Emerging principles of cytokine pharmacology and therapeutics

RA Saxton, CR Glassman, KC Garcia - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted signalling proteins that play essential roles in the initiation,
maintenance and resolution of immune responses. Although the unique ability of cytokines …

Strategies to therapeutically modulate cytokine action

WJ Leonard, JX Lin - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted or membrane-presented molecules that mediate broad cellular
functions, including development, differentiation, growth and survival. Accordingly, the …

Insights into cytokine–receptor interactions from cytokine engineering

JB Spangler, I Moraga, JL Mendoza… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Cytokines exert a vast array of immunoregulatory actions critical to human biology and
disease. However, the desired immunotherapeutic effects of native cytokines are often …

Engineering strategies for immunomodulatory cytokine therapies: challenges and clinical progress

IS Pires, PT Hammond, DJ Irvine - Advanced therapeutics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cytokines are immunoregulatory proteins involved in many pathological states with
promising potential as therapeutic agents. A diverse array of cytokines has been studied in …

Fine-tuning cytokine signals

JX Lin, WJ Leonard - Annual review of immunology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Cytokines are secreted or otherwise released polypeptide factors that exert autocrine and/or
paracrine actions, with most cytokines acting in the immune and/or hematopoietic system …

Small molecules to the rescue: Inhibition of cytokine signaling in immune-mediated diseases

M Gadina, N Gazaniga, L Vian, Y Furumoto - Journal of autoimmunity, 2017 - Elsevier
Cytokines are small, secreted proteins associated with the maintenance of immune
homeostasis but also implicated with the pathogenesis of several autoimmune and …

Signalling platforms that modulate the inflammatory response: new targets for drug development

CA McCulloch, GP Downey… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2006 - nature.com
Therapeutically controlling inflammation is essential for the clinical management of many
high-prevalence human diseases. Drugs that block the pro-inflammatory cytokines tumour …

Cytokines and cytokine receptors

JJ O'Shea, M Gadina, RM Siegel - Clinical immunology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cytokines are critical mediators of communication for the immune system, and they are
essential for host defense against pathogens. Cytokines can be secreted by immune cells …

Structural basis of IL-1 family cytokine signaling

JK Fields, S Günther, EJ Sundberg - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Interleukin-1 (IL-1) family cytokines are key signaling molecules in both the innate and
adaptive immune systems, mediating inflammation in response to a wide range of stimuli …

Cytokines: past, present, and future

JJ Oppenheim - International journal of hematology, 2001 - Springer
This review provides an historical account of the discovery and development of cytokines.
Cytokines are soluble extracellular proteins or glycoproteins that are crucial intercellular …