Project description:Cellular senescence, a stable cell growth arrest, can have dual effects in tumors, either suppressing or promoting tumor progression. The Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype (SASP), released by senescent cells, plays a crucial role in this dichotomy. Consequently, the clinical challenge lies in developing therapies that safely enhance senescence in cancer, promoting tumor-suppressive over tumor-promoting SASP factors. Here, we identified the Retinoic-Acid-Receptor (RAR) agonist Adapalene as an effective pro-senescence compound in prostate cancer (PCa). The reactivation of the RARs triggers a strong senescence response and a tumor-suppressive SASP. In preclinical mouse models of PCa, the combination of Adapalene and Docetaxel, promotes a tumor-suppressive SASP that activates NK cell-mediated tumor clearance more effectively than either agent alone. This approach increases the efficacy of allogenic infusion of human NK cells in mice injected with human PCa cells, suggesting an alternative therapeutic strategy to stimulate the anti-tumor immune response in "immunologically cold" tumors.
Project description:Chemical cross-linking in combination with mass spectrometry (XL-MS) has emerged as a useful method for structural elucidation of proteins and protein complexes. Efficient enrichment procedures are necessary to analyze cross-linked products due to their relatively low abundance. Currently, strong cation exchange chromatography (SCX), size exclusion chromatography (SEC), and affinity tag-based enrichment are among the widely used enrichment strategies. Herein, we present a two-dimensional enrichment strategy combining basic RPLC (bRPLC) fractionation and tip-based SCX (SCX-Tip) enrichment, termed ReST method, for the characterization of cross-linked peptides. We revealed the unbiased separation effects of the bRPLC in the cross-linked peptide fractionation. We optimized the enrichment conditions of SCX-Tip for cross-linked peptides using well-designed cross-linked peptides. Taking advantage of the high resolution of bRPLC fractionation and the high enrichment efficiency of SCX-Tip, we were able to identify 43.6% more cross-links than the conventional SCX approach. The presented ReST approach is an effective fractionation method for XL-MS analysis, and could be beneficial for protoeme-scale protein-protein interaction studies. Moreover, more stringent data filtering was proposed in order to achieve the high confidence of cross-linked peptide identification.
Project description:Genome wide expression profiles of 10-day-old seedlings in response to prior exposure with OS followed by heat stress or cold stress as well simultaneous exposure to OS along with HS/CS was done to study the transcriptional changes in response to combination of stresses.
