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ArticleJournal of pharmaceutical analysis2025

From foe to friend: Rewiring oncogenic pathways through artificial selenoprotein to combat immune-resistant tumor.

Weiming You, Zhengjun Zhou, Zhanfeng Li, Jin Yan, Yang Wang

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Article in Journal of pharmaceutical analysis, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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17 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Weiming YouDepartment of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710004, China.
Zhengjun ZhouDepartment of General Surgery, Digestive Disease Hospital, Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical University, Zunyi, Guizhou, 563000, China.
Zhanfeng LiDepartment of Medical Oncology and Department of Talent Highland, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China.
Jin YanDepartment of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710004, China.
Yang WangDepartment of Infectious Diseases, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710004, China.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Reprogramming oncogenic signaling pathways to generate anti-tumor effects is a promising strategy for targeted cancer intervention, without significant off-target effects. Although reprogramming multi-oncoprotein interactions in a single signaling pathway axis has been shown to achieve sustained efficacy, there are several challenges that limit its clinical application. Herein, we transformed the mouse double minute 2 homolog (MDM2)-heat shock cognate protein 70 (HSC70) axis, a tumor-promoting pathway, into an activator of anti-tumor immunity using the Path-editor, an artificial selenoprotein. Once it enters the cell, Path-editor decomposes into PMI and PPI peptides: PMI inhibits MDM2-mediated p53 degradation and promotes HSC70 expression, while PPI binds to HSC70, enabling its ability to selectively degrade the programmed cell death ligand 1 (PD-L1). As a proof of concept, we tested its performance in microsatellite-stable (MSS) colorectal cancer, which typically displays limited responsiveness to immunotherapy. The results indicated that Path-editor effectively attenuated PD-L1 expression and reversed immune evasion in both CT26 allografts and humanized patient-derived tumor xenograft (PDX) models, thereby inhibiting tumor progression with high biosafety. Therefore, this paper introduces Path-editor as a paradigm for reprogramming oncogenic multi-protein pathways, utilizing selenium-assisted approach to achieve the rapid design of tumor-specific pathway editors. This strategy is expected to reverse immune escape in MSS colorectal cancer and treat difficult malignancies.

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Anti-tumor immunityArtificial microproteinCancer therapyPro-oncogenic pathwaysReprogramming

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PMID41487147
PMCPMC12756544

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