Interleukin-36 beta also known as interleukin-1 family member 8 (IL1F8) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IL36Bgene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the interleukin 1cytokine family. Protein structure modeling indicated that this cytokine may contain a 12-stranded beta-trefoil structure that is conserved between IL1A (IL-A alpha) and IL1B (IL-1 beta). This gene and eight other interleukin 1 family genes form a cytokine gene cluster on chromosome 2. Two alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been reported.
Nicklin MJ, Weith A, Duff GW (1994). "A physical map of the region encompassing the human interleukin-1 alpha, interleukin-1 beta, and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist genes". Genomics. 19 (2): 382–4. doi:10.1006/geno.1994.1076. PMID8188271.
Nothwang HG, Strahm B, Denich D, etal. (1997). "Molecular cloning of the interleukin-1 gene cluster: construction of an integrated YAC/PAC contig and a partial transcriptional map in the region of chromosome 2q13". Genomics. 41 (3): 370–8. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.4654. PMID9169134.
Busfield SJ, Comrack CA, Yu G, etal. (2000). "Identification and gene organization of three novel members of the IL-1 family on human chromosome 2". Genomics. 66 (2): 213–6. doi:10.1006/geno.2000.6184. PMID10860666.
Pan G, Risser P, Mao W, etal. (2001). "IL-1H, an interleukin 1-related protein that binds IL-18 receptor/IL-1Rrp". Cytokine. 13 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1006/cyto.2000.0799. PMID11145836.
Debets R, Timans JC, Homey B, etal. (2001). "Two novel IL-1 family members, IL-1 delta and IL-1 epsilon, function as an antagonist and agonist of NF-kappa B activation through the orphan IL-1 receptor-related protein 2". J. Immunol. 167 (3): 1440–6. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.167.3.1440. PMID11466363. S2CID85986577.
Nicklin MJ, Barton JL, Nguyen M, etal. (2002). "A sequence-based map of the nine genes of the human interleukin-1 cluster". Genomics. 79 (5): 718–25. doi:10.1006/geno.2002.6751. PMID11991722.