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Query: UNIPROT:P10145 (
IL-8
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Interleukin-8
(
IL-8
) is a key mediator in the migration of neutrophils from the circulation to the site of inflammation in the tissue.
IL-8
is secreted by many cell types in response to proinflammatory stimuli such as interleukin 1, tumor necrosis factor, and lipopolysaccharide and is a potent chemoattractant and activator of neutrophils. Neutrophil activating peptide-2 (NAP-2) and melanoma growth-stimulatory activity (MGSA/
GRO
) are structurally and functionally related to
IL-8
and, like
IL-8
, bind to specific G protein-coupled receptors on neutrophils. In the present study two closely related cloned IL-8 receptor subtypes are characterized by expression of the cDNA clones in monkey kidney cells (COS-7) or chinese hamster ovary cells and analysis of their ligand binding profiles. Both receptor subtypes bind 125I-labeled
IL-8
with similar high affinity, however, the F3R receptor binds
IL-8
exclusively, while the 4Ab receptor binds both
IL-8
and MGSA/
GRO
with high affinity and NAP-2 with lesser affinity. Furthermore, we demonstrate with the use of intersubtype chimeric receptors that the specificity of ligand binding to both IL-8 receptor subtypes is dictated by the heterogeneous NH2-terminal domain. The F3R receptor is representative of a restricted IL-8 receptor subtype, and 4Ab represents a nonrestricted receptor subtype. It is proposed that these subtypes be named
IL-8
receptors alpha and beta, respectively.
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PMID:Amino terminus of the interleukin-8 receptor is a major determinant of receptor subtype specificity. 128 Nov 58
Interleukin-8
(
IL-8
) is the prototype for a family of at least eight neutrophil chemoattractants whose genes map to human chromosome 4q13-q21. Two human
IL-8
receptors, IL8RA and IL8RB, are known from cDNA cloning; IL8RA is a promiscuous receptor for at least two other related ligands,
GRO
alpha and NAP-2. We now report cloning of the genes for IL8RA, IL8RB and a recently inactivated pseudogene of receptor A (IL8RAP). These form a cluster of only three genes in the superfamily of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and map to 2q34-q35. The coevolutionary diversity displayed by the
IL-8
ligand-receptor complex--ligand promiscuity for
IL-8
, receptor promiscuity for IL8RA, gene duplication for both ligands and receptors and gene extinction in the case of IL8RAP--is unprecedented for the GPCR superfamily.
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PMID:Molecular evolution of the human interleukin-8 receptor gene cluster. 130 45
The
GRO
genes, isolated from transformed fibroblasts, belong to a superfamily of genes such as platelet factor 4 and neutrophil activating peptide/
IL-8
. Three related
GRO
genes are described which are closely linked on chromosome 4:
GRO
alpha,
GRO
beta, and
GRO
gamma:
GRO
beta and
GRO
gamma share 90 and 86% sequence homology with
GRO
alpha. The
GRO
alpha gene product shares homology with, and is melanocyte growth stimulatory activity (MGSA). The MGSA/
GRO
alpha has potent chemotactic, growth regulatory and transformative functions. The function of
GRO
beta and gamma is unknown. Expression of
GRO
alpha is well characterized in vitro; studies in actual human tissues are not reported. We chose to determine the specific expression of
GRO
alpha, beta and gamma in both normal and transformed human colonic tissues and to assess the role of exogenous cytokines on their induction. Tissues from ten patients with colonic neoplasia were obtained at the time of colectomy. All specimens underwent Northern analysis for
GRO
gene expression, comparing normal colonic mucosa with neoplastic mucosa. Differential
GRO
alpha, beta and gamma expressions were determined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR).
GRO
alpha expression was evaluated in the tumour specimens compared with normal, while there was constitutive expression of
GRO
gamma in both normal and neoplastic colonic mucosa. Expression of
GRO
beta was minimal in all tissue specimens. In addition, HT29 colon carcinoma cells stimulated with IL-1 beta and TNF alpha demonstrated induction of
GRO
alpha and
IL-8
. Thus,
GRO
alpha is differently elevated in in vivo colon carcinoma specimens.
GRO
gamma was constitutively expressed in colonic tissues;
GRO
beta was not similarly expressed.
