A guide to chemokines and their receptors

CE Hughes, RJB Nibbs - The FEBS journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The chemokines (or chemotactic cytokines) are a large family of small, secreted proteins that
signal through cell surface G protein‐coupled heptahelical chemokine receptors. They are …

CXCR4 signaling in health and disease

T Pozzobon, G Goldoni, A Viola, B Molon - Immunology letters, 2016 - Elsevier
Chemokines and chemokine receptors regulate multiple processes such morphogenesis,
angiogenesis and immune responses. Among the chemokine receptors, CXCR4 stands out …

Neoadjuvant PD-1 blockade induces T cell and cDC1 activation but fails to overcome the immunosuppressive tumor associated macrophages in recurrent …

AH Lee, L Sun, AY Mochizuki, JG Reynoso… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Primary brain tumors, such as glioblastoma (GBM), are remarkably resistant to
immunotherapy, even though pre-clinical models suggest effectiveness. To understand this …

Quantifying exosome secretion from single cells reveals a modulatory role for GPCR signaling

FJ Verweij, MP Bebelman, CR Jimenez… - Journal of Cell …, 2018 - rupress.org
Exosomes are small endosome-derived extracellular vesicles implicated in cell–cell
communication and are secreted by living cells when multivesicular bodies (MVBs) fuse with …

Non-redundant requirement for CXCR3 signalling during tumoricidal T-cell trafficking across tumour vascular checkpoints

ME Mikucki, DT Fisher, J Matsuzaki, JJ Skitzki… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
T-cell trafficking at vascular sites has emerged as a key step in antitumour immunity.
Chemokines are credited with guiding the multistep recruitment of CD8+ T cells across …

Single-cell transcriptome profiling of an adult human cell atlas of 15 major organs

S He, LH Wang, Y Liu, YQ Li, HT Chen, JH Xu, W Peng… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Background As core units of organ tissues, cells of various types play their harmonious
rhythms to maintain the homeostasis of the human body. It is essential to identify the …

Myocardial infarction triggers cardioprotective antigen-specific T helper cell responses

M Rieckmann, M Delgobo, C Gaal… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Am Soc Clin Investig
T cell autoreactivity is a hallmark of autoimmune diseases but can also benefit self-
maintenance and foster tissue repair. Here, we investigated whether heart-specific T cells …

CXCR7 heterodimerizes with CXCR4 and regulates CXCL12-mediated G protein signaling

A Levoye, K Balabanian, F Baleux… - Blood, The Journal …, 2009 - ashpublications.org
The stromal cell-derived factor-1/CXCL12 chemokine engages the CXCR4 and CXCR7
receptors and regulates homeostatic and pathologic processes, including organogenesis …

Chemokines in homeostasis and diseases

K Chen, Z Bao, P Tang, W Gong, T Yoshimura… - Cellular & molecular …, 2018 - nature.com
For the past twenty years, chemokines have emerged as a family of critical mediators of cell
migration during immune surveillance, development, inflammation and cancer progression …

LFA-1 in T cell priming, differentiation, and effector functions

A Gérard, AP Cope, C Kemper, R Alon, R Köchl - Trends in immunology, 2021 - cell.com
The integrin LFA-1 is crucial for T cell entry into mammalian lymph nodes and tissues, and
for promoting interactions with antigen-presenting cells (APCs). However, it is increasingly …