Description
Recombinant Interleukin-12p35 comprises a 197 amino acid fragment (57-253) corresponding to the mature Interleukin-12p35 chain protein and is expressed in E. coli with an amino-terminal hexahistidine tag.
Active IL-12 is a p70 disulfide-linked dimer composed of p35 and p40 subunits. The protein is a pleiotropic cytokine produced primarily by antigen presenting cells and has multiple effects on T lymphocytes and natural killer cells in terms of stimulating cytotoxicity, proliferation, production of other cytokines and Th1 subset differentiation