@article{324cdb2b02e647ed93fa14823786f4d4,
title = "The structural basis for receptor recognition of human interleukin-18",
abstract = "Interleukin (IL)-18 is a proinflammatory cytokine that belongs to the IL-1 family and plays an important role in inflammation. The uncontrolled release of this cytokine is associated with severe chronic inflammatory disease. IL-18 forms a signalling complex with the IL-18 receptor α (Rα) and β (Rβ) chains at the plasma membrane, which induces multiple inflammatory cytokines. Here, we present a crystal structure of human IL-18 bound to the two receptor extracellular domains. Generally, the receptors' recognition mode for IL-18 is similar to IL-1β; however, certain notable differences were observed. The architecture of the IL-18 receptor second domain (D2) is unique among the other IL-1R family members, which presumably distinguishes them from the IL-1 receptors that exhibit a more promiscuous ligand recognition mode. The structures and associated biochemical and cellular data should aid in developing novel drugs to neutralize IL-18 activity.",
author = "Naotaka Tsutsumi and Takeshi Kimura and Kyohei Arita and Mariko Ariyoshi and Hidenori Ohnishi and Takahiro Yamamoto and Xiaobing Zuo and Katsumi Maenaka and Park, {Enoch Y.} and Naomi Kondo and Masahiro Shirakawa and Hidehito Tochio and Zenichiro Kato",
note = "Funding Information: X-ray data collection was supported by SPring-8 (Harima, Japan), Photon Factory (Tsukuba, Japan), Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois, USA, supported by DE-AC02-06CH11357) and Platform for Drug Discovery, Informatics, and Structural Life Science (Japan). We thank T. Tsunaka (Kyoto University) for the use of his beam time of BL44XU at SPring-8. We also thank T. Fukao, N. Kawamoto, K. Tsuji, M. Yamamoto, S. Ninomiya, T. Yano and K. Kasahara (Gifu University) for their scientific advice or technical help. Affymetrix, Inc. provided discontinued detergents to us. SAXS graphics were prepared using the UCSF Chimera package, which developed by the group at the University of California. (San Francisco, USA, supported by NIGMS P41-GM103311). This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 22370038 to H.T., Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows to N.T., Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research on Intractable Diseases from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to H.O., Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare to Z.K., Science Research Grant from Eishukai to Z.K, and MEXT KAKENHI Grant Number 21790979 to T.K. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1038/ncomms6340",
language = "English",
volume = "5",
journal = "Nature Communications",
issn = "2041-1723",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
}