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Inflammatory Cytokine Quantification

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All chemicals used in the present study were purchased from Sigma (St. Louis, MO), unless otherwise noted. Ultrapure LPS, ATP, Caspase-1 inhibitor Ac-YVAD-cmk were purchased from Invivogen (San Diego, CA). Murine or human IL-1β, IL-1α and IL-18 from PeproTech (Rocky Hill, NJ); mouse IL1Ra from Novus Biotech, and human IL-1Ra from PeproTech. Human or murine IL-1β ELISA kits were from R&D system (Minneapolis, MN) or eBioscience (San Diego, California); Antibodies to human IL-1β, human caspase 1, mouse IL-1β and mouse caspase 1 were from R&D Systems or Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA).
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Inflammasome Activation in Human Cells

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Human IL-1α, IL-1β, and IFNγ were purchased from Peprotech and used at 10 ng/ml unless indicated otherwise. IL-1α and IL-1β were used interchangeably with the same results. Human IL-1ra was purchased from Peprotech and was used at 1 µg/ml. Poly IC was purchased from Sigma and used at 10 µg/ml. LPS from Escherichia coli strain 0111:B4 was purchased from Sigma and was used at 100 ng/ml. Cells were treated for 6 h for Q-PCR and 24 h for ELISA, unless indicated otherwise. Cell treatment with inflammasome activators was performed following the published protocols [41] (link)–[43] (link). ATP (adenosine 5′-triphosphate disodium salt) was purchased from Sigma and was used at 5 mM. ATP was added to cultures 30 min before cell harvest. Nigericin sodium salt was purchased from Sigma and was used at 20 µM. Nigericin was added to culture 1 h before cell harvest. Lactacystin was purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology and was added to culture 10 min prior to cell stimulation.
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Evaluating IL-1RA and Antibody Therapy in Cell-Based Assays

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40pg/uL human IL-1RA (PeproTech, US) was pre-incubated with 5ng/uL antibody (G4–21 or isotype control. IL-1RA and antibody were applied to HEK-Blue IL-1β cells (InvivoGen, US) for 2 hours and stimulated with 2pg/uL human IL-1β (PeproTech, US) for 36 hours at 37°C. Alternatively, cells were treated with 8–10 nM IL-1RA and commercial monoclonal (mAbs) or polyclonal antibodies (pAbs) at 40–2000nM, or with patient plasma at 1:10 and 1:20 dilutions, and subsequently stimulated with 0.1–1 nM IL-1β for 24 hours. Cells were treated with antibodies in the presence of IL-1α and IL-1RA, IL-1RA alone, or media, and supernatants assayed using the QUANTI-Blue assay (InvivoGen, hkb-il1b, US).
Human A549 lung epithelial cells and MRC-5 lung fibroblasts (ATCC, US) were treated with 10nM IL-1RA and patient plasma and stimulated with 0.5nM human IL-1α (PeproTech, US) for 24 hours at 37°C. RNA was isolated, cDNA prepared, and samples analyzed using TaqMan FAM-conjugated primer sets. Supernatants were collected and assayed for human IL-6 (R&D, US), IL-8 (R&D, US), and G-CSF (R&D, US) via ELISA.
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Antibody and Cytokine Assay Protocol

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Antibodies used for Western blotting, immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence and fluorescent cell sorting are described in detail in Supplemental Table 1. The neutralizing antibody for mouse IL-13 (mabg-mil13) was from InvivoGen (San Diego, CA), and its matching isotype antibody (mouse IgG1) was from R&D Systems. Recombinant murine EGF, murine CCL2, human IL-1ra, murine IL-1β, murine IL-4, murine IL-10 and murine IL-13 were purchased from PeproTech (Rocky Hill, NJ). Hoechst 33342 was from Invitrogen. DAPI was from Sigma-Aldrich, and Matrigel was from BD Biosciences.
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