Figure 4.
The biological activity of four recombinant interleukin-32 (rIL-32) isoforms in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). Human PBMC were stimulated with four different rIL-32 isoforms (40 ng/ml) in the presence of polymyxin B (100 U/ml) for 18 hr, after which the cell culture supernatant was harvested for cytokine measurement. (a) IL-6 and (b) tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), were measured by enhanced chemiluminescence. As shown in the second lane, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced a large amount of cytokine in both IL-6 and TNF-α, whereas polymyxin B (100 U/ml) in the third lane, abolished LPS activity.