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IL-13Rα2 Membrane and Soluble Isoforms Differ in Humans and Mice
1 Dec 2009
Abstract excerpt
Although mice have nanogram per milliliter serum levels of soluble (s) IL-13Ralpha2, humans lack sIL-13Ralpha2 in serum. Our data provide a mechanism for this biological divergence. In mice, discrete transcripts encoding soluble and membrane forms of IL-13Ralpha2 are generated by alternative splicing. We used small interfering RNA to specifically deplete the transcript encoding membrane (mem) IL-13Ralpha2...
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