A new class of membrane-bound chemokine with a CX3C motif.
Chemokines direct the trafficking of white blood cells in immune surveillance, playing a key role in inflammatory and infectious diseases such as AIDS. All chemokines studied so far are secreted proteins of relative molecular mass approximately 7K-15K and fall into three families that are defined by...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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1997
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