An integrated signal transduction network of macrophage migration inhibitory factor

作者：Subbannayya Tejaswini; Variar Prathyaksha; Advani Jayshree; Nair Bipin; Shankar Subramanian; Gowda Harsha; Saussez Sven; Chatterjee Aditi^*; Prasad T S Keshava^*

来源：Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling, 2016, 10(2): 165-170.

DOI：10.1007/s12079-016-0326-x

• Immune response
• Inflammation
• NetSlim
• Pro-inflammatory cytokine
• Post-translational modifications
• Protein-protein interactions

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a glycosylated multi-functional protein that acts as an enzyme as well as a cytokine. MIF mediates its actions through a cell surface class II major histocompatibility chaperone, CD74 and co-receptors such as CD44, CXCR2, CXCR4 or CXCR7. MIF has been implicated in the pathogenesis of several acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. Although MIF is a molecule of biomedical importance, a public resource of MIF signaling pathway is currently lacking. In view of this, we carried out detailed data mining and documentation of the signaling events pertaining to MIF from published literature and developed an integrated reaction map of MIF signaling. This resulted in the cataloguing of 68 molecules belonging to MIF signaling pathway, which includes 24 protein-protein interactions, 44 post-translational modifications, 11 protein translocation events and 8 activation/inhibition events. In addition, 65 gene regulation events at the mRNA levels induced by MIF signaling have also been catalogued. This signaling pathway has been integrated into NetPath (http://www.netpath.org), a freely available human signaling pathway resource developed previously by our group. The MIF pathway data is freely available online in various community standard data exchange formats. We expect that data on signaling events and a detailed signaling map of MIF will provide the scientific community with an improved platform to facilitate further molecular as well as biomedical investigations on MIF.

• 出版日期2016-6
• 单位中国人民武装警察部队后勤学院