Cloning of the cDNA for human IFN-γ-inducing factor, expression in Escherichia coli, and studies on the biologic activities of the protein

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4274-4279

  Ushio, Shimpei ^a   Namba, Motoshi ^a   Okura, Takanori ^a   Hattori, Kazuko ^a   Nukada, Yoshiyuki ^a   Akita, Kenji ^a   Tanabe, Fujimi ^a   Konishi, Kaori ^a   Micallef, Mark ^a   Fujii, Mitsukiyo ^a   Torigoe, Kakuji ^a   Tanimoto, Tadao ^a   Fukuda, Shigeharu ^a   Ikeda, Masao ^a   Okamura, Haruki ^b   Kurimoto, Masashi ^a  

^a HAYASHIBARA BIOCHEMICAL LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR CLONING; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULOCYTE-MACROPHAGE COLONY-STIMULATING FACTOR; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERLEUKIN-10; INTERLEUKIN-18; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; LIVER; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 15844367093     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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