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PMID:Characterization of GRO alpha, beta and gamma expression in human colonic tumours: potential significance of cytokine involvement. 134 Dec 67
Alveolar macrophages (AM) mediate lung inflammation by producing lipid and peptide molecules that attract neutrophils (PMN) to the lung. Recently we described two porcine proteins called alveolar macrophage-derived chemotactic factors,
AMCF-I
and -II, that are potent, efficacious, and specific PMN chemoattractants both in vitro and in vivo. We report here the cloning of the full-length cDNAs which code for each protein. Porcine AM were stimulated for 4 h in vitro with Escherichia coli endotoxin (LPS), and a cDNA library was created from poly(A)(+)-selected mRNA. Specific oligonucleotide probes for
AMCF-I
and AMCF-II were amplified from the porcine AM cDNA library by the polymerase chain reaction using degenerate oligonucleotide primer pairs derived from the N-terminal amino acid sequences of the proteins. These probes were used to isolate 2 full-length cDNAs of 1466 (
AMCF-I
) and 1515 (AMCF-II) base pairs. Both cDNAs code for proteins with four cysteine residues containing the C-X-C sequence characteristic of the intercrine-alpha family of neutrophil chemoattractants.
AMCF-I
shares 74% identity with human
IL-8
and 84% identity with rabbit
IL-8
, and likely represents the porcine homologue of
IL-8
. By contrast, AMCF-II has no obvious human homologue. AMCF-II shares 53% identity with human neutrophil activating peptide 2. Its shared identity with the
GRO
-related proteins is as high as 61% (rat CINC/
GRO
), and its shared identity with the 78 amino acid epithelial cell-derived neutrophil activator (ENA-78) is 67%. AMCF-II may represent a new member of the intercrine-alpha family of neutrophil chemoattractants.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Molecular cloning of porcine alveolar macrophage-derived neutrophil chemotactic factors I and II; identification of porcine IL-8 and another intercrine-alpha protein. 142 Jan 65
Neutrophil elicitation into tissue is an essential element of the host defense in response to various stimuli, including, tissue injury, infection, or cancer. This event has gained renewed interest with the discovery of a family of small polypeptides (less than 10 kD). The salient features of these cytokines are the presence of four cysteine amino acids (first two separated by one amino acid; C-X-C) and their ability to induce neutrophil chemotaxis and activation. Recently, our laboratories have discovered a new member of this C-X-C chemotactic cytokine supergene family, neutrophil-activating peptide, ENA-78. ENA-78 shares significant amino acid sequence homology with neutrophil activating peptide-2 (NAP-2; 53%), growth regulated oncogene/melanoma growth stimulatory activity (
GRO
alpha; 52%), and
IL-8
(22%). In addition, ENA-78 appears to activate neutrophils through the IL-8 receptor. Since both in vitro and in vivo biological fluids may contain an array of chemotactic cytokines that may be relevant to the activation and chemotaxis of neutrophils, we have developed a highly specific and sensitive sandwich ELISA for the detection of ENA-78.
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PMID:The detection of a novel neutrophil-activating peptide (ENA-78) using a sensitive ELISA. 142 26
Interleukin-8
(
IL-8
) is a potent chemotactic factor for neutrophils and T lymphocytes. Various reagents such as lectins, mitogens, IL-1, TNF, induce
IL-8
production in a wide range of cells and tissues. The
IL-8
gene is known to be activated by AP-1, NF-kB like factor and C/EBP like factor, but the relative importance of these transcriptional factors varies from cell to cell. Two types of human IL-8 receptor cDNA have recently been cloned. Both are G-protein coupled receptors and the amino acid sequences are highly homologous. Other members of the
IL-8
family, such as
GRO
/MGSA and MIP2, bind to
IL-8
receptors, and the receptors of other chemoattractants such as fMLP and C5a, show high homology to the
IL-8
receptors.
