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J. Exp. Med., Volume 188, Number 10, November 16, 1998 1955-1965

Postnatally Induced Inactivation of gp130 in Mice Results in Neurological, Cardiac, Hematopoietic, Immunological, Hepatic, and Pulmonary Defects

By Ulrich A.K. Betz,* Wilhelm Bloch,Dagger Maries van den Broek,§ Kanji Yoshida,parallel Tetsuya Taga,** Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Klaus Addicks,Dagger Klaus Rajewsky,* and Werner Müller*

From the * Institute for Genetics and the Dagger  Institute for Anatomy I, University of Cologne, D-50931 Cologne, Germany; the § Institute for Experimental Immunology, University of Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland; the parallel  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

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.

Key words: gene targetingconditional gene targetingCre/loxP technologygp130-dependent cytokinesgp130


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