ArticleScientific reports2018
Lysines and Arginines play non-redundant roles in mediating chemokine-glycosaminoglycan interactions.
Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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.
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.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Structural Basis of Chemokine CXCL8 Monomer and Dimer Binding to Chondroitin Sulfate: Insights into Specificity and Plasticity.Biomolecules · 2026Article
- Multilevel Screening Platform Utilizing Cellular and Zebrafish Models to Identify Short Peptides with High Improvement of Motor Neuron Growth.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Immunogenicity of a CXCL8-based biopharmaceutical drug candidate in comparison to its wildtype form.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Unveiling Charge-Pair Salt-Bridge Interaction Between GAGs and Collagen Protein in Cartilage: Atomic Evidence from DNP-Enhanced ssNMR at Natural Isotopic Abundance.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2024Article
- Unveiling cytokine charge disparity as a potential mechanism for immune regulation.Cytokine & growth factor reviews · 2024Review
- Prodrug-conjugated tumor-seeking commensals for targeted cancer therapy.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Heparin Oligosaccharides as Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide Inhibitors via their Binding Process Characterization.Current protein & peptide science · 2024Article
- Transition Networks Unveil Disorder-to-Order Transformations in AInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Designing Smaller, Synthetic, Functional Mimetics of Sulfated Glycosaminoglycans as Allosteric Modulators of Coagulation Factors.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2023Review
- A universal stress protein upregulated by hypoxia has a role in Burkholderia cenocepacia intramacrophage survival: Implications for chronic infection in cystic fibrosis.MicrobiologyOpen · 2023Article
- Molecular Dynamics-Based Comparative Analysis of Chondroitin and Dermatan Sulfates.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- NMR Methods for Characterization of Glycosaminoglycan-Chemokine Interactions.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Article
- Atomic-Resolution Experimental Structural Biology and Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hyaluronan and Its Complexes.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Regulation and functional roles of chemokines in liver diseases.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2021Review
- Mechanistic Insights into the Structural Stability of Collagen-Containing Biomaterials Such as Bones and Cartilage.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2021Article
- Structural Insights Into How Proteoglycans Determine Chemokine-CXCR1/CXCR2 Interactions: Progress and Challenges.Frontiers in immunology · 2020Review
- Structural basis of chemokine interactions with heparan sulfate, chondroitin sulfate, and dermatan sulfate.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2019Article
- Identification of Specific Lysines and Arginines That Mediate Angiomotin Membrane Association.ACS omega · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) bind a large array of proteins and mediate fundamental and diverse roles in human physiology. Ion pair interactions between protein lysines/arginines and GAG sulfates/carboxylates mediate binding. Neutrophil-activating chemokines (NAC) are GAG-binding proteins, and their sequences reveal high selectivity for lysines over arginines indicating they are functionally not equivalent. NAC binding to GAGs impacts gradient formation, receptor functions, and endothelial activation, which together regulate different components of neutrophil migration. We characterized the consequence of mutating lysine to arginine in NAC CXCL8, a well-characterized GAG-binding protein. We chose three lysines - two highly conserved lysines (K20 and K64) and a CXCL8-specific lysine (K67). Interestingly, the double K64R/K20R and K64R/K67R mutants are highly impaired in recruiting neutrophils in a mouse model. Further, both the mutants bind GAG heparin with higher affinity but show similar receptor activity. NMR and MD studies indicate that the structures are essentially identical to the WT, but the mutations alter the network of intramolecular ion pair interactions. These observations collectively indicate that the reduced in vivo recruitment is due to altered GAG interactions, higher GAG binding affinity can be detrimental, and specificity of lysines fine-tunes in vivo GAG interactions and function.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.