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Kazim M, Yoo E. Recent Advances in the Development of Non-Invasive Imaging Probes for Cancer Immunotherapy. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202310694. [PMID: 37843426 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202310694] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 10/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/17/2023]
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The last two decades have witnessed a major revolution in the field of tumor immunology including clinical progress using various immunotherapy strategies. These advances have highlighted the potential for approaches that harness the power of the immune system to fight against cancer. While cancer immunotherapies have shown significant clinical successes, patient responses vary widely due to the complex and heterogeneous nature of tumors and immune responses, calling for reliable biomarkers and therapeutic strategies to maximize the benefits of immunotherapy. Especially, stratifying responding individuals from non-responders during the early stages of treatment could help avoid long-term damage and tailor personalized treatments. In efforts to develop non-invasive means for accurately evaluating and predicting tumor response to immunotherapy, multiple affinity-based agents targeting immune cell markers and checkpoint molecules have been developed and advanced to clinical trials. In addition, researchers have recently turned their attention to substrate and activity-based imaging probes that can provide real-time, functional assessment of immune response to treatment. Here, we highlight some of those recently designed probes that image functional proteases as biomarkers of cancer immunotherapy with a focus on their chemical design and detection modalities and discuss challenges and opportunities for the development of imaging tools utilized in cancer immunotherapy.
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- Muhammad Kazim
- Chemical Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Chemical Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
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Papathoti NK, Mendam K, Sriram Kanduri BH, Thepbandit W, Sangpueak R, Saengchan C, Hoang NH, Megavath VS, Kurakula M, Le Thanh T, Buensanteai N. Investigation of bioactive compounds from Bacillus sp. against protein homologs CDC42 of Colletotrichum gloeosporioides causing anthracnose disease in cassava by using molecular docking and dynamics studies. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:1010603. [PMID: 36213126 PMCID: PMC9537347 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.1010603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Manihot esculenta, commonly called cassava, is an economically valuable crop and important staple food, grown in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Demand for cassava in the food and fuel industry is growing worldwide. However, anthracnose disease caused by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides severely affects cassava yield and production. The bioactive molecules from Bacillus are widely used to control fungal diseases in several plants. Therefore, in this study, bioactive compounds (erucamide, behenic acid, palmitic acid, phenylacetic acid, and β-sitosterol) from Bacillus megaterium were assessed against CDC42, a key protein for virulence, from C. gloeosporioides. Structure of the CDC42 protein was generated through the comparative homology modeling method. The binding site of the ligands and the stability of the complex were analyzed through docking and molecular dynamics simulation studies, respectively. Furthermore, a protein interaction network was envisaged through the STRING database, followed by enrichment analysis in the WebGestalt tool. From the enrichment analysis, it is apparent that bioactive from B. megaterium chiefly targets the MAP kinase pathway that is essential for filamentous growth and virulence. Further exploration through experimental studies could be advantageous for cassava improvement as well as to combat against C. gloeosporioides pathogen.
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- Narendra Kumar Papathoti
- School of Crop Production Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- Department of Zoology, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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- School of Crop Production Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- School of Crop Production Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- School of Crop Production Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- School of Crop Production Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
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- Department of Biotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda, Telangana, India
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- Department of Biotechnology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda, Telangana, India
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- Department of Plant Protection, Can Tho University, Can Tho City, Viet Nam
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- School of Crop Production Technology, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand
- *Correspondence: Natthiya Buensanteai,
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Electrostatics in Computational Biophysics and Its Implications for Disease Effects. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231810347. [PMID: 36142260 PMCID: PMC9499338 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231810347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2022] [Revised: 08/31/2022] [Accepted: 09/02/2022] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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This review outlines the role of electrostatics in computational molecular biophysics and its implication in altering wild-type characteristics of biological macromolecules, and thus the contribution of electrostatics to disease mechanisms. The work is not intended to review existing computational approaches or to propose further developments. Instead, it summarizes the outcomes of relevant studies and provides a generalized classification of major mechanisms that involve electrostatic effects in both wild-type and mutant biological macromolecules. It emphasizes the complex role of electrostatics in molecular biophysics, such that the long range of electrostatic interactions causes them to dominate all other forces at distances larger than several Angstroms, while at the same time, the alteration of short-range wild-type electrostatic pairwise interactions can have pronounced effects as well. Because of this dual nature of electrostatic interactions, being dominant at long-range and being very specific at short-range, their implications for wild-type structure and function are quite pronounced. Therefore, any disruption of the complex electrostatic network of interactions may abolish wild-type functionality and could be the dominant factor contributing to pathogenicity. However, we also outline that due to the plasticity of biological macromolecules, the effect of amino acid mutation may be reduced, and thus a charge deletion or insertion may not necessarily be deleterious.
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