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 …

Protein assembly by design

J Zhu, N Avakyan, A Kakkis, AM Hoffnagle… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Proteins are nature's primary building blocks for the construction of sophisticated molecular
machines and dynamic materials, ranging from protein complexes such as photosystem II …

Structure of a Janus kinase cytokine receptor complex reveals the basis for dimeric activation

CR Glassman, N Tsutsumi, RA Saxton, PJ Lupardus… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Cytokines signal through cell surface receptor dimers to initiate activation of intracellular
Janus kinases (JAKs). We report the 3.6-angstrom–resolution cryo–electron microscopy …

Recent advances in de novo protein design: Principles, methods, and applications

X Pan, T Kortemme - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2021 - jbc.org
The computational de novo protein design is increasingly applied to address a number of
key challenges in biomedicine and biological engineering. Successes in expanding …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering interferons and interleukins for cancer immunotherapy

PG Holder, SA Lim, CS Huang, P Sharma… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokines are a class of potent immunoregulatory proteins that are secreted in response to
various stimuli and act locally to regulate many aspects of human physiology and disease …

The JAK-STAT pathway: from structural biology to cytokine engineering

Y Lv, J Qi, JJ Babon, L Cao, G Fan, J Lang… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The Janus kinase-signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway
serves as a paradigm for signal transduction from the extracellular environment to the …

Designed proteins assemble antibodies into modular nanocages

R Divine, HV Dang, G Ueda, JA Fallas, I Vulovic… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Antibodies that bind tightly to targets of interest play central roles in
biological research and medicine. Clusters of antibodies, typically generated by fusing …

LAG3 ectodomain structure reveals functional interfaces for ligand and antibody recognition

Q Ming, DP Celias, C Wu, AR Cole, S Singh… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The immune checkpoint receptor lymphocyte activation gene 3 protein (LAG3) inhibits T cell
function upon binding to major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC class II) or …

Protein design via deep learning

W Ding, K Nakai, H Gong - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Proteins with desired functions and properties are important in fields like nanotechnology
and biomedicine. De novo protein design enables the production of previously unseen …

Mechanism of homodimeric cytokine receptor activation and dysregulation by oncogenic mutations

S Wilmes, M Hafer, J Vuorio, JA Tucker, H Winkelmann… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Homodimeric class I cytokine receptors are assumed to exist as preformed dimers that are
activated by ligand-induced conformational changes. We quantified the dimerization of three …