Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18649144›Full record

ReviewImmunologic research2008

The evolving role of semaphorins and plexins in the immune system: Plexin-A1 regulation of dendritic cell function.

Brian P O'Connor, Jenny P-Y Ting

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Review in Immunologic research, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 29% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Semaphorins: their dual role in regulating immune-mediated diseases.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brian P O'ConnorDepartment of Microbiology, Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill CB7295, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
Jenny P-Y Ting
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Funding

Plexin-A1: Regulation by CIITA and Immunologic FunctionR37AI029564 · NIAID · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI TING, JENNY P · 2008 to 2017
$3.8M
NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI029564
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Semaphorin and plexin proteins were originally identified for their important axon guidance regulation. In recent years, their role within the immune system has been discovered. Semaphorins are considered the ligands to the plexin receptors, and together, they mediate cell-cell communication. Initially, through gene knock-out and knock-down studies, simple ligand-receptor pairings that regulate specific cellular interactions were discovered, such as between T cells and dendritic cells. However, more recent data indicate that individual cell types express multiple semaphorin and plexin proteins, engendering complex interactions involving multiple ligand-receptor pairs and multiple cell types. In this review, we describe contributions from our lab elucidating Plexin-A1 regulation of the immune system and our more recent findings of Semaphorin 6D regulation of T-cell immunity.

Indexed as

AnimalsDendritic CellsLymphocyte ActivationNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsNuclear ProteinsReceptors, Cell SurfaceSemaphorinsT-LymphocytesTrans-ActivatorsMHC class II transactivator proteinNerve Tissue ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPlxna1 protein, mouseReceptors, Cell SurfaceSemaphorinsTrans-Activators

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PMID18649144
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