title: Nucleotide sequence of bovine interleukin-6 cDNA.
abstract: We report the cloning of bovine interleukin-6 (IL-6) cDNA. The clone was isolated from a bovine-leukemia virus (BLV)-induced B cell-lymphosarcoma cDNA library cloned in the bacteriophage lambda gt11. The cDNA encodes a full length IL-6 protein made of 208 amino acids with 65, 53, 42 and 42% homology to published sequences of porcine, human, mouse and rat IL-6, respectively. The significance of IL-6 expression in a BLV-induced tumor is briefly discussed.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Rhode-St-Genèse, Belgium.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Droogmans
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cludts
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cleuter
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kettmann
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burny
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002417:Cattle; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004247:DNA; D015698:Genomic Library; D006801:Humans; D015850:Interleukin-6 / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D015850:Interleukin-6; D004247:DNA