title: Chicken interleukin-6. cDNA structure and biological properties.
abstract: Suppression subtractive hybridization technology was used to identify differentially expressed genes in spleens of chickens that had been treated with the synthetic immune modifier S-28463. One induced chicken gene encoded a protein with about 35% sequence identity to human interleukin-6 (IL-6). It consists of 241 amino acids including a putative N-terminal signal peptide of 47 residues. Bacterially expressed chicken IL-6 (ChIL-6) carrying a histidine tag in place of the signal peptide was biologically active: it induced proliferation of the IL-6-dependent murine hybridoma cell line 7TD1. The concentration of ChIL-6 required for half-maximal proliferative response was approximately 60 pg.mL-1. When injected intravenously into adult chickens, purified recombinant ChIL-6 induced an increase in serum corticosterone levels. Supernatants of chicken LMH and monkey COS-7 cells transiently transfected with a ChIL-6 expression construct induced proliferation of 7TD1 cells, demonstrating that recombinant ChIL-6 from eukaryotic cells is also active.
authors.affiliation: Department of Virology, Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Hygiene, University of Freiburg, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Klaas
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kaspers
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Staeheli
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000634:Aminoquinolines / Q000494:pharmacology; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015152:Blotting, Northern; D019556:COS Cells; D002455:Cell Division; D002645:Chickens; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism; D015723:Gene Library; D006639:Histidine / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D011061:Poly A; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013154:Spleen / Q000378:metabolism; D013997:Time Factors; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D000634:Aminoquinolines; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D015850:Interleukin-6; D021382:Protein Sorting Signals; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C099445:S 28463; D011061:Poly A; D006639:Histidine