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PMID:[Function, molecular structure and gene expression of IL-8]. 143 73
GRO
alpha and neutrophil-activating peptide 2 (NAP-2), like their analog
interleukin 8
(
IL-8
), are considered to be inflammatory mediators since they recruit and activate neutrophil leukocytes. After introduction of tyrosines by substitution for other residues at the C terminus,
GRO
alpha and NAP-2 were labeled with 125I and used for binding studies. A total of 60,000-90,000 receptors per neutrophil were found for either ligand. Of these 30-45% were of high affinity with a mean Kd value of 0.3 and 0.7 nM for
GRO
alpha and NAP-2, respectively, and 55-70% of low affinity (Kd = 30 nM). Two proteins of approximately 70 kDa and 44 kDa (p70 and p44) were specifically cross-linked with labeled
GRO
alpha, NAP-2, and
IL-8
. Unlabeled
IL-8
fully inhibited this cross-linking and the binding of labeled
GRO
alpha or NAP-2 to the high-affinity sites on neutrophils or neutrophil membranes. Treatment of membranes with digitonin resulted in the preferential solubilization of a single receptor species, corresponding to p44, that bound
GRO
alpha and NAP-2 with low affinity (Kd = 30 nM) and
IL-8
with high affinity (Kd = 0.4 nM). Exposure of neutrophil membranes to 100 microM guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate led to a 75-fold increase of the Kd in approximately 60% of the
IL-8
receptors. High-affinity receptors for
GRO
alpha and NAP-2 were similarly affected. In contrast, guanosine 5'-[gamma-thio]triphosphate had no effect on the binding of
IL-8
to p44 solubilized by digitonin. These results demonstrate that human neutrophils bear two classes of receptors for
GRO
alpha, NAP-2, and
IL-8
(p70 and p44) that may differ in their mode of interaction with GTP regulatory proteins.
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PMID:High- and low-affinity binding of GRO alpha and neutrophil-activating peptide 2 to interleukin 8 receptors on human neutrophils. 143 44
Human members of a family of structurally related cytokines, which play a role as effectors of inflammation, were analyzed for their expression and regulation in T lymphocytes. Members of this gene family include Platelet Basic Protein (PBP); Platelet Factor 4 (PF-4);
IL-8
/
NAP-1
; IP-10, a gamma interferon induced protein;
GRO
; pAT 464 and pAT 744. In resting T lymphocytes the RNAs of the individual genes could not be detected, but all genes were induced upon stimulation with PHA or with PHA/PMA. The induction of five genes was blocked by the immunosuppresive drug cyclosporin A (CSA), which appears to affect initial events in T cell activation. This expression in T lymphocytes, especially the sensitivity to CSA, indicates a common immunmodulatory role of these structural related proteins.
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PMID:Induction of members of the IL-8/NAP-1 gene family in human T lymphocytes is suppressed by cyclosporin A. 172 Mar 6
The human melanoma growth-stimulatory activities (MGSA alpha, beta, gamma/
GRO
) are products of immediate early genes coding for cytokines that exhibit sequence similarity to platelet factor-4 and beta-thromboglobulin. MGSA/
GRO
alpha has been demonstrated to partially complete for binding to the approximately 58-kDa neutrophil receptor for another beta-thromboglobulin-related chemotactic protein,
IL-8
. We demonstrate that when [125I]MGSA/
GRO
alpha was cross-linked to receptors/binding proteins from human placenta, there were two major [125I]MGSA cross-linked bands of approximately 64,000 and approximately 84,000 Mr. Because [125I]MGSA exists primarily in monomer and dimer forms at the concentrations used here, it is not clear whether the receptor/binding proteins represented by the cross-linked bands are approximately 50,000 and approximately 70,000 or approximately 58,000 and approximately 78,000 Mr. Ligand binding to the receptor proteins is associated with enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of a number of substrates, including proteins in the same Mr range as the MGSA/
GRO
receptor/binding proteins.
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PMID:The melanoma growth stimulatory activity receptor consists of two proteins. Ligand binding results in enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation. 172 65
A new neutrophil-activating peptide, termed ENA-78, was identified in the conditioned media of stimulated human type II epithelial cell line A549. In response to stimulation with either interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) or tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha), ENA-78 was produced and secreted concomitantly with
IL-8
,
GRO
alpha, and
GRO
gamma. ENA-78 consists of 78 amino acids [sequence; see text] and has a molecular weight of 8,357. It has four cysteines positioned identically to those of
IL-8
and analogues, and thus belongs to the CXC family of peptides. ENA-78 is related to neutrophil-activating peptide 2 (NAP-2) and
GRO
alpha (sequence identity, 53% and 52%, respectively) and
IL-8
(22% identity). Like NAP-2 and
GRO
alpha, ENA-78 stimulates neutrophils, inducing chemotaxis, a rise in intracellular free calcium and exocytosis. Cross-desensitization experiments indicate that ENA-78 acts through the same type of receptors as
IL-8
, NAP-2, and
GRO
alpha.
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PMID:Structure and neutrophil-activating properties of a novel inflammatory peptide (ENA-78) with homology to interleukin 8. 174 77
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