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A dominant negative inhibitor indicates that monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 functions as a dimer.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Sept 1995
Zhang Y, Rollins B J
Abstract excerpt
Monocyte chemoattractant protein 1 (MCP-1) is a member of the chemokine family of proinflammatory cytokines, all of which share a high degree of amino acid sequence similarity. Aberrant expression of chemokines occurs in a variety of diseases that have an inflammatory component, such as atherosclerosis. Although structural analyses indicate that chemokines form homodimers, there is controversy about whether...
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