Involvement of nuclear factor-κB in induction of the interleukin-6 gene by leukemia inhibitory factor

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Abstract

Recent studies have indicated that the leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) induces secretion of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in myeloid cells. We here show that synthesis of IL-6 by human mononuclear phagocytes exposed to recombinant human (rh) LIF is preceded by an increase of IL-6 transcript levels as a result of transcriptional activation of the IL-6 gene. Analysis of deleted fragments of the IL-6 promoter indicated that transcriptional activation of the IL-6 promoter was associated with enhanced binding activity of the transcription factor nuclear factor (NF)-κB. Binding of activation protein (AP)-1 and NF-IL-6, also known to transcriptionally activate the IL-6 promoter, was not inducible by LIF. Furthermore, introduction of the NF-κB sequence into a heterologous promoter construct, but not of AP-1- and NF-IL-6-binding sequences, confered inducibility by LIF to this promoter. Deletion of the NF-κB binding site in the IL-6 promoter was associated with loss of inducibility by LIF, lending further support for the notion that the NF-κB binding site is crucial for LIF-mediated induction of the IL-6 promoter. Taken together, our results show that rhLIF induces IL-6 gene expression in mononuclear phagocytes through transcriptional gene activation involving NF-κB. © 1992 by The American Society of Hematology.

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Gruss, H. J., Brach, M. A., & Herrmann, F. (1992). Involvement of nuclear factor-κB in induction of the interleukin-6 gene by leukemia inhibitory factor. Blood, 80(10), 2563–2570. https://doi.org/10.1182/blood.v80.10.2563.bloodjournal80102563

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