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SUBMITTER: Gorvel L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5544929 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gorvel Laurent L Korenfeld Daniel D Tung Thomas T Klechevsky Eynav E
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20170712 4
Cytokines produced by dendritic cells (DCs) can largely determine the direction of immunity. Transcriptional analysis revealed that besides IL-15, IL-32 was the only other cytokine expressed by human Langerhans cells. IL-32 is a human cytokine that exists in four main isoforms. Currently, little is known about the regulation and function of the various IL-32 isoforms. In this study, we found that IL-15 is a potent inducer of IL-32α in DCs. Because IL-15 promotes NK cell activation, we investigat ...[more]