Interleukin-1 receptor 2 keeps the lid on interleukin-1α.

Immunity

Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7720, USA.

Published: February 2013

The molecular mechanisms that regulate functional activation of IL-1α remain elusive. In this issue of Immunity, Zheng et al. (2013) describe a molecular system implicating interleukin-1 receptor-2 (IL-1R2) as a principal cytosolic factor that controls functional IL-1α activation during necrosis.

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