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 …

Decoding type I and III interferon signalling during viral infection

EV Mesev, RA LeDesma, A Ploss - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Interferon (IFN)-mediated antiviral responses are central to host defence against viral
infection. Despite the existence of at least 20 IFNs, there are only three known cell surface …

STING: a master regulator in the cancer-immunity cycle

Y Zhu, X An, X Zhang, Y Qiao, T Zheng, X Li - Molecular cancer, 2019 - Springer
The aberrant appearance of DNA in the cytoplasm triggers the activation of cGAS-cGAMP-
STING signaling and induces the production of type I interferons, which play critical roles in …

Life-threatening viral disease in a novel form of autosomal recessive IFNAR2 deficiency in the Arctic

CJA Duncan, MK Skouboe, S Howarth… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Type I interferons (IFN-I) play a critical role in human antiviral immunity, as demonstrated by
the exceptionally rare deleterious variants of IFNAR1 or IFNAR2. We investigated five …

Type I interferons in autoimmune disease

MK Crow, M Olferiev, KA Kirou - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Type I interferons, which make up the first cytokine family to be described and are the
essential mediators of antivirus host defense, have emerged as central elements in the …

Interferons and viruses: an evolutionary arms race of molecular interactions

HH Hoffmann, WM Schneider, CM Rice - Trends in immunology, 2015 - cell.com
Over half a century has passed since interferons (IFNs) were discovered and shown to
inhibit virus infection in cultured cells. Since then, researchers have steadily brought to light …

The role of type I interferons in the pathogenesis and treatment of COVID-19

G Schreiber - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Type I interferons (IFN-I) were first discovered over 60 years ago in a classical experiment by
Isaacs and Lindenman, who showed that IFN-Is possess antiviral activity. Later, it became …

Inherited IFNAR1 deficiency in otherwise healthy patients with adverse reaction to measles and yellow fever live vaccines

N Hernandez, G Bucciol, L Moens, J Le Pen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2019 - rupress.org
Vaccination against measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) and yellow fever (YF) with live
attenuated viruses can rarely cause life-threatening disease. Severe illness by MMR …

The molecular basis for differential type I interferon signaling

G Schreiber - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2017 - jbc.org
Type I interferons (IFN-1) are cytokines that affect the expression of thousands of genes,
resulting in profound cellular changes. IFN-1 activates the cell by dimerizing its two-receptor …

Insights into cytokine–receptor interactions from cytokine engineering

JB Spangler, I Moraga, JL Mendoza… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Cytokines exert a vast array of immunoregulatory actions critical to human biology and
disease. However, the desired immunotherapeutic effects of native cytokines are often …