Emerging principles of cytokine pharmacology and therapeutics

RA Saxton, CR Glassman, KC Garcia - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Cytokines are secreted signalling proteins that play essential roles in the initiation,
maintenance and resolution of immune responses. Although the unique ability of cytokines …

Designing Multivalent and Multispecific Biologics

JJ Kang, A Ohoka, CA Sarkar - Annual Review of Chemical and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
In the era of precision medicine, multivalent and multispecific therapeutics present a
promising approach for targeted disease intervention. These therapeutics are designed to …

Design of cell-type-specific hyperstable IL-4 mimetics via modular de novo scaffolds

H Yang, UY Ulge, A Quijano-Rubio… - Nature chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The interleukin-4 (IL-4) cytokine plays a critical role in modulating immune
homeostasis. Although there is great interest in harnessing this cytokine as a therapeutic in …

Structural insights into the assembly of gp130 family cytokine signaling complexes

Y Zhou, PE Stevis, J Cao, K Saotome, J Wu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The interleukin-6 (IL-6) family cytokines signal through gp130 receptor homodimerization or
heterodimerization with a second signaling receptor and play crucial roles in various cellular …

The impact of AI‐based modeling on the accuracy of protein assembly prediction: Insights from CASP15

B Ozden, A Kryshtafovych… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In CASP15, 87 predictors submitted around 11 000 models on 41 assembly targets. The
community demonstrated exceptional performance in overall fold and interface contact …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of FGF pathway signaling and vascular differentiation using designed oligomeric assemblies

NI Edman, A Phal, RL Redler, T Schlichthaerle… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Many growth factors and cytokines signal by binding to the extracellular domains of their
receptors and driving association and transphosphorylation of the receptor intracellular …

Molecular and cellular factors determining the functional pleiotropy of cytokines

A McFarlane, E Pohler, I Moraga - The FEBS Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cytokines are soluble factors vital for mammalian physiology. Cytokines elicit highly
pleiotropic activities, characterized by their ability to induce a wide spectrum of functional …

Modulation of human thrombopoietin receptor conformations uncouples JAK2 V617F-driven activation from cytokine-induced stimulation

N Papadopoulos, A Pristavec, A Nédélec, G Levy… - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
The thrombopoietin receptor (TpoR) plays a central role in myeloproliferative neoplasms
(MPNs). Mutations in JAK2, calreticulin, or TpoR itself drive the constitutive activation of …

[HTML][HTML] Stepwise design of pseudosymmetric protein hetero-oligomers

RD Kibler, S Lee, MA Kennedy, BIM Wicky, SM Lai… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pseudosymmetric hetero-oligomers with three or more unique subunits with overall
structural (but not sequence) symmetry play key roles in biology, and systematic approaches …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical design of pseudosymmetric protein nanoparticles

QM Dowling, YJ Park, N Gerstenmaier, EC Yang… - Research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Discrete protein assemblies ranging from hundreds of kilodaltons to hundreds of
megadaltons in size are a ubiquitous feature of biological systems and perform highly …