Interleukin-10 and related cytokines and receptors

S Pestka, CD Krause, D Sarkar, MR Walter… - Annu. Rev …, 2004 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The Class 2 α-helical cytokines consist of interleukin-10 (IL-10), IL-19, IL-20, IL-22,
IL-24 (Mda-7), and IL-26, interferons (IFN-α,-β,-ε,-κ,-ω,-δ,-τ, and-γ) and interferon-like …

Keratinocytes and cytokines

A Gröne - Veterinary immunology and immunopathology, 2002 - Elsevier
The skin has long been recognized as a major producer of cytokines, but the keratinocyte as
principal epidermal cell has received less attention as potential source and target of …

The effects of IL-20 subfamily cytokines on reconstituted human epidermis suggest potential roles in cutaneous innate defense and pathogenic adaptive immunity in …

SM Sa, PA Valdez, J Wu, K Jung, F Zhong… - The Journal of …, 2007 - journals.aai.org
Abstract IL-19, IL-20, IL-22, IL-24, and IL-26 are members of the IL-10 family of cytokines that
have been shown to be up-regulated in psoriatic skin. Contrary to IL-10, these cytokines …

Class II cytokine receptors and their ligands: key antiviral and inflammatory modulators

JC Renauld - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2003 - nature.com
Class II cytokine receptors were originally defined on the basis of sequence homologies in
the extracellular domains of receptors for interferons (IFNs) and interleukin-10 (IL-10), and …

The protein product of the tumor suppressor gene, melanoma differentiation-associated gene 7, exhibits immunostimulatory activity and is designated IL-24

EG Caudell, JB Mumm, N Poindexter… - The Journal of …, 2002 - journals.aai.org
The melanoma differentiation-associated gene 7 (mda-7) has been studied primarily in the
context of its tumor suppressor activity. Although mda-7 has been designated as IL-24 based …

Interleukin (IL)‐19, IL‐20 and IL‐24 are produced by and act on keratinocytes and are distinct from classical ILs

S Kunz, K Wolk, E Witte, K Witte… - Experimental …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their structural similarity, interleukin (IL)‐19, IL‐20, IL‐22, IL‐24 and IL‐26 were
combined with IL‐10 in the so‐called IL‐10 family. To expand the knowledge on IL‐19, IL …

The family of IL-10-related cytokines and their receptors: related, but to what extent?

SV Kotenko - Cytokine & growth factor reviews, 2002 - Elsevier
Five novel cytokines (IL-19, IL-20, IL-22 (IL-TIF), IL-24 (human MDA-7, mouse FISP, rat
C49A/Mob-5), and IL-26 (AK155)) demonstrating limited primary sequence identity and …

Is mda-7/IL-24 a “Magic Bullet” for Cancer?

PB Fisher - Cancer research, 2005 - AACR
The “holy grail” of cancer therapy is to identify and exploit genetic elements and signal
transduction pathways capable of selectively destroying tumor cells without eliciting harmful …

Clinical and local biological effects of an intratumoral injection of mda-7 (IL24; INGN 241) in patients with advanced carcinoma: a phase I study

CC Cunningham, S Chada, JA Merritt, A Tong… - Molecular therapy, 2005 - cell.com
The melanoma differentiation-associated gene-7 (mda-7; approved gene symbol IL24) is a
tumor suppressor gene whose expression induces selective apoptosis in tumor cells. To …

The cancer growth suppressing gene mda-7 induces apoptosis selectively in human melanoma cells

IV Lebedeva, Z Su, Y Chang, S Kitada, JC Reed… - Oncogene, 2002 - nature.com
Human melanoma cells growth arrest irreversibly, lose tumorigenic potential and terminally
differentiate after treatment with a combination of fibroblast interferon (IFN-β) and the protein …