Regulation of Cytokine Signaling in Immunity
A special issue of Cells (ISSN 2073-4409). This special issue belongs to the section "Cellular Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2020) | Viewed by 94202
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cytokines are a family of small proteins that regulate a plethora of biological functions, in particular in the innate and adaptive immune system. In the immune system, cytokines induce proliferation and differentiation of leukocytes, but are also crucial for the activation and inactivation of inflammatory cells. Furthermore, cytokines can have dual functions by additionally regulating tissue homeostasis and regeneration. Overwhelming activity of cytokines or loss-of-function is involved in several pathologies including sepsis, chronic inflammation, cancer and immunodeficiency. Therefore, cytokine signalling has to be tightly regulated and can occur at multiple levels, including proteolytic control of cytokine release and receptor shedding, generation of cytokine binding proteins and intracellular negative feedback signalling. Cytokine-targeting therapies hold great promise for the treatment of inflammatory disease and cancer.
This special issue aims to gather expert articles on different aspects of how to regulate cytokine signalling in immunity. I therefore invite you to submit original research articles or reviews.
Dr. Dirk Schmidt-Arras
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cytokine
- chemokine
- signaling
- immunity
- inflammation
- cancer
- microbiome
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