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Bile acids and the microbiome: revolutionising disease approaches

Drug Target Review

Bile acids are crucial signalling molecules that aid the regulation of the immune system and have essential metabolic functions, like controlling lipid and glucose metabolism. Biochemical Pharmacology. Also, they help to explain how microbes in the gut can influence distant organ systems. Gut Microbes.

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Targeting the immunotherapy potential of cytokines IL-12 and IL-18 with new advancements in protein engineering

Drug Target Review

This suppressive mechanism involves a negative regulator – a protein called IL-18BP or IL-18 binding protein, that works as a “decoy receptor” by binding to IL-18 and preventing it from binding to its functional receptor. Clinical development of IL-18 therapies has been curtailed, however, by the protein’s lack of efficacy.