Involvement of the Arg179 in the active site of human IL‐6

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Three internal-amino acid deletions of amino acids 171-179 of human interleukin 6 (IL-6) were introduced at the cDNA level. While all deletion proteins were biologically inactive, immunoprecipitations with a set of conformation-specific anti-(IL-6) monoclonal antibodies showed that only mutant delta 177-179 does not present major alterations in folding. This finding, together with the observation that delta...

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