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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 138, Issue 12 4249-4255, Copyright © 1987 by American Association of Immunologists
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O Bakouche, DC Brown and LB Lachman
IL 1 activity, as assayed by the proliferation of responsive mouse thymocytes and a human astrocytoma cell line, was detected on the membrane of 1% paraformaldehyde-fixed activated human monocytes. Resting, unactivated monocytes did not display IL 1 activity. Maximum induction of membrane IL 1 was obtained from monocytes treated with polyclonal activators, such as LPS or Staphylococcus aureus, whereas adherence was a weak inducer of membrane IL 1. Isolated cell compartments as plasma membranes, crude lysosomes, and crude cytosol from activated human monocytes expressed significant IL 1 activity, whereas the endoplasmic reticulum showed no IL 1 activity. Exposure to trypsin of either fixed, activated human monocytes or cell compartments from unfixed monocytes, revealed biologically active IL 1 in the membrane, crude lysosome, and crude cytosol, but not in the endoplasmic reticulum. The IL 1 activity in the purified cytosol, prepared by extraction with digitonin, was considerably increased by the trypsin treatment, whereas the increase in IL 1 activity within crude lysosomes and plasma membranes was less. The cell compartments from nonactivated monocytes did not express active IL 1 and trypsin treatment revealed no active IL 1, suggesting the absence of a pool of the trypsin-sensitive form of IL 1. The data confirm the presence of membrane-bound IL 1 in activated human monocytes and indicate that an inactive precursor molecule can be found in the cytosol of such cells. Furthermore, the absence of IL 1 activity either in its active form or as the inactive precursor in the endoplasmic reticulum suggests that IL 1 is not a conventionally secreted protein. Because IL 1 was found in the cytosol as a precursor and in the lysosomal fractions in an active form, these data suggest that after the synthesis and processing of the cytosolic precursor, the 17-kda IL 1, is released via lysosomal vesicles.
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