Chemokine (C-C Motif) Ligand 16 (CCL16) (Active) protein
Description
Human CCL16, also called HCC-4, liver-expressed chemokine (LEC), and lymphocyte and monocyte chemoattractant (LMC), is a novel CC chemokine recognized by bioinformatics. NCC-4 cDNA encodes a 120 amino acids along with a 23 amino acids signal peptide that is cleaved to generate 97 amino acid protein. HCC4 is vaguely related to other CC chemokines, showing less than 30 % sequence identity. Among CC chemokines, CCL-16 has the largest similarity to HCC-1. 2 potential polyadenylation signals are present on the human HCC-4 gene, and as a result, 2 transcripts containing roughly 1,500 base pairs and 500 base pairs have been detected. HCC-4 is expressed weakly by some lymphocytes, including NK cells, T cells, and some T cell clones. The expression of HCC-4 in monocytes is greatly upregulated in the presence of IL-10. CCL16 shows chemotactic activity for lymphocytes and monocytes rather than to neutrophils. NCC-4 has potent myelosuppressive activity, suppresses proliferation of myeloid progenitor cells. CCL16 demonstrates chemotactic activity for monocytes and thp-1 monocytes, rather than for resting lymphocytes and neutrophils. HCC-4 induces a calcium flux in thp-1 cells that desensitized prior to the expression of rantes Synonyms: C-C motif chemokine 16, Small-inducible cytokine A16, IL-10-inducible chemokine, Chemokine LEC, Monotactin-1, Chemokine CC-4, Lymphocyte and monocyte chemoattractant, CCL-16, HCC-4, HCC4, NCC4, NCC-4, Liver Expressed Chemokine, LMC, LCC-1, LCC1, MTN-1, MTN1, SCYL4, ckB12, SCYA16, LEC, ILINCK, MGC117051.