Fabry-Perot-resonator-coupled metal pattern metamaterial for infrared suppression and radiative cooling.

The most intuitive approach for infrared stealth, namely, the indiscriminate suppression of thermal radiation, is often at the risk of overheating the target. Spectrally selective metamaterials may solve this problem by satisfying radiative cooling as well as infrared suppression. Therefore, we have designed and fabricated a broadband metamaterial by depositing a Fabry-Perot (F-P) resonator on top of a metal pattern.

A Tumor-Specific Super-Enhancer Drives Immune Evasion by Guiding Synchronous Expression of PD-L1 and PD-L2.

PD-L1 and PD-L2 are important targets for immune checkpoint blockade, but how tumor cells achieve their expression remains to be addressed. Here, we find that PD-L1 and PD-L2 are co-expressed in cancer cell lines and tissues across different cancer types. In breast cancer, MDA-MB-231 and SUM-159 cells show high expression of both PD-L1 and PD-L2.

TAK1 is a druggable kinase for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common form of lymphoma, and up to 30% DLBCL patients eventually died by using first-line chemotherapy regimens. Currently, Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor (ibrutinib) is one of the most promising medicine in clinical trials for DLBCL, to which about 25% of patients with relapsed or refractory DLBCL are responsive. Thus, it is urgent to discover new druggable targets for DLBCL, especially for patients who are unresponsive to first-line chemotherapy and ibrutinib.

Targeting liquid-liquid phase separation in pancreatic cancer.

Background: Accumulated evidence suggests a critical role of protein-mediated liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) in many key biological processes through organization of membrane-less compartments. However, the pathological role of protein-mediated LLPS remains elusive and it is unknown whether protein-mediated LLPS contributes to carcinogenesis.

Methods: HPDE6-C7, BxPC-3, PANC-1, AsPC-1 and CFPAC-1 cells were treated with the LLPS inhibitor, 1,6-hexanediol.

Enhancer RNAs: a missing regulatory layer in gene transcription.

Enhancers and super-enhancers exert indispensable roles in maintaining cell identity through spatiotemporally regulating gene transcription. Meanwhile, active enhancers and super-enhancers also produce transcripts termed enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) from their DNA elements. Although enhancers have been identified for more than 30 years, widespread transcription from enhancers are just discovered by genome-wide sequencing and considered as the key to understand longstanding questions in gene transcription.

A super-enhancer maintains homeostatic expression of Regnase-1.

Regnase-1 is not only a key component in maintaining intracellular homeostasis but also a critical negative regulator in preventing autoimmune diseases and cancer development. To keep homeostatic state, Regnase-1 has to be maintained at a desired level in multiple cell types. However, the molecular mechanism of keeping a certain transcriptional level of Reganase-1 is largely unknown.