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Activation and Measurement of NLRP3 Inflammasome Activity Using IL-1β in Human Monocyte-derived Dendritic Cells
Published on: May 22, 2014
There is more than one interleukin 1
J J Oppenheim1, E J Kovacs, K Matsushima
1Laboratory of Molecular Immunoregulation, Biological Response Modifiers Program, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21701, USA.
Abstract:
In 1972, Gery and co-workers(1) detected a factor that promotes murine thymocyte proliferation in culture supernatants of human peripheral blood adherent leukocytes. This factor is active across species lines, does not support the growth of interleukin 2 (IL-2)-dependent lymphocyte lines, is produced by monocytic rather than lymphocytic leukocytes, and has subsequently been termed interleukin 1 (IL- 1)(2). More recently, it has become evident that IL-1 activities can be produced by virtually every nucleated cell type and, in addition, IL-1 has been reported to have stimulatory effects on the growth and differentiation of numerous cell types. In this review, Joost Oppenheim and his colleagues discuss the biochemical characteristics, gene cloning, cell sources, biological properties and actions of IL-1, and give reasons why this pleitotropic, nonspecific hormone-like cytokine is of considerable concern to immunologists.
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