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J. Exp. Med.,
Volume 188, Number 10, November 16, 1998 1955-1965
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From the * Institute for Genetics and the The pleiotrophic but overlapping functions of the cytokine family that includes interleukin
(IL)-6, IL-11, leukemia inhibitory factor, oncostatin M, ciliary neurotrophic factor, and cardiotrophin 1 are mediated by the cytokine receptor subunit gp130 as the common signal transducer. Although mice lacking individual members of this family display only mild phenotypes,
animals lacking gp130 are not viable. To assess the collective role of this cytokine family, we
inducibly inactivated gp130 via Cre-loxP-mediated recombination in vivo. Such conditional
mutant mice exhibited neurological, cardiac, hematopoietic, immunological, hepatic, and pulmonary defects, demonstrating the widespread importance of gp130-dependent cytokines.
Institute for Anatomy I, University of Cologne, D-50931
Cologne, Germany; the § Institute for Experimental Immunology, University of Zürich, CH-8093
Zürich, Switzerland; the
Department of Molecular Immunology, Research Institute for Microbial
Diseases, and the ¶ Department of Medicine III, Medical School, Osaka University, Osaka 565, Japan; and the ** Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical
and Dental University, Tokyo 101, Japan
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