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ReviewViruses2021

JAK-STAT Pathway: A Novel Target to Tackle Viral Infections.

Ifeanyi Jude Ezeonwumelu, Edurne Garcia-Vidal, Ester Ballana

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Review in Viruses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 70 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

70 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ifeanyi Jude EzeonwumeluAIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa and Health Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08916 Badalona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4007-2212
Edurne Garcia-VidalAIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa and Health Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08916 Badalona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0698-8710
Ester BallanaAIDS Research Institute-IrsiCaixa and Health Research Institute Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP), Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08916 Badalona, Spain.

Funding

CaixaBank LCF/BQ/IN18/11660017Government of Catalonia SLT017/20/000090Instituto de Salud Carlos III CPII19/00012Instituto de Salud Carlos III PI17/00624 and PI19/00194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modulation of the antiviral innate immune response has been proposed as a putative cellular target for the development of novel pan-viral therapeutic strategies. The Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway is especially relevant due to its essential role in the regulation of local and systemic inflammation in response to viral infections, being, therefore, a putative therapeutic target. Here, we review the extraordinary diversity of strategies that viruses have evolved to interfere with JAK-STAT signaling, stressing the relevance of this pathway as a putative antiviral target. Moreover, due to the recent remarkable progress on the development of novel JAK inhibitors (JAKi), the current knowledge on its efficacy against distinct viral infections is also discussed. JAKi have a proven efficacy against a broad spectrum of disorders and exhibit safety profiles comparable to biologics, therefore representing good candidates for drug repurposing strategies, including viral infections.

Indexed as

Antiviral AgentsHumansImmunity, InnateInflammationJanus Kinase InhibitorsJanus KinasesSignal TransductionSTAT Transcription FactorsVirus DiseasesVirusesAntiviral AgentsJanus Kinase InhibitorsJanus KinasesSTAT Transcription FactorsantiviralCOVID-19inflammationinnate immunityJAK-STATtherapeutic strategiestreatment

Identifiers

PMID34960648
PMCPMC8704679

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