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IL-13R alpha 2 membrane and soluble isoforms differ in humans and mice.


ABSTRACT: Although mice have nanogram per milliliter serum levels of soluble (s) IL-13Ralpha2, humans lack sIL-13Ralpha2 in serum. Our data provide a mechanism for this biological divergence. In mice, discrete transcripts encoding soluble and membrane forms of IL-13Ralpha2 are generated by alternative splicing. We used small interfering RNA to specifically deplete the transcript encoding membrane (mem) IL-13Ralpha2 (full-length) or sIL-13Ralpha2 (DeltaEx10) in murine cells. Depletion of the full-length transcript decreased memIL-13Ralpha2 but had no effect on the level of sIL-13Ralpha2 in cell supernatants at baseline or following cytokine stimulation. Depletion of the DeltaEx10 transcript decreased sIL-13Ralpha2 in supernatants at baseline and following stimulation. In contrast to mice, we were unable to find a transcript encoding sIL-13Ralpha2 in humans and siRNA-mediated depletion of full-length IL-13Ralpha2 decreased both sIL-13Ralpha2 and memIL-13Ralpha2 in human cells. Inhibition of matrix metalloproteinases (MMP)/MMP-8 abolished production of sIL-13Ralpha2 from human cells. Thus, sIL-13Ralpha2 is derived exclusively from the memIL-13Ralpha2 transcript in humans through MMPs/MMP-8 cleavage of memIL-13Ralpha2, supporting a limited role for sIL-13Ralpha2 in humans and highlighting the potential importance of memIL-13Ralpha2 in human immunity. These observations require consideration when results of murine IL-13 studies are applied to humans.

SUBMITTER: Chen W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2822278 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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IL-13R alpha 2 membrane and soluble isoforms differ in humans and mice.

Chen Weiguo W   Sivaprasad Umasundari U   Tabata Yasuhiro Y   Gibson Aaron M AM   Stier Matthew T MT   Finkelman Fred D FD   Hershey Gurjit K Khurana GK  

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20091201 12


Although mice have nanogram per milliliter serum levels of soluble (s) IL-13Ralpha2, humans lack sIL-13Ralpha2 in serum. Our data provide a mechanism for this biological divergence. In mice, discrete transcripts encoding soluble and membrane forms of IL-13Ralpha2 are generated by alternative splicing. We used small interfering RNA to specifically deplete the transcript encoding membrane (mem) IL-13Ralpha2 (full-length) or sIL-13Ralpha2 (DeltaEx10) in murine cells. Depletion of the full-length tr  ...[more]

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