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 …

Conformational basis of G protein-coupled receptor signaling versatility

LM Wingler, RJ Lefkowitz - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are privileged structural scaffolds in biology that have
the versatility to regulate diverse physiological processes. Interestingly, many GPCR ligands …

A molecular cell atlas of the human lung from single-cell RNA sequencing

KJ Travaglini, AN Nabhan, L Penland, R Sinha… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Although single-cell RNA sequencing studies have begun to provide compendia of cell
expression profiles,,,,,,,–, it has been difficult to systematically identify and localize all …

Structure of a Janus kinase cytokine receptor complex reveals the basis for dimeric activation

CR Glassman, N Tsutsumi, RA Saxton, PJ Lupardus… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Cytokines signal through cell surface receptor dimers to initiate activation of intracellular
Janus kinases (JAKs). We report the 3.6-angstrom–resolution cryo–electron microscopy …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering interferons and interleukins for cancer immunotherapy

PG Holder, SA Lim, CS Huang, P Sharma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are a class of potent immunoregulatory proteins that are secreted in response to
various stimuli and act locally to regulate many aspects of human physiology and disease …

Avoiding false positive conclusions in molecular simulation: the importance of replicas

B Knapp, L Ospina, CM Deane - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Molecular simulations are a computational technique used to investigate the dynamics of
proteins and other molecules. The free energy landscape of these simulations is often …

IL-2 is inactivated by the acidic pH environment of tumors enabling engineering of a pH-selective mutein

S Gaggero, J Martinez-Fabregas, A Cozzani… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Cytokines interact with their receptors in the extracellular space to control immune
responses. How the physicochemical properties of the extracellular space influence cytokine …

[HTML][HTML] JAK inhibitors and COVID-19

G Levy, P Guglielmelli, P Langmuir… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract During SARS-CoV-2 infection, the innate immune response can be inhibited or
delayed, and the subsequent persistent viral replication can induce emergency signals that …

Hoxb5 marks long-term haematopoietic stem cells and reveals a homogenous perivascular niche

JY Chen, M Miyanishi, SK Wang, S Yamazaki, R Sinha… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are arguably the most extensively characterized tissue
stem cells. Since the identification of HSCs by prospective isolation, complex multi …

The JAK-STAT pathway: from structural biology to cytokine engineering

Y Lv, J Qi, JJ Babon, L Cao, G Fan, J Lang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway
serves as a paradigm for signal transduction from the extracellular environment to the …