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I5896

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Interleukin-7 human

≥98% (SDS-PAGE), recombinant, expressed in E. coli, lyophilized powder, suitable for cell culture

Synonym(s):

IL-7

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MDL number:
UNSPSC Code:
12352202
NACRES:
NA.32

biological source

human

Quality Level

recombinant

expressed in E. coli

assay

≥98% (SDS-PAGE)

form

lyophilized powder

potency

≤0.500 ng/mL EC50

mol wt

25 kDa

packaging

pkg of 5 μg

storage condition

avoid repeated freeze/thaw cycles

technique(s)

cell culture | mammalian: suitable

impurities

endotoxin, tested

color

white

solubility

water: soluble 0.005-0.010 mL

UniProt accession no.

storage temp.

−20°C

Gene Information

human ... IL7(3574)

General description

The interleukin-7 human (IL-7) gene is mapped to human chromosome 8q21.13. It is a non-hematopoietic cell-derived cytokine. IL-7 is majorly produced by the fibroblastic stromal cells, dendritic cells, thymus epithelial cells and skin keratinocytes. Structurally, IL-7 takes up an up-up-down-down 4-helix bundle topology and has two crossover loops.

Biochem/physiol Actions

IL-7 helix A is crucial for its interaction with the interleukin-7 human receptor (IL-7Rα). It is reported to enhance immunity during viral infections and may be useful in cancer immunotherapy. Mutation in the IL-7 gene is implicated in CD4+ T-cell lymphopenia.
Interleukin-7 is a lymphoid cell growth factor which affects pre-B, pro-B and early T cells. It was first isolated by Namen in 1988. IL-7 has a number of known activities. It supports the growth of early B cells from long-term lymphoid bone marrow cultures. It is mitogenic for thymocytes and co-mitogenic with PHA and Con A. IL-7 also stimulates the proliferation of CD4/CD8 cells. The proliferative response of thymocytes to IL-7 is not affected by antibodies to the T cell growth factors such as IL-2, IL-4, and IL-6. Mature T cells respond to IL-7 and Con A, but not to IL-7 alone. Antibodies against IL-2 affect its activity, suggesting that it functions through IL-2 production. Human natural IL-7 is 25 kDa glycoprotein that has 6 cysteine residues which are important for biological activity. Human and mouse IL-7 have 60% amino acid sequence homology.
Lymphoid cell growth factor which affects pre-B, pro-B and early T cells; supports the growth of early B cells and is mitogenic for thymocytes and co-mitogenic with PHA and Con A; stimulates the proliferation of CD4/CD8 cells.

Physical form

Lyophilized from a 0.2 μm filtered solution in 10 mM acetic acid containing 250 μg bovine serum albumin.

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk_germany

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Eyeshields, Gloves, type N95 (US)


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Jianbao Gao et al.
International journal of molecular sciences, 16(5), 10267-10280 (2015-05-09)
Interleukin-7 (IL-7) is a non-hematopoietic cell-derived cytokine with a central role in the adaptive immune system. It promotes lymphocyte development in the thymus and maintains survival of naive and memory T cell homeostasis in the periphery. Moreover, it is important
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Edwin Leeansyah et al.
PLoS pathogens, 11(8), e1005072-e1005072 (2015-08-22)
Mucosa-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells represent a large innate-like evolutionarily conserved antimicrobial T-cell subset in humans. MAIT cells recognize microbial riboflavin metabolites from a range of microbes presented by MR1 molecules. MAIT cells are impaired in several chronic diseases including
Fathollah Kalantar et al.
Iranian journal of immunology : IJI, 11(1), 1-12 (2014-03-19)
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M Cecilia Albareda et al.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 194(8), 3883-3889 (2015-03-15)
We have previously demonstrated that immune responses in subjects with chronic Trypanosoma cruzi infection display features common to other persistent infections with signs of T cell exhaustion. Alterations in cytokine receptor signal transduction have emerged as one of the cell-intrinsic

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