Figure 4.
C/EBPs are essential for a subset of IL-17-induced genes. A) Real-time PCR analyses for indicated genes with RNAs isolated from WT, C/EBPβ deficient (βKO), C/EBPδ deficient (δKO) and C/EBPβδ doubly deficient (βδKO) MEFs stimulated for 1h or 6h with IL-17, TNFα, IL-17 + TNFα. Data are shown as the mean ± SEM of four independent experiments and fold induction is in reference to unstimulated cells; *, p < 0.05 Student’s t-test. B) Western blot analysis of cell lysate collected from a representative experiment shown in (A) after 2h of IL-17 stimulation to confirm absence or show expression levels of C/EBPβ and C/EBPδ; β-actin served as a loading control.
