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SUBMITTER: Bertini R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC511013 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bertini Riccardo R Allegretti Marcello M Bizzarri Cinzia C Moriconi Alessio A Locati Massimo M Zampella Giuseppe G Cervellera Maria N MN Di Cioccio Vito V Cesta Maria C MC Galliera Emanuela E Martinez Fernando O FO Di Bitondo Rosa R Troiani Giulia G Sabbatini Vilma V D'Anniballe Gaetano G Anacardio Roberto R Cutrin Juan C JC Cavalieri Barbara B Mainiero Fabrizio F Strippoli Raffaele R Villa Pia P Di Girolamo Maria M Martin Franck F Gentile Marco M Santoni Angela A Corda Daniela D Poli Giuseppe G Mantovani Alberto A Ghezzi Pietro P Colotta Francesco F
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040728 32
The chemokine CXC ligand 8 (CXCL8)/IL-8 and related agonists recruit and activate polymorphonuclear cells by binding the CXC chemokine receptor 1 (CXCR1) and CXCR2. Here we characterize the unique mode of action of a small-molecule inhibitor (Repertaxin) of CXCR1 and CXCR2. Structural and biochemical data are consistent with a noncompetitive allosteric mode of interaction between CXCR1 and Repertaxin, which, by locking CXCR1 in an inactive conformation, prevents signaling. Repertaxin is an effec ...[more]