IL1B and neoplasm: To assess effects of tumor cell-associated IL-1β on tumorigenicity patterns, we transfected violent fibrosarcoma cells with constructs bearing the cDNAs of the mature form of IL-1β or the mature form of IL-1β ligated to a signal sequence (ssIL-1β), to induce potent secretion of IL-1β through the endoplasmic reticulum-Golgi pathway (80, 81).