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ArticleClinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology2019

Rational targeting Cdc42 restrains Th2 cell differentiation and prevents allergic airway inflammation.

Jun-Qi Yang, Khalid W Kalim, Yuan Li, Xin Duan, Phuong Nguyen, Gurjit K Khurana Hershey, John Kroner, Brandy Ruff, Li Zhang, Nathan Salomonis and 4 more

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Article in Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24 citing papers in PubMed, 29 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 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jun-Qi YangDivision of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Khalid W KalimDivision of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Yuan LiDivision of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Xin DuanDivision of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Phuong NguyenDivision of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Gurjit K Khurana HersheyDivision of Asthma Research, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.ORCID 0000-0001-6663-977X
John KronerDivision of Asthma Research, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Brandy RuffDivision of Asthma Research, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Li ZhangDepartment of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Nathan SalomonisDivision of Biomedical Informatics, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mark RochmanDivision of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ting WenDivision of Allergy and Immunology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Yi ZhengDivision of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Fukun GuoDivision of Experimental Hematology and Cancer Biology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.ORCID 0000-0002-8820-7633
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · USJiangnan University · CNUniversity of Cincinnati · US

Funding

Novel Signaling Function of Cdc42 GTPase in vivoR01GM108661 · NIGMS · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI GUO, FUKUN · 2014 to 2017
$1.1M
RhoA in T Cell-mediated Airway InflammationR56HL141499 · NHLBI · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI GUO, FUKUN · 2018 to 2018
$398k
Novel therapeutics of targeting mTOR pathway in T-cell leukemiaR21CA198358 · NCI · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI GUO, FUKUN · 2015 to 2016
$373k
NCI NIH HHS R21 CA198358NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL141499NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM108661
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAsthma is an allergic airway inflammation-driven disease that affects more than 300 million people world-wide. Targeted therapies for asthma are largely lacking. Although asthma symptoms can be prevented from worsening, asthma development cannot be prevented. Cdc42 GTPase has been shown to regulate actin cytoskeleton, cell proliferation and survival.

objectivesTo investigate the role and targeting of Cdc42 in Th2 cell differentiation and Th2-mediated allergic airway inflammation.

methodsPost-thymic Cdc42-deficient mice were generated by crossing Cdc42

resultsPost-thymic deletion of Cdc42 led to reduced peripheral CD8 CONCLUSION AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Cdc42 is required for Th2 cell differentiation and allergic airway inflammation, and rational targeting Cdc42 may serve as a preventive but not therapeutic approach for asthma control.

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Asthmacdc42 GTP-Binding ProteinCell DifferentiationAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesGene DeletionMiceMice, TransgenicTh2 Cellscdc42 GTP-Binding ProteinCdc42 protein, mouseanimal modelsasthmaCASINCdc42T cellsTh2 differentiation

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PMID30307073
PMCPMC6310654
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