Larsen, Olav Velden, Wijnand J. C. van der Mavri, Maša Schuermans, Sara Rummel, Pia C. Karlshøj, Stefanie Gustavsson, Martin Proost, Paul Våbenø, Jon Rosenkilde, Mette Marie
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Extensive ligand-receptor promiscuity in the chemokine signaling system balances beneficial redundancy and specificity. However, this feature poses a major challenge to selectively modulate the system pharmacologically. Here, we identified a conserved cluster of three aromatic receptor residues that anchors the second extracellular loop (ECL2) to t...
Cela, Drinalda Knackstedt, Sebastian Lorenz Groves, Sarah Rice, Christopher M Kwon, Jamie Tae Wook Mordmüller, Benjamin Amulic, Borko
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Journal of leukocyte biology
Peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) is a key regulator of inflammation but its function in infections remains incompletely understood. We investigate PAD4 in the context of malaria and demonstrate a role in regulation of immune cell trafficking and chemokine production. PAD4 regulates liver immunopathology by promoting neutrophil trafficking in a P...
Medina-Gil, José María Pérez-García, Ana Saavedra-Santana, Pedro Díaz-Carrasco, Asunción Martínez-Quintana, Efrén Rodríguez-González, Fayna Ramírez, Cristina M. Riaño, Marta Garay-Sánchez, Paloma Tugores, Antonio
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Monocytes participate in the development of atherosclerosis through the action of cytokines and other inflammatory mediators. Among them, CCR2 and its ligands, CCL2 and CCL7 play an important role, so the main objective of this work was to determine whether genetic variants affecting their activity were associated with cardiovascular disease. A coh...
Roberts, Luke B. Berkachy, Rita Wane, Madina Patel, Dhiren F. Schnoeller, Corinna Lord, Graham M. Gounaris, Kleoniki Ryffel, Bernhard Quesniaux, Valerie Darby, Matthew
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Frontiers in Immunology
Acetylcholine (ACh) from neuronal and non-neuronal sources plays an important role in the regulation of immune responses and is associated with the development of several disease pathologies. We have previously demonstrated that group 2 innate lymphoid cell (ILC2)-derived ACh is required for optimal type 2 responses to parasitic infection and there...
Cheng, Yun-Hsin Ko, Ying-Chieh Ku, Hsiang-Ju Huang, Ching-Chun Yao, Yu-Ching Liao, Yi-Tzu Chen, Ying-Tsong Huang, Shiu-Feng Huang, Li-Rung
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Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
There are few well-characterized syngeneic murine models for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), which limits immunological studies and the development of immunotherapies for HCC. We previously established an oncogene-induced spontaneous HCC mouse model based on transposon-mediated oncogene (AKT and NRASV12) insertion into the genome of hepatocytes to ...
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Immune cell invasion after the transplantation of solid organs is directed by chemokines binding to glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), creating gradients that guide immune cell infiltration. Renal transplant is the preferred treatment for end stage renal failure, but organ supply is limited and allografts are often injured during transport, surgery or by c...
Shi, Jia Kanoya, Riku Tani, Yurina Ishikawa, Sodai Maeda, Rino Suzuki, Sana Kawanami, Fumiya Miyagawa, Naoko Takahashi, Katsuhiko Oku, Teruaki
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International journal of molecular sciences
We examined whether sulfated hyaluronan exerts inhibitory effects on enzymatic and biological actions of heparanase, a sole endo-beta-glucuronidase implicated in cancer malignancy and inflammation. Degradation of heparan sulfate by human and mouse heparanase was inhibited by sulfated hyaluronan. In particular, high-sulfated hyaluronan modified with...
Takata, So Takeda, Yoshito Hirata, Haruhiko Shirai, Yuya Morita, Takayoshi Futami, Yu Naito, Yujiro Masuhiro, Kentaro Shiroyama, Takayuki Miyake, Kotaro
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Journal of Thoracic Disease
Background There are no known biomarkers for monitoring disease activity in idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease (MCD) with pulmonary involvement. We investigated the utility of serum leucine-rich α2-glycoprotein levels, which reflects interleukin 6 independent inflammatory change, for monitoring disease activity in patients with idiopathic MC...
Lei, Zhiqiang Hu, Xiang Wu, Yaoqi Fu, Longsheng Lai, Songqing Lin, Jing Li, Xiaobing Lv, Yanni
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Frontiers in Physiology
Vascular endothelial cells, forming the inner wall of the blood vessels, participate in the body’s pathological and physiological processes of immunity, tumors, and infection. In response to an external stimulus or internal pathological changes, vascular endothelial cells can reshape their microenvironment, forming a “niche”. Current research on th...
Mi, Tao Jin, Liming Zhang, Zhaoxia Wang, Jinkui Li, Mujie Zhanghuang, Chenghao Tan, Xiaojun Wang, Zhang Tian, Xiaomao Xiang, Bin
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Frontiers in Oncology
Objective To investigate the role of chemokines in Wilms tumours, especially their chemotaxis to immune cells and the role of DNA methylation in regulating the expression level of chemokines. Methods RNAseqV2 gene expression and clinical data were downloaded from the TARGET database. DNA methylation data were downloaded from the GEO and cBioPortal ...