Ronnie Coleman/ Interleukins

huge-inc · Apr 13, 2005

Could someone give a laymans term of what Interleukins is. Was on another board ,and someone was at R/C Mr O 7x's seminear.....Interleukins was mentioned ??

TooPowerful4u · Apr 13, 2005

Interlueken you say? I dont even wanna know lol. So many people lookin for fast results. Coleman probably takes it becuase he took his body so far, its the only thing left thatl produce results. None of us really need it with the acception of a few. Id rather rely on training and diet anyway rather than drugs, i hate them.

Massive G · Apr 13, 2005

Interleukin 15 most of the time they are referring to 15.
It's a cytokine and nothing special.
Seriously if a secret drug was out there there'd be 50 ronni colemans per local gym.
Read for yerself here:
"Overview
Interleukin 15 (IL-15) is a novel cytokine that shares many biological properties with, but lacks amino acid sequence homology to, IL-2. IL-15 was originally identified in media conditioned by a monkey kidney eipthelial cell line (CVI/EBNA) based on its mitogenic activity on the murine T cell line, CTLL-2 (1). IL-15 was also independently discovered as a cytokine produced by a human adult T cell leukemia cell line (HuT-102) that stimulated T cell proliferation and was designated IL-T (2).

Fig. 1. A structural comparison between the IL-15R alpha and the IL-2R alpha (adapted from Giri, J.G. et al. (1995) EMBO J. 14:3654). Disulfide bridges characteristic of the sushi domain are shown.

Structural Information
Human, simian and mouse IL-15 cDNA, as well as human and mouse IL-15 genomic clones, have been isolated and characterized (1, 3, 4). The IL-15 cDNA clones from all three species encode a 162 amino acid (aa) residue precursor protein containing a 48 aa residue leader that is cleaved to generate the 114 aa residue mature IL-15. Human IL-15 shares approximately 97% and 73% sequence identity with simian and mouse IL-15, respectively. Both human and simian IL-15 are active on mouse cells. Although the structure of IL-15 has not been determined, it is predicted to be similar to IL-2 and other members of the four-helix bundle cytokine family (3, 5).

Receptor
High-affinity cell surface receptors for IL-15 have been detected on a variety of T cells and B cells, as well as non-lymphoid cells (7, 8). It has been demonstrated that the beta and the gamma common chain subunits of the IL-2 high-affinity receptor complex are also required for IL-15 signal transduction and efficient internalization (8). Recently, a novel mouse IL-15-specific binding protein (IL-15R alpha) that is structurally related to the alpha subunit of the IL-2 high-affinity receptor has been cloned and characterized (8). IL-15R alpha shares structural similarities with the IL-2R alpha and both proteins contain the short consensus "sushi domain" repeats. Whereas both human and simian IL-15 can bind to a complex of the human beta and gamma common chain subunits in the absence of the mouse IL-15R alpha subunit, simian IL-15 is not capable of binding to and transducing IL-15 signals through the mouse beta and gamma common chain complex alone. Soluble human IL-2R beta appears to bind human IL-15 with sufficiently high affinity such that it is an excellent IL-15 antagonist (9).

Biological Effects
IL-15 mRNAs have been detected in a number of human tissues and cell types, including heart, lung, liver, placenta, skeletal muscle, adherent peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and epithelial and fibroblast cell lines. However, IL-15 mRNA is not detectable in activated peripheral blood T cells that contain high levels of IL-2 mRNA (1). The IL-15 mRNA from normal cells has been shown to contain 10 upstream AUGs that attenuate IL-15 mRNA translation (4). Thus, in spite of the high levels of IL-15 mRNA present in adherent peripheral blood mononuclear cells, IL-15 protein is not detectable in the culture supernatant using a sensitive ELISA (6).

IL-15 has biological activities similar to IL-2 and has been shown to stimulate the growth of natural killer cells, activated peripheral blood T lymphocytes (1, 7, 8), tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) (10), and B cells (11). In addition, IL-15 has also been shown to be a chemoattractant for human blood T lymphocytes (12) and to be able to induce lymphokine-activated killer (LAK) activity in NK cells as well as to be able to induce the generation of cytolytic effector cells. It is likely that additional, as yet unidentified, functions for IL-15 will be discovered in the future.

Clinical Interest
By virtue of its activity as a stimulator of T cells, NK cells, LAK cells, and TILs, IL-2 is currently in clinical trials testing its potential use in treatments for cancer and for viral infections. Because of its similar biological activities, IL-15 should have similar therapeutic potential."