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Recombinant Rat IL-2 is a 15.3 kDa protein containing 134 amino acid residues.
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Interleukin 2 (IL-2) is an immuno-modulatory cytokine that is important for the proliferation of activated T cells, differentiation of B cells, natural killer cells, monocytes and macrophages. IL-2 signals through the IL-2 receptor (IL-2R), a heterotrimeric protein complex whose gamma chain is also shared by interleukin 4 (IL-4) and interleukin 7 (IL-7). The expression of the IL-2 gene in mature thymocytes is monoallelic, which represents an unusual regulatory mode for controlling the precise expression of a single gene. The targeted disruption of a gene similar to IL-2 in mice leads to an ulcerative colitis-like disease that suggests an essential role of this gene in the immune response to antigenic stimuli.
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Protein Aliases: H-IL-2; il 2; IL-2; ILN; Interleukin; Interleukin-2; Interleukin2; Involved in regulation of T cell clonal expansion; M-IL-2; T-cell growth factor; T-cell growth factor (TCGF); TCGF
Gene Aliases: Il-2; Il2
UniProt ID: (Rat) P17108
Entrez Gene ID: (Rat) 116562
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