Review Article

Beyond Immune Cell Migration: The Emerging Role of the Sphingosine-1-phosphate Receptor S1PR4 as a Modulator of Innate Immune Cell Activation

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S1PR4 signaling. S1PR4 couples to Gαi and Gα12/13 to regulate cell survival, actin dynamics, and receptor trafficking. Gαi activation downstream of S1PR4 mediates cytosolic Ca2+ increases via PLC and directly or indirectly induces ERK1/2 and Src signaling. Gα12/13 predominantly triggers RhoA and subsequent ROCK activity. Cell type-specific signaling events are indicated. Details can be found in the main text. ERK: extracellular-signal regulated kinase; HER2: human epidermal growth factor receptor 2; ILT7: immunoglobulin-like transcript 7; NGF: nerve growth factor; PLC: phospholipase C; PTEN: phosphatase and tensin homolog; RhoGEF: Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor; ROCK: RhoA kinase; TRKA: tropomyosin receptor kinase A.