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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications2007

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray diffraction of human interleukin-7 bound to unglycosylated and glycosylated forms of its alpha-receptor.

Joseph Wickham, Scott T R Walsh

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology and crystallization communications, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Soluble IL7Rα potentiates IL-7 bioactivity and promotes autoimmunity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013
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  3. Structural reorganization of the interleukin-7 signaling complex.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2012
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Joseph WickhamDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Comprehensive Cancer Center, Ohio State University, 467 Hamilton Hall, 1645 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Scott T R Walsh
The Ohio State University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interleukin-7 (IL-7) signaling pathway plays an essential role in the development, proliferation and homeostasis of T and B cells in cell-mediated immunity. Understimulation and overstimulation of the IL-7 signaling pathway leads to severe combined immunodeficiency, autoimmune reactions, heart disease and cancers. Stimulation of the IL-7 pathway begins with IL-7 binding to its alpha-receptor, IL-7R alpha. Protein crystals of unglycosylated and glycosylated complexes of human IL-7-IL-7R alpha extracellular domain (ECD) obtained using a surface entropy-reduction approach diffract to 2.7 and 3.0 A, respectively. Anomalous dispersion methods will be used to solve the unglycosylated IL-7-IL-7R alpha ECD complex structure and this unglycosylated structure will then serve as a model in molecular-replacement attempts to solve the structure of the glycosylated IL-7-alpha-receptor complex.

Indexed as

CrystallizationGlycosylationHumansInterleukin-7Protein BindingReceptors, Interleukin-7X-Ray DiffractionInterleukin-7interleukin-7 receptor, alpha chainReceptors, Interleukin-7

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PMID17909291
PMCPMC2339731
OpenAlexW2080968691

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