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Il7  -  interleukin 7

Mus musculus

Synonyms: A630026I06Rik, IL-7, Il-7, Interleukin-7, hlb368
 
 
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Disease relevance of Il7

 

High impact information on Il7

  • Among the cytokines sharing the gamma chain, at least IL-7 is essentially involved in early T cell development in the mouse organ culture system [4].
  • In agreement with representing a lymphoid primed progenitor, Lin-Sca-1+c-kit+CD34+Flt3+ cells display upregulated IL-7 receptor gene expression [5].
  • IL-7 and IL-7 receptor functions are believed to result in lymphoid cell proliferation and cell maturation, implying signal transduction pathways directly involved in mitogenesis and elaboration of developmentally specific new gene programs [6].
  • The gamma-chain is also a critical signaling component of IL-4, IL-7 and IL-9 receptors [7].
  • Here we report that this process is regulated by the alpha-chain of the receptor for interleukin-7, a cytokine that stimulates B-cell lymphopoiesis [8].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Il7

 

Biological context of Il7

 

Anatomical context of Il7

 

Associations of Il7 with chemical compounds

  • The BH3 only proteins, Bad and Bim, were also part of the death pathway repressed by IL-7 [20].
  • Stimulation of T cells with phorbol myristate acetate and IL-2, IL-4, or IL-7 prepared T cells to respond to any of the three lymphokines [21].
  • We demonstrate here that IL-7 in combination with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate can directly drive the proliferation of purified T cells and that this response is not inhibited by cyclosporine A or by antibodies to IL-2 and IL-4 [21].
  • Removal of the growth factors (IL-7, respectively IL-3) from the cultures results in differentiation to surface immunoglobulin (slg) positive, c-kit-, CD43-, surrogate light chain- B cells, a fraction of which is lipopolysaccharide (LPS) responsive as shown by IgM secretion [15].
  • Anti-phosphotyrosine antibody was used both to immunoprecipitate and Western blot, and showed that IL-7 induced tyrosine phosphorylation of a protein with a molecular weight of approximately 200 kDa [22].
 

Physical interactions of Il7

  • Studies with monoclonal antibodies specific for the IL-2 receptor gamma chain showed that the gamma chain participates in the functional high-affinity receptor complexes for IL-7 that are involved in the differentiation of T and B cells [23].
  • The antianabolic effects of IL-7 were consistent with an observed downregulation of the osteoblast-specific transcription factor core-binding factor alpha1/Runx2 [9].
 

Enzymatic interactions of Il7

  • Inasmuch as IL-7 is one of the cytokines most closely associated with early B-lineage development, we utilized BM adherent cells and stromal cell lines from IL-7 gene-deleted (-/-) mice in combination with rIL-7 and anti-IL-7 mAb to investigate its possible regulatory role in our culture system [24].
 

Regulatory relationships of Il7

 

Other interactions of Il7

 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Il7

References

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  13. Early B cell factor promotes B lymphopoiesis with reduced interleukin 7 responsiveness in the absence of E2A. Seet, C.S., Brumbaugh, R.L., Kee, B.L. J. Exp. Med. (2004) [Pubmed]
  14. Impaired CD8 T cell memory and CD4 T cell primary responses in IL-7R{alpha} mutant mice. Osborne, L.C., Dhanji, S., Snow, J.W., Priatel, J.J., Ma, M.C., Miners, M.J., Teh, H.S., Goldsmith, M.A., Abraham, N. J. Exp. Med. (2007) [Pubmed]
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  20. Bax deficiency partially corrects interleukin-7 receptor alpha deficiency. Khaled, A.R., Li, W.Q., Huang, J., Fry, T.J., Khaled, A.S., Mackall, C.L., Muegge, K., Young, H.A., Durum, S.K. Immunity (2002) [Pubmed]
  21. Interleukin 7 is a T-cell growth factor. Chazen, G.D., Pereira, G.M., LeGros, G., Gillis, S., Shevach, E.M. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1989) [Pubmed]
  22. IL-7 induces tyrosine phosphorylation of clathrin heavy chain. Jiang, Q., Benbernou, N., Chertov, O., Khaled, A.R., Wooters, J., Durum, S.K. Cell. Signal. (2004) [Pubmed]
  23. Functional participation of the IL-2 receptor gamma chain in IL-7 receptor complexes. Kondo, M., Takeshita, T., Higuchi, M., Nakamura, M., Sudo, T., Nishikawa, S., Sugamura, K. Science (1994) [Pubmed]
  24. Identification of an IL-7-associated pre-pro-B cell growth-stimulating factor (PPBSF). I. Production of the non-IL-7 component by bone marrow stromal cells from IL-7 gene-deleted mice. McKenna, S.D., Chen, F., Lai, L., Goldschneider, I. J. Immunol. (1998) [Pubmed]
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  28. Neutralizing IL-7 promotes long-term allograft survival induced by CD40/CD40L costimulatory blockade. Wang, Y., Dai, H., Liu, Z., Cheng, X., Tellides, G., Dai, Z. Am. J. Transplant. (2006) [Pubmed]
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