Journal
IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 134, Issue 3, Pages 246-256Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2011.03485.x
Keywords
chemokine receptors; chemokines; regulation; immunity and infection
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- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
- Royal Society (London, UK)
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E008100/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/E008100/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Co-ordinated movement and controlled positioning of leucocytes is key to the development, maintenance and proper functioning of the immune system. Chemokines and their receptors play an essential role in these events by mediating directed cell migration, often referred to as chemotaxis. The chemotactic property of these molecules is also thought to contribute to an array of pathologies where inappropriate recruitment of specific chemokine receptor-expressing leucocytes is observed, including cancer and inflammatory diseases. As a result, chemokine receptors have become major targets for therapeutic intervention, and during the past 15 years much research has been devoted to understanding the regulation of their biological activity. From these studies, processes which govern the availability of functional chemokine receptors at the cell surface have emerged as playing a central role. In this review, we summarize and discuss current knowledge on the molecular mechanisms contributing to the regulation of chemokine receptor surface expression, from gene transcription and protein degradation to post-translational modifications, multimerization, intracellular transport and cross-talk.
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