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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH
Volume 1864, Issue 3, Pages 516-526Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2016.12.006
Keywords
IL27; IFN gamma; IL6-type cytokines; Hepatocellular carcinoma; STAT transcription factors; SOCS3
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Funding
- University of Luxembourg grant Meta-IL6 [F1R-LSC-PUL-12MIL6]
- Fonds National de la Recherche grant HepmiRSTAT [R-AGR-0080-10-R]
- Fondation Cancer grant SOCS-CRC [F1R-LSC-PUL-09HYST]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [FZ82, SFB 487, B09]
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Interleukin-27 (IL27) is a type-I-cytokine of the IL6/IL12 family predominantly secreted by activated macrophages and dendritic cells. In the liver, IL27 expression was observed to be upregulated in patients with hepatitis B, and sera of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients contain significantly elevated levels of IL27 compared to healthy controls or patients with hepatitis and/or liver cirrhosis. In this study, we show that IL27 induces STAT1 and STAT3 phosphorylation in 5 HCC lines and 3 different types of non -transformed liver cells. We were especially interested in the relevance of the IL27-induced STAT3 activation in liver cells. Thus, we compared the IL27 responses with those induced by IFN gamma (STAT1-dominated response) or IL6-type cytokines (IL6, hyper-1L6 (hy-IL6) or OSM) (STAT3-dominated response) by microarray analysis and find that in HCC cells, IL27 induces an IFN gamma-like, STAT1-dependent transcriptional response, but we do not find an effective STAT3-dependent response. Validation experiments corroborate the finding from the microarray evaluation. Interestingly, the availability of STAT1 seems critical in the shaping of the IL27 response, as the siRNA knock-down of STAT1 revealed the ability of IL27 to induce the acute-phase protein gamma-fibrinogen, a typical IL6 family characteristic. Moreover, we describe a crosstalk between the signaling of IL6-type cytokines and IL27: responses to the gp130-engaging cytokine IL27 (but not those to IFNs) can be inhibited by IL6-type cytokine pre-stimulation, likely by a SOCS3-mediated mechanism. Thus, IL27 recapitulates IFN gamma responses in liver cells, but differs from IFN gamma by its sensitivity to SOCS3 inhibition. (C) 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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