Interleukin-6 and other members of the IL-6 cytokine family are defined by their common use of the glycoprotein 130 (gp130). It can be a component of the receptor complex in the form of a homodimer or a heterodimer. IL-6 and IL-11 use a gp130 homodimer for signalization and the other cytokines from this family use a heterodimer, composed of one gp130 subunit and one of the other β-receptors (LIFRβ or OSMRβ). In the scope of our laboratory work, we differentiated skeletal muscle cultures to different degrees and checked the expression of seven members of the IL-6 cytokine family – IL-6, LIF, OSM in CTF-1, CNTF, CLCF-1 in CRLF-1. With that, we investigated which of these were expressed in human skeletal muscle cells and how their expression changed in relation to the degree of differentiation. We also checked the expression of a known differentiation marker MYH2 and showed that the cells really did differentiate. We showed that IL-6, LIF, CTF-1, CNTF, CLCF-1 in CRLF-1 are expressed in skeletal muscle cells, whereby the expression of IL-6, LIF, CLCF-1 and CRLF-1 decreased or tended to decrease with differentiation, Converesely, the expression of CNTF increased, while the expression of CTF-1 first increased and then decreased by the end of differentiaton. Although OSM was expressed in all differentiation stages, its levels were too low for reliable quantification.
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