B-arrestin deletion abrogates the innate immune response in murine CVB3 myocarditis

D Galtes, H Jiang, E Lucero, H Rockman - Physiology, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
β-arrestins (βarrs), initially discovered as desensitizers of GPCR signaling, are now known
to function as intracellular scaffolds and signaling transducers mediating a wide array of …

β-arrestins Mediate Cardiac Infiltration of Cytotoxic CD8+ T Cells and Macrophages in Acute CVB3 Viral Myocarditis

EY Lucero Garcia Rojas, H Jiang, V D'Anniballe… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Introduction: In response to Coxsackievirus B3 (CVB3) infection, immune cells infiltrate the
heart affecting viral clearance, tissue damage, and cardiac remodeling. However, the …

β-arrestin2 in infiltrated macrophages inhibits excessive inflammation after myocardial infarction

K Watari, M Nakaya, M Nishida, KM Kim, H Kurose - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Beta-arrestins (β-arrestin1 and β-arrestin2) are known as cytosolic proteins that mediate
desensitization and internalization of activated G protein-coupled receptors. In addition to …

Canonical and noncanonical signaling roles of β-arrestins in inflammation and immunity

MM Ahmadzai, D Broadbent, C Occhiuto, C Yang… - Advances in …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract β-Arrestins are a highly conserved family of cytosolic adaptor proteins that
contribute to many immune functions by orchestrating the desensitization and internalization …

β-arrestin 2 mediates cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury via inhibiting GPCR-independent cell survival signalling

Y Wang, L Jin, Y Song, M Zhang, D Shan… - Cardiovascular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Aims Ischemic heart disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Although timely restoration of coronary blood flow (reperfusion) is the most effective …

β-Arrestins in the immune system

D Jiang, T Xie, J Liang, PW Noble - Progress in molecular biology and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract β-Arrestins regulate G protein-coupled receptors through receptor desensitization
while also acting as signaling scaffolds to facilitate numerous effector pathways. Recent …

[HTML][HTML] Nonhematopoietic β-Arrestin-1 inhibits inflammation in a murine model of polymicrobial sepsis

D Sharma, N Packiriswamy, A Malik, PC Lucas… - The American Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
β-Arrestin-1 (βArr1), a scaffolding protein critical in G-protein coupled receptor
desensitization has more recently been found to be important in the pathogenesis of various …

Physiologic and cardiac roles of β-arrestins

PA Patel, DG Tilley, HA Rockman - Journal of molecular and cellular …, 2009 - Elsevier
β-arrestin1 and β-arrestin2 were initially identified by sequence homology to visual arrestins
and by their ability to bind to and inactivate signaling of the beta-2-adrenergic receptor in a …

[HTML][HTML] Not all arrestins are created equal: therapeutic implications of the functional diversity of the β-arrestins in the heart

A Lymperopoulos, SL Wertz, CM Pollard… - World Journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The two ubiquitous, outside the retina, G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) adapter proteins,
β-arrestin-1 and-2 (also known as arrestin-2 and-3, respectively), have three major functions …

β-Arrestin2 Improves Post–Myocardial Infarction Heart Failure via Sarco(endo)plasmic Reticulum Ca2+-ATPase–Dependent Positive Inotropy in Cardiomyocytes

KA McCrink, J Maning, A Vu, M Jafferjee, C Marrero… - …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Heart failure is the leading cause of death in the Western world, and new and innovative
treatments are needed. The GPCR (G protein–coupled receptor) adapter proteins βarr (β …