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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2014

Regulation of immune responses by the neonatal fc receptor and its therapeutic implications.

Timo Rath, Kristi Baker, Michal Pyzik, Richard S Blumberg

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34citing papers in PubMed
6.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

34 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Timo RathDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA ; Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Erlangen University Hospital, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nueremberg , Erlangen , Germany.
Kristi BakerDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA.
Michal PyzikDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA.
Richard S BlumbergDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA , USA ; Harvard Digestive Diseases Center , Boston, MA , USA.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

INTESTINAL TRANSCYTOSIS OF IGG IN ADULT LIFER01DK053056 · NIDDK · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI BLUMBERG, RICHARD S · 1997 to 2021
$10.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK053056
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As a single receptor, the neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn) is critically involved in regulating albumin and IgG serum concentrations by protecting these two ligands from degradation. In addition to these essential homeostatic functions, FcRn possesses important functions in regulating immune responses that are equally as critical and are increasingly coming to attention. During the first stages of life, FcRn mediates the passive transfer of IgG across the maternal placenta or neonatal intestinal walls of mammals, thereby conferring passive immunity to the offspring before and after birth. In fact, FcRn is one of the very few molecules that are known to move from luminal to serosal membranes of polarized cells that form epithelial barriers of the lung and intestines. Together with FcRn's recently explored critical role in eliciting MHC II presentation and MHC class I cross-presentation of IgG-complexed antigen, this renders FcRn capable of exerting broad and potent functions in regulating immune responses and immunosurveillance at mucosal sites. Further, it is now clear that FcRn dependent mucosal absorption of therapeutic molecules is a clinically feasible and potent novel route of non-invasive drug delivery, and the interaction between FcRn and IgG has also been utilized for the acquisition of humoral immunity at mucosal sites. In this review, we begin by briefly summarizing the basic knowledge on FcRn expression and IgG binding, then describe more recent discoveries pertaining to the mechanisms by which FcRn orchestrates IgG related mucosal immune responses and immunosurveillance at host-environment interfaces within the adult organism. Finally, we outline how the knowledge of actions of FcRn at mucosal boundaries can be capitalized for the development and engineering of powerful mucosal vaccination strategies and novel routes for the non-invasive delivery of Fc-based therapeutics.

Indexed as

albuminantigen presentationimmunoglobulin Gmucosal immunologyneonatal Fc receptor

Identifiers

PMID25601863
PMCPMC4283642
OpenAlexW2115887732

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