Cell DiscoveryPub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1038/s41421-024-00713-9
Yuehua Liu, Xiaoqian Nie, Xingyun Yao, Huafeng Shou, Yang Yuan, Yun Ge, Xiangmin Tong, Hsiang-Ying Lee, Xiaofei Gao
{"title":"Developing an erythrocyte‒MHC-I conjugate for cancer treatment.","authors":"Yuehua Liu, Xiaoqian Nie, Xingyun Yao, Huafeng Shou, Yang Yuan, Yun Ge, Xiangmin Tong, Hsiang-Ying Lee, Xiaofei Gao","doi":"10.1038/s41421-024-00713-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41421-024-00713-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mature erythrocytes are known to lack major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins. However, the presence of MHC molecules on erythrocytes has been occasionally reported, though without a defined function. In this study, we designed erythrocyte conjugated solely with a fusion protein consisting of an antigenic peptide linked to MHC class I (MHC-I) protein, termed MHC-I‒Ery. The modified erythrocyte, decorated with the peptide derived from human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 oncoprotein E6/E7, effectively activated antigen-specific CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from HPV16<sup>+</sup> cervical cancer patients. Additionally, MHC-I‒Ery monotherapy was shown to inhibit antigen-positive tumor growth in mice. This treatment immediately activated CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells and reduced suppressive myeloid cells in the spleen, leading to systemic anti-tumor activity. Safety and tolerability evaluations of MHC-I‒Ery in non-human primates further supported its clinical potential. Our results first demonstrated that erythrocytes equipped solely with antigen peptide‒MHC-I complexes can robustly stimulate the immune system, suggesting a novel and promising approach for advancing cancer immunotherapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":9674,"journal":{"name":"Cell Discovery","volume":"10 1","pages":"99"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11443136/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142342290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell DiscoveryPub Date : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1038/s41421-024-00719-3
Fan Zhai, Siming Kong, Shi Song, Qianying Guo, Ling Ding, Jiaqi Zhang, Nan Wang, Ying Kuo, Shuo Guan, Peng Yuan, Liying Yan, Zhiqiang Yan, Jie Qiao
{"title":"Human embryos harbor complex mosaicism with broad presence of aneuploid cells during early development.","authors":"Fan Zhai, Siming Kong, Shi Song, Qianying Guo, Ling Ding, Jiaqi Zhang, Nan Wang, Ying Kuo, Shuo Guan, Peng Yuan, Liying Yan, Zhiqiang Yan, Jie Qiao","doi":"10.1038/s41421-024-00719-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41421-024-00719-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pre-implantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) is used in approximately half of in vitro fertilization cycles. Given the limited understanding of the genetics of human embryos, the current use of PGT-A is based on biologically uncertain assumptions and unvalidated guidelines, leading to the possibility of disposing of embryos with pregnancy potential. We isolated and sequenced all single cells (1133) from in vitro cultured 20 human blastocysts. We found that all blastocysts exhibited mosaicism with mitotic-induced aneuploid cells and showed an ~25% aneuploidy rate per embryo. Moreover, 70% (14/20) of blastocysts contained 'chromosome-complementary' cells, suggesting genetic mosaicism is underestimated in routine PGT-A. Additionally, the analysis of 20,945 single cells from day 8-14 embryos (in vitro cultured) and embryonic/fetal organs showed that 97% of the analyzed embryos/organs were mosaic. Over 96% of their aneuploid cells harbored ≤ 2 chromosome errors. Our findings have revealed a high prevalence of mosaicism in human embryos.</p>","PeriodicalId":9674,"journal":{"name":"Cell Discovery","volume":"10 1","pages":"98"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11420220/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142307180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spermidine-eIF5A axis is essential for muscle stem cell activation via translational control","authors":"Qianying Zhang, Wanhong Han, Rimao Wu, Shixian Deng, Jiemiao Meng, Yuanping Yang, Lili Li, Mingwei Sun, Heng Ai, Yingxi Chen, Qinyao Liu, Tian Gao, Xingchen Niu, Haixia Liu, Li Zhang, Dan Zhang, Meihong Chen, Pengbin Yin, Licheng Zhang, Peifu Tang, Dahai Zhu, Yong Zhang, Hu Li","doi":"10.1038/s41421-024-00712-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41421-024-00712-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adult skeletal muscle stem cells, also known satellite cells (SCs), are quiescent and activate in response to injury. However, the activation mechanisms