[HTML][HTML] Structural understanding of interleukin 6 family cytokine signaling and targeted therapies: focus on interleukin 11

RD Metcalfe, TL Putoczki, MDW Griffin - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cytokines are small signaling proteins that have central roles in inflammation and cell
survival. In the half-century since the discovery of the first cytokines, the interferons, over fifty …

[HTML][HTML] Autotaxin in pathophysiology and pulmonary fibrosis

I Ninou, C Magkrioti, V Aidinis - Frontiers in medicine, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Lysophospholipid signaling is emerging as a druggable regulator of pathophysiological
responses, and especially fibrosis, exemplified by the relative ongoing clinical trials in …

[HTML][HTML] The expression regulation and biological function of autotaxin

X Zhang, M Li, N Yin, J Zhang - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Autotaxin (ATX) is a secreted glycoprotein and functions as a key enzyme to produce
extracellular lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). LPA interacts with at least six G protein-coupled …

[HTML][HTML] Commonalities between ARDS, pulmonary fibrosis and COVID-19: the potential of autotaxin as a therapeutic target

K Ntatsoulis, T Karampitsakos, E Tsitoura… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Severe COVID-19 is characterized by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)-like
hyperinflammation and endothelial dysfunction, that can lead to respiratory and multi organ …

[HTML][HTML] Lysophosphatidic acid signaling in obesity and insulin resistance

K D'Souza, GV Paramel, PC Kienesberger - Nutrients, 2018 - mdpi.com
Although simple in structure, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a potent bioactive lipid that
profoundly influences cellular signaling and function upon binding to G protein-coupled …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting lysophosphatidic acid in cancer: the issues in moving from bench to bedside

Y Xu - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since the clear demonstration of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA)'s pathological roles in cancer
in the mid-1990s, more than 1000 papers relating LPA to various types of cancer were …

[HTML][HTML] Coming of age for autotaxin and lysophosphatidate signaling: Clinical applications for preventing, detecting and targeting tumor-promoting inflammation

MGK Benesch, ITK MacIntyre, TPW McMullen… - Cancers, 2018 - mdpi.com
A quarter-century after the discovery of autotaxin in cell culture, the autotaxin-
lysophosphatidate (LPA)-lipid phosphate phosphatase axis is now a promising clinical …

[HTML][HTML] Autotaxin-LPA signaling contributes to obesity-induced insulin resistance in muscle and impairs mitochondrial metabolism

K D'Souza, C Nzirorera, AM Cowie, GP Varghese… - Journal of lipid …, 2018 - ASBMB
Autotaxin (ATX) is an adipokine that generates the bioactive lipid, lysophosphatidic acid
(LPA). ATX-LPA signaling has been implicated in diet-induced obesity and systemic insulin …

[HTML][HTML] Increased autotaxin levels in severe COVID-19, correlating with IL-6 levels, endothelial dysfunction biomarkers, and impaired functions of dendritic cells

I Nikitopoulou, D Fanidis, K Ntatsoulis… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Autotaxin (ATX; ENPP2) is a secreted lysophospholipase D catalyzing the extracellular
production of lysophosphatidic acid (LPA), a pleiotropic signaling phospholipid. Genetic and …

Development and therapeutic potential of autotaxin small molecule inhibitors: From bench to advanced clinical trials

AN Matralis, A Afantitis, V Aidinis - Medicinal research reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Several years after its isolation from melanoma cells, an increasing body of experimental
evidence has established the involvement of Autotaxin (ATX) in the pathogenesis of several …