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ArticlePloS one2024

The chemokine receptor CCR8 is not a high-affinity receptor for the human chemokine CCL18.

Khansa Hussain, Herman D Lim, Shankar Raj Devkota, Barbara K Kemp-Harper, J Robert Lane, Meritxell Canals, James E Pease, Martin J Stone

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Article in PloS one, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Design and application of CCR8 antagonists.Future medicinal chemistry · 2025
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8 authors.

Khansa HussainNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Herman D LimMonash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Shankar Raj DevkotaMonash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Barbara K Kemp-HarperMonash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
J Robert LaneDivision of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Meritxell CanalsDivision of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, School of Life Sciences, Queen's Medical Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
James E PeaseNational Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Martin J StoneMonash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6468-4427

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The primate-specific chemokine CCL18 is a potent chemoattractant for T cells and is expressed at elevated levels in several inflammatory diseases. However, the cognate receptor for CCL18 remains unconfirmed. Here, we describe attempts to validate a previous report that the chemokine receptor CCR8 is the human CCL18 receptor (Islam et al. J Exp Med. 2013, 210:1889-98). Two mouse pre-B cell lines (4DE4 and L1.2) exogenously expressing CCR8 exhibited robust migration in response to the known CCR8 ligand CCL1 but not to CCL18. Similarly, CCL1 but not CCL18 induced internalization of CCR8 on 4DE4 cells. CCR8 expressed on Chinese hamster ovarian (CHO) cells mediated robust G protein activation, inhibition of cAMP synthesis and β-arrestin2 recruitment in response to CCL1 but not CCL18. Several N- and C-terminal variants of CCL18 also failed to stimulate CCR8 activation. On the other hand, and as previously reported, CCL18 inhibited CCL11-stimulated migration of 4DE4 cells expressing the receptor CCR3. These data suggest that CCR8, at least in the absence of unidentified cofactors, does not function as a high affinity receptor for CCL18.

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Chemokines, CCCricetulusReceptors, CCR8AnimalsCell LineCell MovementCHO CellsCricetinaeCyclic AMPHumansMiceCCL18 protein, humanCCR8 protein, humanChemokines, CCCyclic AMPReceptors, CCR8

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PMID39259753
PMCPMC11389940

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