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ArticleNature medicine2018

A human anti-IL-2 antibody that potentiates regulatory T cells by a structure-based mechanism.

Eleonora Trotta, Paul H Bessette, Stephanie L Silveria, Lauren K Ely, Kevin M Jude, Duy T Le, Charles R Holst, Anthony Coyle, Marc Potempa, Lewis L Lanier and 4 more

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Article in Nature medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 131 papers.

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131citing papers in PubMed
8.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

131 citing papers in PubMed, 195 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 7 institutions in 1 country.

Eleonora TrottaUCSF Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Paul H BessetteCenters for Therapeutic Innovation, Pfizer Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
Stephanie L SilveriaUCSF Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Lauren K ElyCenters for Therapeutic Innovation, Pfizer Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
Kevin M JudeDepartments of Molecular & Cellular Physiology and Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3675-5136
Duy T LeDepartment of Pediatric Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA.
Charles R HolstBioElectron Technology Corporation, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Anthony CoylePandion Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Marc PotempaDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Lewis L LanierDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1308-3952
K Christopher GarciaDepartments of Molecular & Cellular Physiology and Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Natasha K CrellinCenters for Therapeutic Innovation, Pfizer Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
Isaac J RondonCenters for Therapeutic Innovation, Pfizer Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
Jeffrey A BluestoneUCSF Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Jeff.Bluestone@ucsf.edu.
Pfizer (United States) · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USBioElectronics (United States) · USHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USParker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy · USStanford University · USUniversity of Houston · US

Funding

NK MemoryR01AI068129 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI LANIER, LEWIS LEE · 2006 to 2020
$6.0M
Structure, function and engineering of immune cytokine receptor signalingR37AI051321 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GARCIA, KENAN CHRISTOPHER · 2013 to 2022
$4.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI068129NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI051321
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Interleukin-2 (IL-2) has been shown to suppress immune pathologies by preferentially expanding regulatory T cells (T

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AnimalsAntibodiesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCell ProliferationDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, ExperimentalGraft vs Host DiseaseHumansImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsImmunotherapyInterleukin-2KineticsMice, Inbred C57BLModels, MolecularMuromegalovirusPhosphorylationAntibodiesImmunoglobulin Fab FragmentsInterleukin-2STAT5 Transcription Factor

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PMID29942088
PMCPMC6398608
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