Abstract

IL-1 system is involved in the induction and maintenance of chronic inflammation associated with several autoimmune diseases and cancer, mainly due to its capacity to promote the secretion of inflammatory mediators. For this reason, several intracellular and extracellular mechanisms for this system have been fixed during the evolution. In spite of the large description of molecular interactions between IL-1 ligands and receptors, little is known about the relevance and limits of the extracellular regulatory mechanims in different scenarios. To tackle this problem, we developed and calibrated a mathematical model including all the known interactions between IL-1 ligands and IL-1Rs and calibrate it with experimental data of IL-1 binding to different cells. The model predicts that, independently on the IL-1Rs expression, IL-1α has more ability than IL-1β to induce IL-1 signaling, which suggests that both ligands can be equally relevant for the IL-1 related inflammation. On the other hand, at the cell level, IL-1 signaling is mainly controlled by IL-1R1 and IL-1R3 and not by IL-1R2. Moreover, the soluble form of IL-1R1 and IL-1RA have the highest capacity to prevent IL-1α while IL-1R2 and IL-1R1 and IL-1RA have a similar capacity to prevent IL-1β signaling. The soluble IL-1R3 has the lowest capacity to prevent IL-1 signaling and preferentially inhibits cells with low number of IL-1R3. In general, model predictions suggest several ways in which IL-1 controlling system may fail, developing IL-1 related inflammation.

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