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. 2019 Jun 6;10:1285. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.01285

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Pro-IL-1β degradation is induced by the autophagy inhibitors chloroquine and bafilomycin A, and by the proteasome activator betulinic acid. (A) Chloroquine selectively attenuates IL-1β release from cardiac fibroblasts. The cells were incubated with LPS and/or 20 μM chloroquine phosphate as indicated for 18 h, then activated with 3 mM ATP for 60 min. IL-1β, TNF, MIP-2, and IL-6 were quantified in the conditioned media (n = 3). (B,C) Cardiac fibroblasts were incubated with LPS for 18 h with or without 20 μM chloroquine phosphate and pro-IL-1β quantified with western blot (n = 3). (D) Pro-IL-1β mRNA expression was quantified with qPCR (n = 3). (E,F) Cardiac fibroblasts were incubated with LPS for 20 h with or without 10% FCS or 20 μM chloroquine phosphate as indicated. The amount of total ubiquitinated protein was quantified with western blot (n = 4). (G,H) Cardiac fibroblasts were incubated with 10% FCS with or without 10 ng/mL LPS and/or 100 nM bafilomycin A1 for 20 h. Pro-IL-1β was quantified with western blot. (I,J) Cardiac fibroblasts were incubated with 10% FCS with or without 10 ng/mL LPS and/or 20 μM betulinic acid as indicated for 20 h. Pro-IL-1β was quantified with western blot. All columns are mean with SEM. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 (paired student t-test).