of quiescent SCs (QSCs) remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated the metabolic regulation of SC activation by identifying regulatory metabolites that promote SC activation. Using targeted metabolomics, we found that spermidine acts as a regulatory metabolite to promote SC activation and muscle regeneration in mice. Mechanistically, spermidine activates SCs via generating hypusinated eIF5A. Using SC-specific <i>eIF5A</i>-knockout (KO) and <i>Myod</i>-KO mice, we further found that eIF5A is required for spermidine-mediated SC activation by controlling MyoD translation. More significantly, depletion of eIF5A in SCs results in impaired muscle regeneration in mice. Together, the findings of our study define a novel mechanism that is essential for SC activation and acts via spermidine-eIF5A-mediated MyoD translation. Our findings suggest that the spermidine-eIF5A axis represents a promising pharmacological target in efforts to activate endogenous SCs for the treatment of muscular disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":9674,"journal":{"name":"Cell Discovery","volume":"400 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":33.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142180176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell DiscoveryPub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1038/s41421-024-00703-x
Ying Jin, Yuefeng Wu, Alexandre Reuben, Liang Zhu, Carl M Gay, Qingzhe Wu, Xintong Zhou, Haomin Mo, Qi Zheng, Junyu Ren, Zhaoyuan Fang, Teng Peng, Nan Wang, Liang Ma, Yun Fan, Hai Song, Jianjun Zhang, Ming Chen
{"title":"Single-cell and spatial proteo-transcriptomic profiling reveals immune infiltration heterogeneity associated with neuroendocrine features in small cell lung cancer.","authors":"Ying Jin, Yuefeng Wu, Alexandre Reuben, Liang Zhu, Carl M Gay, Qingzhe Wu, Xintong Zhou, Haomin Mo, Qi Zheng, Junyu Ren, Zhaoyuan Fang, Teng Peng, Nan Wang, Liang Ma, Yun Fan, Hai Song, Jianjun Zhang, Ming Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41421-024-00703-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41421-024-00703-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive pulmonary neuroendocrine malignancy featured by cold tumor immune microenvironment (TIME), limited benefit from immunotherapy, and poor survival. The spatial heterogeneity of TIME significantly associated with anti-tumor immunity has not been systemically studied in SCLC. We performed ultra-high-plex Digital Spatial Profiling on 132 tissue microarray cores from 44 treatment-naive limited-stage SCLC tumors. Incorporating single-cell RNA-sequencing data from a local cohort and published SCLC data, we established a spatial proteo-transcriptomic landscape covering over 18,000 genes and 60 key immuno-oncology proteins that participate in signaling pathways affecting tumorigenesis, immune regulation, and cancer metabolism across 3 pathologically defined spatial compartments (pan-CK-positive tumor nest; CD45/CD3-positive tumor stroma; para-tumor). Our study depicted the spatial transcriptomic and proteomic TIME architecture of SCLC, indicating clear intra-tumor heterogeneity dictated via canonical neuroendocrine subtyping markers; revealed the enrichment of innate immune cells and functionally impaired B cells in tumor nest and suggested potentially important immunoregulatory roles of monocytes/macrophages. We identified RE1 silencing factor (REST) as a potential biomarker for SCLC associated with low neuroendocrine features, more active anti-tumor immunity, and prolonged survival.</p>","PeriodicalId":9674,"journal":{"name":"Cell Discovery","volume":"10 1","pages":"93"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11375181/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142131908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell DiscoveryPub Date : 2024-09-03DOI: 10.1038/s41421-024-00722-8
Yang Li, Zhi-Peng Chen, Da Xu, Liang Wang, Meng-Ting Cheng, Cong-Zhao Zhou, Yuxing Chen, Wen-Tao Hou
{"title":"Structural insights into human ABCD3-mediated peroxisomal acyl-CoA translocation.","authors":"Yang Li, Zhi-Peng Chen, Da Xu, Liang Wang, Meng-Ting Cheng, Cong-Zhao Zhou, Yuxing Chen, Wen-Tao Hou","doi":"10.1038/s41421-024-00722-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41421-024-00722-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Human ABC transporters ABCD1-3 are all localized on the peroxisomal membrane and participate in the β-oxidation of fatty acyl-CoAs, but they differ from each other in substrate specificity. The transport of branched-chain fatty acids from cytosol to peroxisome is specifically driven by ABCD3, dysfunction of which causes severe liver diseases such as hepatosplenomegaly. Here we report two cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of ABCD3 bound to phytanoyl-CoA and