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Human herpesvirus 8-encoded interleukin-6 homologue (viral IL-6) induces endogenous human IL-6 secretion.

We found that human herpesvirus 8-encoded IL-6 (vIL-6) induced endogenous human IL-6 (huIL-6) secretion from various cell lines (MT-4, THP-1, U937, Raji, and CESS) including patients with multicentric Castleman's disease. Especially, in MT-4 cells, huIL-6 was enhanced with vIL-6 by 30-fold compared with that of control. In addition, reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction confirmed that vIL-6 induced huIL-6 expression in MT-4 cells. Our novel finding of the huIL-6 induction by vIL-6 indicates that vIL-6 may play a significant role in the pathogenesis of HHV-8 associated diseases.[1]

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  1. Human herpesvirus 8-encoded interleukin-6 homologue (viral IL-6) induces endogenous human IL-6 secretion. Mori, Y., Nishimoto, N., Ohno, M., Inagi, R., Dhepakson, P., Amou, K., Yoshizaki, K., Yamanishi, K. J. Med. Virol. (2000) [Pubmed]
 
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