• DOI:10.1126/scisignal.3105cm1
• Corpus ID: 10388683

Interleukin-1 (IL-1) Pathway

@article{Weber2010Interleukin1P,
  title={Interleukin-1 (IL-1) Pathway},
  author={Axel Weber and Peter Wasiliew and Michael Kracht},
  journal={Science Signaling},
  year={2010},
  volume={3},
  pages={cm1 - cm1}
}

• A. Weber, P. Wasiliew, M. Kracht
• Published 19 January 2010
• Biology
• Science Signaling

IL-1α and IL-1β orchestrate the proinflammatory response by multiple tightly controlled mechanisms. The interleukin-1 (IL-1) family of cytokines comprises 11 proteins (IL-1F1 to IL-1F11) encoded by 11 distinct genes in humans and mice. IL-1–type cytokines are major mediators of innate immune reactions, and blockade of the founding members IL-1α or IL-1β by the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) has demonstrated a central role of IL-1 in a number of human autoinflammatory diseases. IL-1α or IL-1β rapidly increase messenger RNA expression of hundreds of genes in multiple different cell types. The potent proinflammatory activities of IL-1α and IL-1β are restricted at three major levels: (i) synthesis and release, (ii) membrane receptors, and (iii) intracellular signal transduction. This pathway summarizes extracellular and intracellular signaling of IL-1α or IL-1β, including positive- and negative-feedback mechanisms that amplify or terminate the IL-1 response. In response to ligand binding of the receptor, a complex sequence of combinatorial phosphorylation and ubiquitination events results in activation of nuclear factor κB signaling and the JNK and p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways, which, cooperatively, induce the expression of canonical IL-1 target genes (such as IL-6, IL-8, MCP-1, COX-2, IκBα, IL-1α, IL-1β, MKP-1) by transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms. Of note, most intracellular components that participate in the cellular response to IL-1 also mediate responses to other cytokines (IL-18 and IL-33), Toll-like-receptors (TLRs), and many forms of cytotoxic stresses.