Interleukins (from IL-1 to IL-38), interferons, transforming growth factor β, and TNF-α: Receptors, functions, and roles in diseases.

Abstract

There have been extensive developments on cellular and molecular mechanisms of immune regulation in allergy, asthma, autoimmune diseases, tumor development, organ transplantation, and chronic infections during the last few years. Better understanding the functions, reciprocal regulation, and counterbalance of subsets of immune and inflammatory cells that interact through interleukins, interferons, TNF-α, and TGF-β offer opportunities for immune interventions and novel treatment modalities in the era of development of biological immune response modifiers particularly targeting these molecules or their receptors. More than 60 cytokines have been designated as interleukins since the initial discoveries of monocyte and lymphocyte interleukins (called IL-1 and IL-2, respectively). Studies of transgenic or gene-deficient mice with altered expression of these cytokines or their receptors and analyses of mutations and polymorphisms in human genes that encode these products have provided essential information about their functions. Here we review recent developments on IL-1 to IL-38, TNF-α, TGF-β, and interferons. We highlight recent advances during the last few years in this area and extensively discuss their cellular sources, targets, receptors, signaling pathways, and roles in immune regulation in patients with allergy and asthma and other inflammatory diseases.

• Authors: Mübeccel Akdis, Alar Aab, Can Altunbulakli, Kursat Azkur, Rita A Costa, Reto Crameri, Su Duan, Thomas Eiwegger, Andrzej Eljaszewicz, Ruth Ferstl, Remo Frei, Mattia Garbani, Anna Globinska, Lena Hess, Carly Huitema, Terufumi Kubo, Zsolt Komlosi, Patricia Konieczna, Nora Kovacs, Umut C Kucuksezer, Norbert Meyer, Hideaki Morita, Judith Olzhausen, Liam O'Mahony, Marija Pezer, Moira Prati, Ana Rebane, Claudio Rhyner, Arturo Rinaldi, Milena Sokolowska, Barbara Stanic, Kazunari Sugita, Angela Treis, Willem van de Veen, Kerstin Wanke, Marcin Wawrzyniak, Paulina Wawrzyniak, Oliver F Wirz, Josefina Sierra Zakzuk, Cezmi A Akdis
• Journal: The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology (J Allergy Clin Immunol) Vol. 138 Issue 4 Pg. 984-1010 (10 2016) ISSN: 1097-6825 [Electronic] United States
• PMID: 27577879 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
• Copyright: Copyright © 2016 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Chemical References

• IL-38 protein, human
• Interleukins
• Transforming Growth Factor beta
• Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha
• Interferons

Topics

• Animals
• Humans
• Immune System Diseases
• Interferons (physiology)
• Interleukins (physiology)
• T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory (immunology)
• Transforming Growth Factor beta (physiology)
• Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha (physiology)