Cytokine-targeted therapeutics for KSHV-associated disease

N Alomari, J Totonchy - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) also known as human herpesvirus 8
(HHV-8), is linked to several human malignancies including Kaposi sarcoma (KS), primary …

Deriving immune modulating drugs from viruses—a new class of biologics

JR Yaron, L Zhang, Q Guo, M Burgin… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Viruses are widely used as a platform for the production of therapeutics. Vaccines containing
live, dead and components of viruses, gene therapy vectors and oncolytic viruses are key …

Chemical mutagenesis of a GPCR ligand: Detoxifying “inflammo-attraction” to direct therapeutic stem cell migration

JP Lee, R Zhang, M Yan, S Duggineni… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
A transplanted stem cell's engagement with a pathologic niche is the first step in its restoring
homeostasis to that site. Inflammatory chemokines are constitutively produced in such a …

[HTML][HTML] Current and novel radiopharmaceuticals for imaging cardiovascular inflammation

GS Heo, D Sultan, Y Liu - The quarterly journal of nuclear medicine …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death worldwide despite
advances in diagnostic technologies and treatment strategies. The underlying cause of most …

[HTML][HTML] Identification of a novel signaling complex containing host chemokine receptor CXCR4, Interleukin-10 receptor, and human cytomegalovirus US27

CC Tu, CM O'Connor, JV Spencer - Virology, 2020 - Elsevier
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a widespread herpesvirus that establishes latency in
myeloid cells and persists by manipulating immune signaling. Chemokine receptor CXCR4 …

Cells of the Innate and Adaptive Immune Systems in Kaposi's Sarcoma

O Ngalamika, S Munsaka - Journal of immunology research, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is an angioproliferative malignancy whose associated etiologic agent
is the Kaposi's sarcoma‐associated herpesvirus (KSHV). KS is the most prevalent …

Chemokine receptors (version 2020.5) in the IUPHAR/bps guide to pharmacology database

F Bachelerie, A Ben-Baruch, AM Burkhardt… - IUPHAR/BPS Guide …, 2020 - journals.ed.ac.uk
Chemokine receptors (nomenclature as agreed by the NC-IUPHAR Subcommittee on
Chemokine Receptors [431, 430, 32]) comprise a large subfamily of 7TM proteins that bind …

[HTML][HTML] Chemokine Receptor Inhibitor vMIP-II Promoting Lymphocytes in COVID-19 Patients and Its Related Mechanism In Vitro

S Li, Y Wang, L Feng, Z Jiang, F Cong, Y Chen, Z Dai… - 2020 - europepmc.org
Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) accompanies severe immune injury as well as a
decrease and overactivation of T lymphocytes. We observed that vMIP-II, a broad-spectrum …

CXCR4-binding PET tracers link monocyte recruitment and endothelial injury in murine atherosclerosis

O Baba, A Elvington, M Szpakowska, D Sultan, GS Heo… - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Viral macrophage inflammatory protein 2 (vMIP-II/vCCL2) binds to multiple chemokine
receptors, and vMIP-II based PET tracer (64Cu-DOTA-vMIP-II: vMIP-II tracer) accumulates at …

Cytokine

U Gompels, D Dewin, J Catusse - US Patent 10,730,914, 2020 - Google Patents
Abstract A novel cytokine, U83A, is described, as are variant forms of the cytokine, having a
wide range of agonistic and antagonistic activity against chemokine receptors. Uses of the …