Display Settings:

Format

Send to:

Choose Destination
    Clin Exp Immunol. 1991 Mar;83(3):488-91.

    Acute-phase protein synthesis in human hepatoma cells: differential regulation of serum amyloid A (SAA) and haptoglobin by interleukin-1 and interleukin-6.

    Source

    Department of Clinical Sciences, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, England.

    Abstract

    Interleukin-6 (IL-6, BSF-2 or IFN-beta 2) is thought to be the major regulator of the acute-phase protein response that follows tissue injury and inflammation, with interleukin-1 (IL-1), tumour necrosis factor and more recently, LIF or HSF III, slightly stimulatory on only certain acute phase proteins. The synthesis of the major acute-phase protein SAA, originally described as being synthesized in response to IL-1, has been claimed recently to be mainly under IL-6 regulation. Our results show that in the human hepatoma cell line HuH-7, IL-1 is the major stimulating cytokine increasing SAA synthesis by a factor in excess of 100-fold. We also show that under most conditions interleukin-6 and tumour necrosis factor stimulate additively in combination with IL-1. Isoelectric focusing has demonstrated that SAA1 and SAA2 alpha are expressed but not SAA2 beta. The HuH-7 cell line is IL-6 responsive since haptoglobin is stimulated mainly by IL-6.

    PMID:
    1706240
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC1535311
    Free PMC Article

      Supplemental Content

      Icon for PubMed Central

      Save items

      loading

      Recent activity

      Your browsing activity is empty.

      Activity recording is turned off.

      Turn recording back on

      See more...
      Write to the Help Desk