Formation of Tumor-associated Fibroblasts and Their Role in Tumorigenesis and Development / 中国生物化学与分子生物学报

Cancer-associated fibroblasts(CAFs) are important cellular components of the tumor microenvironment. They have a variety of cellular sources, including resident fibroblasts, bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and epithelial cells, which contribute to the development of tumors. CAFs play important roles in cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis,which can promote tumor proliferation and migration, promote tumor angiogenesis, regulate tumor immunity, and improve tumor drug resistance. Therefore, it is a promising development direction in tumor-targeted therapy. CAFs regulate the biological characteristics of tumor cells and other stromal cells through cell-to-cell contact, releases many regulatory factors and synthesizes and reshapes the extracellular matrix, and influences the occurrence and development of cancer in these ways. However, there are still many unresolved issues on the way in targeting CAFs for tumor therapy. For example, the origin and functional heterogeneity of CAFs still need to be further explored. This review mainly focuses on the summary of origin of CAFs, their roles in tumor development and the potential application in cancer targeted therapy, which will help to deepen the understanding of the roles of CAFs in cancer development and future cancer treatment.

The roles of NOD1 and NOD2 in tumorigenesis and development / 中国生化药物杂志

Theinnate immunity system of human body has more and more attention for its antibacterial, antiviral, maintainingimmunehemostasis and promoting tissue damage and repair and other physiological functions.As members of NOD-like receptors(NLRs), NOD1 and NOD2 receptors are identified as intracellular pattern recognition receptors(PRRs), can be identified with molecular damage endogenous(damage-associated molecular patterns, DAMPs)and exogenous injury-molecular pathogen associated molecular(pathogen-associated molecular patterns, PAMPs), and initiation of innate and specific immune response, maintain the steady balance of body.Recently, a bunch of evidence have demonstrated that the importance of NOD1 receptor and NOD2 receptor is not limited in field of anti-infection, and the insulin resistance, kidney and liver damage recovery, cardiovascular disease and tumorigenesis are also closely related with these two receptors.So the aim of this article is to interpret the NOD1 and NOD2 general structure and function, and summarize the link between these two PRRs and tumorigenesis and finally make a clue for cancer immunotherapy.