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CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 59, Issue 3, Pages 560-569Publisher
BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-002-8448-0
Keywords
interleukin-10; cytokine; polymorphism; transcription factor; allele frequency; transcription
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Genotypic variation in the human interleukin-10 (IL-10) promoter may account for marked inter-individual variation in IL-10 production and may influence susceptibility to autoimmune diseases. The G/A polymorphism at position -1082 has been linked to high/low IL-10 producer status. We directly tested the functional significance of this polymorphism using DNA-binding assays and reporter gene assays, examined allele frequencies in two geographically distinct populations and assessed intra- and inter-individual variation in IL-10 production in vitro according to genotype. Functional analyses showed that the -1082 region contains a putative ETS-like transcription factor-binding site, and nuclear factors from a monocyte cell line bind to this region. Transient transfection studies in an Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B cell line indicated that the -1082 A allele confers a two fold increase in transcriptional activity of the IL-10 promoter compared to the G allele. There was marked inter-individual variation in IL-10 production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells in vitro, with no consistent effect of genotype.
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