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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 154, Issue 5 2321-2332, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Human IL-1 beta processing and secretion in recombinant baculovirus- infected Sf9 cells is blocked by the cowpox virus serpin crmA

AD Howard, OC Palyha, PR Griffin, EP Peterson, AB Lenny, GJ Ding, DJ Pickup, NA Thornberry, JA Schmidt and MJ Tocci
Department of Immunology, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ 07065.

Biologically active, mature IL-1 beta (mIL-1 beta) is released from activated monocytes after proteolytic processing from an inactive precursor (pIL-1 beta). IL-1 beta converting enzyme (ICE), the first member of a newly discovered family of cysteine proteinases, is required for this processing event. The cleaved cytokine is released from monocytes by an unknown mechanism which does not employ a standard hydrophobic signal sequence. As in mammalian fibroblasts, insect Sf9 cells do not normally process or secrete human IL-1 beta. The expression of active ICE enables Sf9 cells to process 31-kDa pIL-1 beta correctly at Asp27 and Asp116, and to export 17.5-kDa mIL-1 beta. The recombinant heterodimeric human enzyme purified from Sf9 cells possesses a sp. act. of 2.9 +/- 0.5 x 10(6) U/mg and is indistinguishable from native ICE with regard to its subunit composition and catalytic properties. In this system, co-expression of the cowpox virus crmA gene, an extremely potent serpin inhibitor of ICE (Ki < 7 pM), inhibits ICE activation completely and blocks pIL-1 beta processing and mIL-1 beta secretion by approximately 95%. The results indicate that ICE, in addition to its processing function, facilitates the transport of IL-1 beta across the plasma membrane.


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