The chemokine network. I. How the genomic organization of chemokines contains clues for deciphering their functional complexity

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Chemokines are a superfamily of small structurally related cytokines that have evolved to form a complex network of proteins that typically regulate leucocyte traffic but also carry very diverse sets of immune and non-immune functions. Two general features of cytokines, redundancy and promiscuity, are particularly prominent in chemokines. In part, these properties result from repeated processes of gene...

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