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SUBMITTER: Lu T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1810327 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lu Tao T Tian Liping L Han Yulong Y Vogelbaum Michael M Stark George R GR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070305 11
Some tumor cell lines secrete high concentrations of TGFbeta or IL-1. Similarly high concentrations of each of these cytokines cross-activate the other pathway: TGFbeta activates NFkappaB, and IL-1beta activates Smads. The IL-1 signaling components IRAK, MyD88, TRAF6, and TAK1 are all required for cross-activation of NFkappaB by TGFbeta. Knockdown experiments revealed that both TGFbeta receptor subunits are required for IL-1beta to activate Smads, and the IL-1 receptor is required for TGFbeta to ...[more]