背景介绍 IL-31 is a recently discovered helical cytokine, belonging to the gp130/IL-6 cytokine family.The receptors for IL- 6 family are type I receptors, and they share a number of common structural motifs, such as the cytokine-binding domain with two pairs of conserved cysteine residues and a WSXWS sequence motif in the extracellular domain. IL-31 is expressed preferentially by activated Th2 CD4+ T cells, signaling through a heterodimeric receptor complex composed of IL-31RA and OSMR. Recent studies in both humans and mice have suggested a link between IL- 31/IL-31R expression and skin inflammation although the functional significance of endogenous IL-31/IL-31R interactions in influencing innate and adaptive immune responses remains unknown. 产品介绍 Recombinant Interleukin-31 is a disulfide-linked monomer protein consisting of 142 amino acid residues, and migrates as an approximately 18 kDa protein under non-reducing and reducing conditions in SDS-PAGE. Optimized DNA sequence encoding Human Interleukin-31 mature chain was expressed in E. coli.