title: Characterization and comparison of the interleukin 13 receptor with the interleukin 4 receptor on several cell types.
abstract: We describe here the characterization of the interleukin (IL) 13 receptor and a comparison with the IL-4 receptor on different cell types. Several, but not all, of the IL-4 receptor-positive cells showed specific IL-13 binding, which was always completely displaced by IL-4. In the IL-13 receptor-positive cells, the IL-13 either completely or partially displaced the labeled IL-4. Further characterization of the IL-13 receptor in two cell lines, COS-3 and A431, representative of the groups of complete and partial displacement of IL-4 by IL-13, respectively, showed that the IL-13 binds with high affinity (Kd approximately 300 pM) to both cells and that the number of binding sites is, in COS-3 cells, equivalent to that for IL-4 and, in A431 cells, is smaller than that for IL-4. Cross-linking of labeled IL-13 yielded, on COS-3 cells, two affinity-labeled complexes of 220 and 70 kDa, and on A431 cells, one complex of 70 kDa; labeled IL-4 yielded on both cells the same pattern of three complexes of 220, 145, and 70 kDa. Altogether, these results suggest that the IL-13 receptor may be constituted by a subset of the IL-4 receptor complex associated with at least one additional protein.
authors.affiliation: Sanofi Recherche, Labège, France.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Vita
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lefort
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Laurent
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Caput
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ferrara
mesh_terms: D000345:Affinity Labels; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D006801:Humans; D018793:Interleukin-13 / Q000378:metabolism*; D053661:Interleukin-13 Receptor alpha1 Subunit; D015847:Interleukin-4 / Q000378:metabolism*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D018123:Receptors, Interleukin / Q000378:metabolism*; D053660:Receptors, Interleukin-13; D019948:Receptors, Interleukin-4; D011975:Receptors, Mitogen / Q000378:metabolism*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000345:Affinity Labels; C508181:IL13RA1 protein, human; D018793:Interleukin-13; D053661:Interleukin-13 Receptor alpha1 Subunit; D018123:Receptors, Interleukin; D053660:Receptors, Interleukin-13; D019948:Receptors, Interleukin-4; D011975:Receptors, Mitogen; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D015847:Interleukin-4