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ArticleeLife2024

A kinase to cytokine explorer to identify molecular regulators and potential therapeutic opportunities.

Marina Chan, Yuqi Kang, Shannon Osborne, Michael Zager, Taranjit S Gujral

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 22% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Marina Chan *Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, United States.
Yuqi Kang *Human Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, United States.
Shannon Osborne *Data Visualization Core, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, United States.
Michael ZagerData Visualization Core, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-8685
Taranjit S GujralHuman Biology Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4453-3031
Cape Town HVTN Immunology Laboratory / Hutchinson Centre Research Institute of South Africa · ZA

Funding

National Science Foundation 2047289
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cytokines and chemokines are secreted proteins that regulate various biological processes, such as inflammation, immune response, and cell differentiation. Therefore, disruption of signaling pathways involving these proteins has been linked to a range of diseases, including cancer. However, targeting individual cytokines, chemokines, or their receptors is challenging due to their regulatory redundancy and incomplete understanding of their signaling networks. To transform these difficult-to-drug targets into a pharmacologically manageable class, we developed a web-based platform called KinCytE. This platform was designed to link the effects of kinase inhibitors, a well-established class of drugs, with cytokine and chemokine release and signaling networks. The resulting KinCytE platform enables users to investigate protein kinases that regulate specific cytokines or chemokines, generate a ranked list of FDA-approved kinase inhibitors that affect cytokine/chemokine activity, and explore and visualize cytokine signaling network thus facilitating drugging this challenging target class. KinCytE is freely accessible via https://atlas.fredhutch.org/kincyte.

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ChemokinesCytokinesHumansInflammationSignal TransductionChemokinesCytokineschemokinecomputational biologycytokinehumanimmunologyinflammationkinasemacrophagessignalingsystems biology

Identifiers

PMID38305363
PMCPMC10945549
OpenAlexW4387969467

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