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Abstract
Uromodulin is an 85-kDa immunosuppressive glycoprotein originally isolated from human pregnancy urine. It exhibits immunosuppressive activity in vitro at concentrations between 10(-9) and 10(-11) M. Recent data demonstrate that uromodulin is able to specifically inhibit in vitro assays dependent upon interleukin 1 (IL-1). We now present evidence that uromodulin is a high affinity ligand for recombinant murine IL-1 alpha. Since uromodulin has been purified to homogeneity, this should allow extensive further characterization of the mechanism of action of both uromodulin and IL-1.Entities:
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Year: 1986 PMID: 3489714
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biol Chem ISSN: 0021-9258 Impact factor: 5.157