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ReviewThe journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society2018

Glycosaminoglycan Interactions Fine-Tune Chemokine-Mediated Neutrophil Trafficking: Structural Insights and Molecular Mechanisms.

Krishna Rajarathnam, Krishna Mohan Sepuru, Prem Raj B Joseph, Kirti V Sawant, Aaron J Brown

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Review in The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry : official journal of the Histochemistry Society, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% 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

15 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycans in Immunity.Proteoglycan research · 2026
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  5. NMR Methods for Characterization of Glycosaminoglycan-Chemokine Interactions.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Krishna RajarathnamDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Krishna Mohan SepuruDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Prem Raj B JosephDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Kirti V SawantDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
Aaron J BrownDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · US

Funding

Therapeutic assessment of synthetic heparin sulfates in transplantation modelsP01HL107152 · NHLBI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI DESAI, UMESH RAMANLAL · 2011 to 2017
$15.8M
HOUSTON AREA MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008280 · NIGMS · RICE UNIVERSITY · PI WENSEL, THEODORE G · 1988 to 2023
$8.0M
Chemokine Synergy and Neutrophil FunctionR21AI124681 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI RAJARATHNAM, KRISHNA · 2016 to 2017
$426k
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL107152NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI124681NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008280
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Circulating neutrophils, rapidly recruited in response to microbial infection, form the first line in host defense. Humans express ~50 chemokines, of which a subset of seven chemokines, characterized by the conserved "Glu-Leu-Arg" motif, mediate neutrophil recruitment. Neutrophil-activating chemokines (NACs) share similar structures, exist as monomers and dimers, activate the CXCR2 receptor on neutrophils, and interact with tissue glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). Considering cellular assays have shown that NACs have similar CXCR2 activity, the question has been and remains, why do humans express so many NACs? In this review, we make the case that NACs are not redundant and that distinct GAG interactions determine chemokine-specific in vivo functions. Structural studies have shown that the GAG-binding interactions of NACs are distinctly different, and that conserved and specific residues in the context of structure determine geometries that could not have been predicted from sequences alone. Animal studies indicate recruitment profiles of monomers and dimers are distinctly different, monomer-dimer equilibrium regulates recruitment, and that recruitment profiles vary between chemokines and between tissues, providing evidence that GAG interactions orchestrate neutrophil recruitment. We propose in vivo GAG interactions impact several chemokine properties including gradients and lifetime, and that these interactions fine-tune and define the functional response of each chemokine that can vary between different cell and tissue types for successful resolution of inflammation.

Indexed as

Immunity, InnateNeutrophil InfiltrationAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCell MovementChemokinesGlycosaminoglycansHumansInflammationModels, MolecularNeutrophilsSequence AlignmentChemokinesGlycosaminoglycansextracellular matrixgradientsheparan sulfateinflammationinnate immunityleukocyte trafficking

Identifiers

PMID29290145
PMCPMC5958375
OpenAlexW2782511946

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Registered trials

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