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The effect of interleukin-8 truncations on its interactions with glycosaminoglycans.
Biopolymers - 1 Aug 2018
Nordsieck Karoline, Baumann Lars, Hintze Vera, Pisabarro M Teresa, Schnabelrauch Matthias, Beck-Sickinger Annette G, Samsonov Sergey A
Abstract excerpt
The chemokine interleukin-8 (IL-8, CXCL8) plays an important role in inflammatory processes and consecutive wound healing. It recruits primarily neutrophils to infection sites and stimulates their degranulation and phagocytosis in effector cells. IL-8 binds glycosaminoglycans (GAGs), a class of complex linear anionic polysaccharides often organized into diversely sulfated micro-domains, that enriches the protein...
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