Title : On the multimeric nature of natural human interleukin-6.

Pub. Date : 1991 May 25

PMID : 2033081






1 Functional Relationships(s)
Download
Sentence
Compound Name
Protein Name
Organism
1 The 25-kDa O-glycosylated IL-6 (which contains only Ser- or Thr-GalNAc-Gal-NeuNAc and thus should not bind wheat germ or lentil lectins) bound to and was eluted from a wheat germ lectin affinity column by GlcNAc and from a lentil lectin affinity column by methyl-alpha-D-Man suggesting that the 25-kDa IL-6 species formed heteromeric complexes with the N-glycosylated 30-kDa IL-6. Serine interleukin 6 Homo sapiens