title: Interleukin-1 (IL-1) pathway.
abstract: 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-1alpha or IL-1beta by the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1RA) has demonstrated a central role of IL-1 in a number of human autoinflammatory diseases. IL-1alpha or IL-1beta rapidly increase messenger RNA expression of hundreds of genes in multiple different cell types. The potent proinflammatory activities of IL-1alpha and IL-1beta 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-1alpha or IL-1beta, 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 kappaB 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, IkappaBalpha, IL-1alpha, IL-1beta, 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.
authors.affiliation: Rudolf-Buchheim-Institute of Pharmacology, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wasiliew
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kracht
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016207:Cytokines / Q000378:metabolism; D025461:Feedback, Physiological; D006801:Humans; D007375:Interleukin-1 / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D016207:Cytokines; D007375:Interleukin-1