Cloning and expression of an alternatively spliced mRNA encoding a soluble form of the human interleukin‐6 signal transducer gp1301

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The membrane-bound gp130 glycoprotein acts as an affinity converting and signal transducing receptor (R) for interleukin-6 and several other cytokines. In this work, we RT-PCR amplified gp130 cDNA using primers flanking the sequence encoding the transmembrane domain of gp130. We observed in blood mononuclear cells, in addition to the expected 333-bp length fragment, a second major band of 418 bp. Sequencing of...

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