IL-4 Products

Description

IL-4 (Interleukin 4, B cell stimulatory factor) is a pleiotropic cytokine produced by activated T cells, mast cells and basophils. IL-4 has many different functions including promoting proliferation and differentiation of immunologically competent cells. One of its main functions is regulating differentiation of naive CD4+ T cells into helper Th2 cells, the other main function is regulating B cells IgE and IgG1 production. Human IL-4 shows 50% homology with mouse IL-4, but its activities are species-specific and human IL-4 shows no activity on murine and rat cells.

Bioinformatics

Entrez	16189 Mouse 280824 Bovine 287287 Rat 3565 Human
Uniprot	AF 395008 Human NP_000580 Human NP000580 Human P05112 Human P05112 Human P05112.1 Human P07750 Mouse P30367 Bovine
Product By Gene ID	3565
Alternate Names	B cell growth factor 1 B-cell stimulatory factor 1 BCGF1 BCGF-1 binetrakin Binetrakin BSF1 BSF-1 IL-4B_cell stimulatory factor 1 interleukin 4 interleukin-4 Lymphocyte stimulatory factor 1 MGC79402 Pitrakinra pitrakinra

Research Areas for IL-4

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Adaptive Immunity
Asthma
Biologically Active Proteins
Cancer
Cytokine Research
Immunology
Innate Immunity

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