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ReviewCells2021

Post-Translational Modification of HMGB1 Disulfide Bonds in Stimulating and Inhibiting Inflammation.

Ulf Andersson, Kevin J Tracey, Huan Yang

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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50citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ulf AnderssonDepartment of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institute, Karolinska University Hospital, 17176 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0003-0316-3860
Kevin J TraceyInstitute for Bioelectronic Medicine, The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA.
Huan YangInstitute for Bioelectronic Medicine, The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, 350 Community Drive, Manhasset, NY 11030, USA.
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research · USKarolinska University Hospital · SE

Funding

Molecular Basis of Bioelectronic MedicineR35GM118182 · NIGMS · FEINSTEIN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH · PI TRACEY, KEVIN J · 2016 to 2025
$7.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM118182The Freemason Lodge Barnhuset in Stockholm 1:73
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1), a highly conserved nuclear DNA-binding protein, is a "damage-associated molecular pattern" molecule (DAMP) implicated in both stimulating and inhibiting innate immunity. As reviewed here, HMGB1 is an oxidation-reduction sensitive DAMP bearing three cysteines, and the post-translational modification of these residues establishes its proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory activities by binding to different extracellular cell surface receptors. The redox-sensitive signaling mechanisms of HMGB1 also occupy an important niche in innate immunity because HMGB1 may carry other DAMPs and pathogen-associated molecular pattern molecules (PAMPs). HMGB1 with DAMP/PAMP cofactors bind to the receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) which internalizes the HMGB1 complexes by endocytosis for incorporation in lysosomal compartments. Intra-lysosomal HMGB1 disrupts lysosomal membranes thereby releasing the HMGB1-transported molecules to stimulate cytosolic sensors that mediate inflammation. This HMGB1-DAMP/PAMP cofactor pathway slowed the development of HMGB1-binding antagonists for diagnostic or therapeutic use. However, recent discoveries that HMGB1 released from neurons mediates inflammation via the TLR4 receptor system, and that cancer cells express fully oxidized HMGB1 as an immunosuppressive mechanism, offer new paths to targeting HMGB1 for inflammation, pain, and cancer.

Indexed as

Protein Processing, Post-TranslationalAnimalsCOVID-19DisulfidesHMGB1 ProteinHumansInflammationSensory Receptor CellsDisulfidesHMGB1 ProteincancerCOVID-19DAMPHMGB1inflammationnociceptorRAGESIRT1TLR4α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Identifiers

PMID34943830
PMCPMC8699546
OpenAlexW3214783737

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