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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2020

Structural Insights Into How Proteoglycans Determine Chemokine-CXCR1/CXCR2 Interactions: Progress and Challenges.

Krishna Rajarathnam, Umesh R Desai

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
30citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Virulence · 2025
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  10. Heparan-6-Cancers · 2023
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  12. Heterodimers Are an Integral Component of Chemokine Signaling Repertoire.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  16. 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

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Krishna RajarathnamDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States.
Umesh R DesaiDepartment of Medicinal Chemistry, Institute for Structural Biology, Drug Discovery and Development, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States.
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston · USVirginia Commonwealth University · US

Funding

Therapeutic assessment of synthetic heparin sulfates in transplantation modelsP01HL107152 · NHLBI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI DESAI, UMESH RAMANLAL · 2011 to 2017
$15.8M
Tool for Predicting Glycosaminoglycan Recognition of ProteinsU01CA241951 · NCI · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI DESAI, UMESH RAMANLAL · 2019 to 2021
$991k
Engineered chemokines as therapeutics for bacterial infectionsR21AI135606 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI CHOPRA, ASHOK K, RAJARATHNAM, KRISHNA · 2018 to 2019
$499k
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA241951NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL107152NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI135606
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proteoglycans (PGs), present in diverse environments, such as the cell membrane surface, extracellular milieu, and intracellular granules, are fundamental to life. Sulfated glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are covalently attached to the core protein of proteoglycans. PGs are complex structures, and are diverse in terms of amino acid sequence, size, shape, and in the nature and number of attached GAG chains, and this diversity is further compounded by the phenomenal diversity in GAG structures. Chemokines play vital roles in human pathophysiology, from combating infection and cancer to leukocyte trafficking, immune surveillance, and neurobiology. Chemokines mediate their function by activating receptors that belong to the GPCR class, and receptor interactions are regulated by how, when, and where chemokines bind GAGs. GAGs fine-tune chemokine function by regulating monomer/dimer levels and chemotactic/haptotactic gradients, which are also coupled to how they are presented to their receptors. Despite their small size and similar structures, chemokines show a range of GAG-binding geometries, affinities, and specificities, indicating that chemokines have evolved to exploit the repertoire of chemical and structural features of GAGs. In this review, we summarize the current status of research on how GAG interactions regulate ELR-chemokine activation of CXCR1 and CXCR2 receptors, and discuss knowledge gaps that must be overcome to establish causal relationships governing the impact of GAG interactions on chemokine function in human health and disease.

Indexed as

Models, MolecularAnimalsCell MovementHumansImmunity, CellularImmunologic SurveillanceProtein BindingProteoglycansReceptors, Interleukin-8AReceptors, Interleukin-8BSignal TransductionStructure-Activity RelationshipProteoglycansReceptors, Interleukin-8AReceptors, Interleukin-8Bchemokinechondroitin sulfateglycosaminoglycanheparan sulfateheparinnuclear magnetic resonanceproteoglycanstructure

Identifiers

PMID32391006
PMCPMC7193095
OpenAlexW3017730150

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