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Cloning and expression of murine interleukin-1 cDNA in Escherichia coli.

Interleukin-1 ( IL-1), a peptide hormone produced by activated macrophages, possesses the ability to modulate the proliferation, maturation and functional activation of a broad spectrum of cell types and may play a major role in the initiation and amplification of immune and inflammatory responses through its action on these diverse cell populations. IL-1 exhibits microheterogeneity in terms of its relative molecular mass (Mr, 13,000-19,000) and charge properties, and although murine IL-1 has been purified and some of its basic structure-function relationships have been elucidated, it has proved difficult to prepare sufficient amounts of IL-1 for direct and detailed sequence and structural studies. Here we report the cloning, sequence analysis and expression of murine IL-1 cDNA in Escherichia coli. The IL-1 cDNA codes for a polypeptide precursor of 270 amino acids. Biologically active IL-1 was produced in E. coli by expressing the carboxy-terminal 156 amino acids of the IL-1 precursor.[1]

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  1. Cloning and expression of murine interleukin-1 cDNA in Escherichia coli. Lomedico, P.T., Gubler, U., Hellmann, C.P., Dukovich, M., Giri, J.G., Pan, Y.C., Collier, K., Semionow, R., Chua, A.O., Mizel, S.B. Nature (1984) [Pubmed]
 
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