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ReviewMolecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.)2012

Different partners, opposite outcomes: a new perspective of the immunobiology of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase.

Ciriana Orabona, Maria Teresa Pallotta, Ursula Grohmann

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Review in Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.), 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ciriana OrabonaDepartment of Experimental Medicine and Biochemical Sciences, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy. ciry72@hotmail.com
Maria Teresa Pallotta
Ursula Grohmann
University of Perugia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO), a metabolic enzyme that catalyzes tryptophan conversion into kynurenines, is a crucial regulator of immunity. Altered IDO activity is often associated with pathology, including neoplasia and autoimmunity. IDO is highly expressed in dendritic cells (DCs) that exploit the enzyme's activity and the production of tryptophan catabolites to regulate immune responses by acting on several cell types, including T lymphocytes, of which they promote a regulatory phenotype. IDO also contains immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motifs (ITIMs) that, once bound by distinct molecular partners, will either promote degradation or initiate signaling activity and self-maintenance of the enzyme. We here discuss how ITIM-dependent molecular events can affect the functional plasticity of IDO by modifying the protein half-life and its enzymic and nonenzymic functions.

Indexed as

Amino Acid MotifsAnimalsDendritic CellsEvolution, MolecularGene Expression RegulationHumansI-kappa B KinaseIndoleamine-Pyrrole 2,3,-DioxygenaseInterleukin-1 Receptor-Associated KinasesInterleukin-6NF-kappa BProtein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fynReceptors, ImmunologicSignal TransductionI-kappa B KinaseIndoleamine-Pyrrole 2,3,-DioxygenaseInterleukin-1 Receptor-Associated KinasesInterleukin-6NF-kappa BProtein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fynReceptors, ImmunologicTransforming Growth Factor beta

Identifiers

PMID22481272
PMCPMC3409287
OpenAlexW18268914

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