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ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
(Clarivate Analytics, 2019)
Volume 35 Issue 4, April 2025: 235-236
A GSDMD agonist boosts specific antitumor immunity
Yingying Zhang1 , Jiahuai Han1,2,3,*
1State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, ChinaThe beneficial role of gasdermin activation and pyroptosis induction in antitumor immunity has been implicated by several studies; however, the question of how to specifically and efficiently activate cancer cell death while minimizing toxicity to host cells remains unsolved. In a recent paper published in Cell, Wu and Lieberman groups identified a GSDMD agonist that can induce low-level pyroptosis in cancer cells but not in host cells, offering potential applications in cancer vaccine development and therapy in combination with checkpoint blockade.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41422-024-01051-x