Description
Macrophage inflammatory protein 3 alpha (MIP-3 alpha), also known as LARC (liver and activation-regulated chemokine) and as exodus-1, is one of many novel CC chemokines identified through bioinformatics. MIP-3 alpha is distantly related to other CC chemokines (20 - 28% amino acid sequence identity). Rat MIP-3 alpha shares approximately 70% and 61% amino acid sequence identity with mouse and human MIP-3 alpha, respectively