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ArticleAngewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)2018

Nanosecond Dynamics Regulate the MIF-Induced Activity of CD74.

Georgios Pantouris, Junming Ho, Dilip Shah, Mansoor Ali Syed, Lin Leng, Vineet Bhandari, Richard Bucala, Victor S Batista, J Patrick Loria, Elias J Lolis

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Article in Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Georgios PantourisDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
Junming HoDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
Dilip ShahSection of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Mansoor Ali SyedDepartment of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
Lin LengDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
Vineet BhandariSection of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Richard BucalaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.
Victor S BatistaDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
J Patrick LoriaDepartment of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520, USA.
Elias J LolisDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7902-7868
Yale University · USYale Cancer Center · USDrexel University · USUNSW Sydney · AU

Funding

Computational and Biochemical Studies of Temperature Effects on Allostery in the Imidazole Glycerol Phosphate Synthase (IGPS) from T. maritimaR01GM106121 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BATISTA, VICTOR S, LORIA, JOSEPH P · 2014 to 2021
$2.3M
Regulation of CXCR4 by cognate and non-cognate ligandsR01AI082295 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LOLIS, ELIAS · 2009 to 2013
$2.0M
Functional and Structural Studies of CD74 ActivationR01AI065029 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LOLIS, ELIAS · 2006 to 2010
$2.0M
Upgrade of a home source macromolecular X-ray diffraction system.S10OD018007 · OD · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BOGGON, TITUS JONATHON · 2014 to 2014
$460k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI065029NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI082295NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM106121NIH HHS S10 OD018007
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) activates CD74, which leads to severe disorders including inflammation, autoimmune diseases and cancer under pathological conditions. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations up to one microsecond revealed dynamical correlation between a residue located at the opening of one end of the MIF solvent channel, previously thought to be a consequence of homotrimerization, and residues in a distal region responsible for CD74 activation. Experiments verified the allosteric regulatory site and identified a pathway to this site via the MIF β-strands. The reported findings provide fundamental insights on a dynamic mechanism that controls the MIF-induced activation of CD74.

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Allosteric SiteAntigens, Differentiation, B-LymphocyteHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIHumansInflammationIntramolecular OxidoreductasesMacrophage Migration-Inhibitory FactorsMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein Conformation, beta-StrandAntigens, Differentiation, B-LymphocyteHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIIntramolecular Oxidoreductasesinvariant chainMacrophage Migration-Inhibitory FactorsMIF protein, humanallosteric siteslong-range communicationMIFprotein dynamics

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PMID29669180
PMCPMC6282165
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