General HospitalShanghai Jiao Tong University School of MedicineShanghai 200025China

The human face is a valuable biomarker of aging,but the collection and use of its image raise significant privacy concerns.Here we present an approach for facial data masking that preserves age-related features using coordinate-wise monotonic transformations.We first develop a deep learning model that estimates age directly from non-registered face point clouds with high accuracy and generalizability.We show that the model learns a highly indistinguishable mapping using faces treated with coordinate-wise monotonic transformations,indicating that the relative positioning of facial information is a low-level biomarker of facial aging.Through visual perception tests and computational3D face verification experiments,we demonstrate that transformed faces are significantly more difficult to perceive for human but not for machines,except when only the face shape information is accessible.Our study leads to a facial data protection guideline that has the potential to broaden public access to face datasets with minimized privacy risks.

关键词： face point cloud age estimation face verification privacy coordinate-wise monotonic transformation

A commentary of“Initial DNA melting in human DNA replication initiation”:Top 10 Scientific Advances of 2023,China

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Fundamental Research 2024年第3期4卷 701-703页

作者： Ningning Li Ning Gao State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life SciencesSchool of Life SciencesPeking UniversityBeijing 100871China

DNA replication is a complicated process involving several dozens of factors.The molecular machine of eukaryotic DNA replication,replisome,consists of at least three essential modules:one replicative DNA helicase CMG(Cdc45-MCM-GINS)and two sets of DNA polymerase complexes responsible for the synthesis of the leading and lagging strands,respectively.As the core of CMG,MCM is a ring-shaped helicase motor composed of six homologous AAA+ATPase subunits,Mcm2 to Mcm7.The human genome is enormous,with over 3 billion base pairs.To efficiently duplicate the entire genome within a limited time,DNA replication is initiated from more than 25,000 discrete sites simultaneously.

关键词： DNA initiated shaped