COVID-19: Pathogenesis, cytokine storm and therapeutic potential of interferons

SH Nile, A Nile, J Qiu, L Li, X Jia, G Kai - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
… Treatment of these patients with oral ribavirin and subcutaneous pegylated IFN alpha-2a
demonstrated significant improvement in survival, provided that adequate monitoring and …

Recent and future perspectives on engineering interferons and other cytokines as therapeutics

T Aung, WS Grubbe, RJ Nusbaum… - Trends in biochemical …, 2023 - cell.com
cytokines are involved in a broad range of biological processes and are implicated in various
disease pathologies. The field of cytokine therapeutics … methods to develop cytokine-based …

Interferons α and β in cancer: therapeutic opportunities from new insights

EC Borden - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2019 - nature.com
Interferons may be the most potent and broadly active cytokine family for stimulating cellular
responses to nucleic acids of anomalous structure or location. In response to pathogenic …

Engineering cytokine therapeutics

J Deckers, T Anbergen, AM Hokke, A de Dreu… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
… a better understanding of cytokine biology. We then present an overview of therapeutics
arising from cytokine re-engineering, targeting and delivery, mRNA therapeutics and cell therapy…

IFN λ is a potent anti‐influenza therapeutic without the inflammatory side effects of IFN α treatment

S Davidson, TM McCabe, S Crotta, HH Gad… - EMBO molecular …, 2016 - embopress.org
… λ) are potent antiviral cytokines with immunomodulatory potential, we assessed their … Both
interferon alpha (IFNα) and lambda (IFNλ) protect from influenza virus infection when mice are …

Interferon beta: from molecular level to therapeutic effects

MH Abdolvahab, MRK Mofrad, H Schellekens - International review of cell …, 2016 - Elsevier
Interferon beta (IFNβ) is a cytokine that is naturally produced … It signals by binding to the
heterodimeric type I IFN receptor … of action to its therapeutic effects. Immunogenicity and its …

Immunoengineering approaches for cytokine therapy

A Mansurov, A Lauterbach, E Budina… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
… promising proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory therapeutic cytokines, both used in cancer
therapeutic index. We also mention ongoing clinical trials that utilize engineered cytokines

Next-generation cytokines for cancer immunotherapy

D Xue, E Hsu, YX Fu, H Peng - Antibody therapeutics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… anti-CD38 IgG4 mAb with two attenuated IFN alpha-2b molecules. Ongoing phase I/II TAK-…
an increased type I IFN gene signature and circulating IFN-associated cytokine levels. This …

Interferon γ and its important roles in promoting and inhibiting spontaneous and therapeutic cancer immunity

E Alspach, DM Lussier… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2019 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
… The IFN-γ receptor (IFNGR) is a member of the class II cytokine receptor family and is expressed
at moderate levels on nearly every cell type, except mature erythrocytes. The receptor is …

Strategies to therapeutically modulate cytokine action

WJ Leonard, JX Lin - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
cytokines and their pathways can be controlled for potential therapeutic benefit, including by
cytokine … I and type II cytokines and particularly on IL-2, given the therapeutic interest in this …