Description
Rhesus Macaque CCL11 is belonging to the CC chemokine family. It is encoded by the gene CCL11. CCL11 was first purified from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of guinea pigs. It was a strong and specific eosinophil chemoattractant in vitro. It can directly chemotactic for eosinophils, but not for monocytes or neutrophils. Rhesus macaque CCL11 is approximately 90 % identical at the amino acid level to human CCL11. In addition, CCL11 also shows about 60 % amino acid sequence identity to monkey MCP-1. CCR3 has been identified to be a specific CCL11 receptor