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Oncoimmunology
December 2025
Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
The adenosinergic pathway converting endogenous ATP to adenosine (ADO) is a major immunosuppressive pathway in cancer. Emerging data indicate that plasma small extracellular vesicles (sEV) express CD39 and CD73 and produce ADO. Using a noninvasive, highly sensitive newly developed assay, metabolism of N-etheno-labeled eATP, eADP or eAMP by ecto-nucleotidases on the external surface of sEV was measured using high pressure liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection.
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May 2025
State Key Laboratory of Radiation Medicine and Protection, School of Radiation Medicine and Protection & School for Radiological and Interdisciplinary Sciences (RAD-X), Collaborative Innovation Center of Radiation Medicine of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China. Electronic address:
Radiotherapy (RT) can trigger immunogenic cell death (ICD) in tumor cells and release adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to activate antitumor immunity. However, the formation of immunosuppressive adenosine (ADO) mediated by ectonucleotidases including CD39 and CD73, can exacerbate the immunosuppressive effects. Herein, a radiosensitizer-based metal-organic framework (MOF) composed of bismuth (Bi) and ellagic acid (EA) was synthesized in situ on the surface of Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 (EcN) to serve as a carrier for the CD39 inhibitor sodium polyoxotungstate (POM-1).
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December 2024
Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), Pôle Chimie Balard, Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, 34293, Montpellier, France.
Various series of 4,6-disubstituted-2-thiopyridine derivatives were synthesized and evaluated as potential ecto-5'-nucleotidase (CD73) inhibitors. Altogether, about ninety compounds were prepared using a general synthetic pathway involving one or two steps (eventually one-pot) procedures. Variation of the nature of the substituents in positions 4 and 6 (methyl, trifluoromethyl or phenyl) of the thiopurine ring, as well as on the thiol function, was examined and led to marked differences both in term of reactivity and ability to interfere with the putative target protein.
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December 2024
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Biological and Veterinary Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Lwowska 1, 87-100 Toruń, Poland. Electronic address:
Retinoic acid (RA) is a small, lipophilic molecule that inhibits cell proliferation and induces differentiation through activation of a family of nuclear receptors (RARs). The therapeutic potential of RA in the treatment of glioma was first evaluated two decades ago, but these attempts were considered not conclusive. Based on the complexity of tumor microenvironment and the role of purinergic signals within TME, we aimed to support RA-induced alterations in glioma cells with extracellular ATP.
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October 2024
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Diseases, Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY 10029, The United States.
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common cancer and second leading cause of cancer death in American men. Most patients with metastatic disease respond initially to androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), but almost inevitably progress to castration resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Identification of markers and drivers of mCRPC that (a) represent a progenitor-type cancer cell population (b) persist in castration resistant disease (c) are actionable targets expressed on the cell surface, and (d) are induced by hypoxia, is required to facilitate the development of novel targeted therapies.
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