More than suppression: glucocorticoid action on monocytes and macrophages

JM Ehrchen, J Roth, K Barczyk-Kahlert - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Uncontrolled inflammation is a leading cause of many clinically relevant diseases. Current
therapeutic strategies focus mainly on immunosuppression rather than on the mechanisms …

Glucocorticoids shape macrophage phenotype for tissue repair

T Desgeorges, G Caratti, R Mounier… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Inflammation is a complex process which is highly conserved among species. Inflammation
occurs in response to injury, infection, and cancer, as an allostatic mechanism to return the …

Fighting the fire: mechanisms of inflammatory gene regulation by the glucocorticoid receptor

L Escoter-Torres, G Caratti, A Mechtidou… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
For many decades, glucocorticoids have been widely used as the gold standard treatment
for inflammatory conditions. Unfortunately, their clinical use is limited by severe adverse …

Modulating glucocorticoid receptor actions in physiology and pathology: Insights from coregulators

L Fadel, M Dacic, V Fonda, BA Sokolsky… - Pharmacology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are a class of steroid hormones that regulate key physiological
processes such as metabolism, immune function, and stress responses. The effects of GCs …

A guide to changing paradigms of glucocorticoid receptor function—a model system for genome regulation and physiology

S Vettorazzi, D Nalbantoglu, JCM Gebhardt… - The FEBS …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The glucocorticoid receptor (GR) is a bona fide ligand‐regulated transcription factor. Cloned
in the 80s, the GR has become one of the best‐studied and clinically most relevant members …

Discovery of novel GR ligands toward druggable GR antagonist conformations identified by MD simulations and Markov state model analysis

X Hu, J Pang, J Zhang, C Shen, X Chai… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Binding of different ligands to glucocorticoid receptor (GR) may induce different
conformational changes and even trigger completely opposite biological functions. To …

The glucocorticoid receptor recruits the COMPASS complex to regulate inflammatory transcription at macrophage enhancers

F Greulich, M Wierer, A Mechtidou, O Gonzalez-Garcia… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Glucocorticoids (GCs) are effective anti-inflammatory drugs; yet, their mechanisms of action
are poorly understood. GCs bind to the glucocorticoid receptor (GR), a ligand-gated …

[HTML][HTML] Biased regulation of glucocorticoid receptors signaling

L Mao, W Wei, J Chen - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2023 - Elsevier
Glucocorticoids (GCs), steroid hormones that depend on glucocorticoid receptor (GR)
binding for their action, are essential for regulating numerous homeostatic functions in the …

Gene-specific actions of transcriptional coregulators facilitate physiological plasticity: evidence for a physiological coregulator code

MR Stallcup, C Poulard - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2020 - cell.com
The actions of transcriptional coregulators are highly gene-specific, that is, each coregulator
is required only for a subset of the genes regulated by a specific transcription factor. These …

PPARγ cistrome repression during activation of lung monocyte-macrophages in severe COVID-19

C Desterke, AG Turhan, A Bennaceur-Griscelli… - Iscience, 2020 - cell.com
The molecular mechanisms of cytokine storm in patients with severe COVID-19 infections
are poorly understood. To uncover these events, we performed transcriptome analyses of …