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ReviewAnnual review of biophysics2017

What Do Structures Tell Us About Chemokine Receptor Function and Antagonism?

Irina Kufareva, Martin Gustavsson, Yi Zheng, Bryan S Stephens, Tracy M Handel

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In one paragraph

Review in Annual review of biophysics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
55citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Neutrophil-derived cathelicidin promotes cerebral angiogenesis after ischemic stroke.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2023
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  17. Heterodimers Are an Integral Component of Chemokine Signaling Repertoire.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Irina KufarevaSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; email: ikufareva@ucsd.edu , thandel@ucsd.edu.
Martin GustavssonSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; email: ikufareva@ucsd.edu , thandel@ucsd.edu.
Yi ZhengSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; email: ikufareva@ucsd.edu , thandel@ucsd.edu.
Bryan S StephensSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; email: ikufareva@ucsd.edu , thandel@ucsd.edu.
Tracy M HandelSkaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093; email: ikufareva@ucsd.edu , thandel@ucsd.edu.
University of California, San Diego · USUniversity of Montana · US

Funding

Macromolecular DockingR01GM071872 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ABAGYAN, RUBEN · 2004 to 2017
$4.2M
The structural plasticity of chemokine and gp120 recognition by CCR5R01AI118985 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HANDEL, TRACY M, KUFAREVA, IRINA · 2015 to 2019
$2.7M
Chemokine interaction with CXCR4 and ACKR3: structure and activation mechanismsR01GM117424 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HANDEL, TRACY M, KUFAREVA, IRINA · 2016 to 2019
$2.2M
Dissecting the interactions of gp120 with chemokine receptor CXCR4R21AI121918 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HANDEL, TRACY M · 2016 to 2017
$426k
Structure Determination of the Chemokine Receptor CCR2 with Novel InhibitorsR21AI122211 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI HANDEL, TRACY M · 2016 to 2017
$426k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI118985NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI121918NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI122211NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM071872NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117424
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemokines and their cell surface G protein-coupled receptors are critical for cell migration, not only in many fundamental biological processes but also in inflammatory diseases and cancer. Recent X-ray structures of two chemokines complexed with full-length receptors provided unprecedented insight into the atomic details of chemokine recognition and receptor activation, and computational modeling informed by new experiments leverages these insights to gain understanding of many more receptor:chemokine pairs. In parallel, chemokine receptor structures with small molecules reveal the complicated and diverse structural foundations of small molecule antagonism and allostery, highlight the inherent physicochemical challenges of receptor:chemokine interfaces, and suggest novel epitopes that can be exploited to overcome these challenges. The structures and models promote unique understanding of chemokine receptor biology, including the interpretation of two decades of experimental studies, and will undoubtedly assist future drug discovery endeavors.

Indexed as

Allosteric RegulationAnimalsChemokinesCrystallography, X-RayDrug DiscoveryHumansModels, MolecularReceptors, ChemokineChemokinesReceptors, ChemokineallosterycrystallographydruggabilityG protein–coupled receptormolecular modelingreceptor activation

Identifiers

PMID28532213
PMCPMC5764094
OpenAlexW2551571126

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