The arginine methyltransferase PRMT7 promotes extravasation of monocytes resulting in tissue injury in COPD

oleh: Gizem Günes Günsel, Thomas M. Conlon, Aicha Jeridi, Rinho Kim, Zeynep Ertüz, Niklas J. Lang, Meshal Ansari, Mariia Novikova, Dongsheng Jiang, Maximilian Strunz, Mariia Gaianova, Christine Hollauer, Christina Gabriel, Ilias Angelidis, Sebastian Doll, Jeanine C. Pestoni, Stephanie L. Edelmann, Marlene Sophia Kohlhepp, Adrien Guillot, Kevin Bassler, Hannelore P. Van Eeckhoutte, Özgecan Kayalar, Nur Konyalilar, Tamara Kanashova, Sophie Rodius, Carolina Ballester-López, Carlos M. Genes Robles, Natalia Smirnova, Markus Rehberg, Charu Agarwal, Ioanna Krikki, Benoit Piavaux, Stijn E. Verleden, Bart Vanaudenaerde, Melanie Königshoff, Gunnar Dittmar, Ken R. Bracke, Joachim L. Schultze, Henrik Watz, Oliver Eickelberg, Tobias Stoeger, Gerald Burgstaller, Frank Tacke, Vigo Heissmeyer, Yuval Rinkevich, Hasan Bayram, Herbert B. Schiller, Marcus Conrad, Robert Schneider, Ali Önder Yildirim

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Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-03-01

Deskripsi

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a progressive and incurable chronic condition that involves accumulation of inflammatory macrophages in the lung tissue. Authors here show in mouse models of lung disease that PRMT7, a protein arginine methyltransferase, is an important regulator of recruitment and the pro-inflammatory phenotype of macrophages.