ATP at resolutions of 2.9 Å and 3.2 Å, respectively. A pair of phytanoyl-CoA molecules were observed in ABCD3, each binding to one transmembrane domain (TMD), which is distinct from our previously reported structure of ABCD1, where each fatty acyl-CoA molecule strongly crosslinks two TMDs. Upon ATP binding, ABCD3 exhibits a conformation that is open towards the peroxisomal matrix, leaving two extra densities corresponding to two CoA molecules deeply embedded in the translocation cavity. Structural analysis combined with substrate-stimulated ATPase activity assays indicated that the present structures might represent two states of ABCD3 in the transport cycle. These findings advance our understanding of fatty acid oxidation and the molecular pathology of related diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":9674,"journal":{"name":"Cell Discovery","volume":"10 1","pages":"92"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11369193/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142119104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell DiscoveryPub Date : 2024-08-27DOI: 10.1038/s41421-024-00709-5
Hao Li, Yu Du, Kaiwen Cheng, Yuxi Chen, Ling Wei, Yujun Pei, Xiaoyu Wang, Lan Wang, Ye Zhang, Xiaoxin Hu, Yi Lu, Xiangjia Zhu
{"title":"Gut microbiota-derived indole-3-acetic acid suppresses high myopia progression by promoting type I collagen synthesis.","authors":"Hao Li, Yu Du, Kaiwen Cheng, Yuxi Chen, Ling Wei, Yujun Pei, Xiaoyu Wang, Lan Wang, Ye Zhang, Xiaoxin Hu, Yi Lu, Xiangjia Zhu","doi":"10.1038/s41421-024-00709-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41421-024-00709-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High myopia (HM) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide with currently no effective interventions available. A major hurdle lies in its often isolated perception as a purely ocular morbidity, disregarding potential systemic implications. Recent evidence suggests the existence of a gut-eye axis; however, the role of gut microbiota in the pathogenesis of HM remains largely unexplored. Herein, we provide a potential crosstalk among HM's gut dysbiosis, microbial metabolites, and scleral remodeling. Utilizing 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we observed an altered gut microbiota profile in HM patients with a significant reduction in probiotic abundance compared with healthy controls. Subsequent targeted metabolic profiling revealed a notable decrease in plasma levels of the gut microbiota-derived metabolite indole-3-acetic acid (3-IAA) among HM patients, which is closely associated with the reduced probiotics, both negatively correlated with HM severity. Genetic analyses determined that gut microbiota are causally associated with myopia risk. Importantly, when mice subjected to HM modeling receive fecal microbiota transplantation from healthy donors, there is an increase in 3-IAA plasma levels and simultaneous retardation of HM progression along with better maintenance of collagen type I alpha 1 (COL1A1) expression in the sclera. Furthermore, 3-IAA gavage achieves similar effects. Mechanistic investigations confirm the transcriptional activation of COL1A1 by 3-IAA via promoting the enrichment of SP1 to its promoter. Together, our findings provide novel insights into the gut microbiota-eye axis in the pathogenesis of HM and propose new strategies for HM intervention by remodeling the gut microbiota and indole supplementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":9674,"journal":{"name":"Cell Discovery","volume":"10 1","pages":"89"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11347609/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142072138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cell DiscoveryPub Date : 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1038/s41421-024-00707-7
Kailun Xu, Xiaoyang Yin, Hui Chen, Yuhui Huang, Xi Zheng, Biting Zhou, Xue Cai, Huanhuan Gao, Miaomiao Tian, Sijun Hu, Shu Zheng, Changzheng Yuan, Yongzhan Nie, Tiannan Guo, Yingkuan Shao
{"title":"Prediction of overall survival in stage II and III colon cancer through machine learning of rapidly-acquired proteomics.","authors":"Kailun Xu, Xiaoyang Yin, Hui Chen, Yuhui Huang, Xi Zheng, Biting Zhou, Xue Cai, Huanhuan Gao, Miaomiao Tian, Sijun Hu, Shu Zheng, Changzheng Yuan, Yongzhan Nie, Tiannan Guo, Yingkuan Shao","doi":"10.1038/s41421-024-00707-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41421-024-00707-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9674,"journal":{"name":"Cell Discovery","volume":"10 1","pages":"85"},"PeriodicalIF":13.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11319451/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141970695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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