Identification of a truncated form of the CC chemokine CKβ-8 demonstrating greatly enhanced biological activity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 6273-6279

  Macphee, Colin H ^a   Appelbaum, Edward R ^b   Johanson, Kyung ^b   Moores, Kitty E ^a   Imburgia, Christina S ^b   Fornwald, Jim ^b   Berkhout, Theo ^a   Brawner, Mary ^b   Groot, Pieter H E ^a   O'Donnell, Kevin ^b   O'Shannessy, Daniel ^b   Scott, Gil ^b   White, John R ^b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b SmithKline Beecham ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA CHEMOKINE;

ARTICLE; BACULOVIRUS; BONE MARROW CELL; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; DESENSITIZATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONOCYTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RECEPTOR BINDING; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CALCIUM; CHEMOKINES, CC; CHEMOTACTIC FACTORS, EOSINOPHIL; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; EOSINOPHILS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOCYTE CHEMOATTRACTANT PROTEINS; MONOCYTES; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0032402290     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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