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ReviewCellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS2021

The marriage of chemokines and galectins as functional heterodimers.

Philipp von Hundelshausen, Kanin Wichapong, Hans-Joachim Gabius, Kevin H Mayo

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Review in Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Heterodimers Are an Integral Component of Chemokine Signaling Repertoire.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  7. A brief history of galectin evolution.Frontiers in immunology · 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

4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Philipp von Hundelshausen *Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention (IPEK), Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 80336, Munich, Germany. phundels@med.lmu.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7474-9370
Kanin WichapongDepartment of Biochemistry, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht University, 6229ER, Maastricht, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9678-7084
Hans-Joachim Gabius *Institute of Physiological Chemistry, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Kevin H Mayo *Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA. mayox001@umn.edu.
German Centre for Cardiovascular Research · DELudwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEMaastricht University · NLUniversity of Minnesota · US

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft SFB1123, A2National Science Foundation BIR-961477
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trafficking of leukocytes and their local activity profile are of pivotal importance for many (patho)physiological processes. Fittingly, microenvironments are complex by nature, with multiple mediators originating from diverse cell types and playing roles in an intimately regulated manner. To dissect aspects of this complexity, effectors are initially identified and structurally characterized, thus prompting familial classification and establishing foci of research activity. In this regard, chemokines present themselves as role models to illustrate the diversification and fine-tuning of inflammatory processes. This in turn discloses the interplay among chemokines, their cell receptors and cognate glycosaminoglycans, as well as their capacity to engage in new molecular interactions that form hetero-oligomers between themselves and other classes of effector molecules. The growing realization of versatility of adhesion/growth-regulatory galectins that bind to glycans and proteins and their presence at sites of inflammation led to testing the hypothesis that chemokines and galectins can interact with each other by protein-protein interactions. In this review, we present some background on chemokines and galectins, as well as experimental validation of this chemokine-galectin heterodimer concept exemplified with CXCL12 and galectin-3 as proof-of-principle, as well as sketch out some emerging perspectives in this arena.

Indexed as

AnimalsChemokinesGalectinsHumansInflammationChemokinesGalectinsCytokinesGlycoproteinInflammationLectinLeukocytes

Identifiers

PMID34767039
PMCPMC8629806
OpenAlexW3212830624

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Registered trials

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