MOLECULAR-CLONING OF EQUINE INTERLEUKIN-1-ALPHA AND INTERLEUKIN-1-BETA CDNAS

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作者
KATO, H [1 ]
OHASHI, T [1 ]
NAKAMURA, N [1 ]
NISHIMURA, Y [1 ]
WATARI, T [1 ]
GOITSUKA, R [1 ]
TSUJIMOTO, H [1 ]
HASEGAWA, A [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TOKYO,FAC AGR,DEPT VET INTERNAL MED,BUNKYO KU,TOKYO 113,JAPAN
关键词
INTERLEUKIN-1; HORSE; MOLECULAR CLONING;
D O I
10.1016/0165-2427(95)05441-8
中图分类号
R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
学科分类号
100102 ;
摘要
Equine interleukin-1 alpha (IL-1 alpha) and IL-1 beta were molecularly cloned to establish a basis for research on inflammatory and immune responses in the horse. Equine peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) were stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and cDNA clones of equine IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta covering the whole coding sequences were isolated from them. These equine IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta clones contained open reading frames encoding 271 and 269 amino acids, respectively. The deduced amino acid sequence of equine IL-1 alpha showed 71.6% and 60.2% similarity with that of human and murine IL-1 alpha, respectively. Similarly, the amino acid sequence of equine IL-1 beta showed 66.7% and 61.8% similarity with that of human and murine IL-1 beta, respectively. In both equine IL-1 alpha and IL-1 beta, amino acids at miristoylation sites were well conserved. Dot blot analysis indicated that the expression of IL-1 beta was predominant to that of IL-1 alpha in equine PBMC stimulated with LPS or phorbol myristate acetate.
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