Recombinant Rat C10/CCL6 protein

Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 6 (CCL6), encoded by the gene CCL6, is a small cytokine belonging to the CC chemokine family that has only been identified in rodents. It signals primarily through the CCR1 receptor. CCL6 is chemotactic for B cells, CD4+ T cells, monocytes and NK cells and also exhibits powerful suppressive activity on colony formation by different lineages of hematopoietic progenitors. It contains the four highly conserved cysteine residues present in CC chemokines. The completed rat CCL6 sequence is 115 amino acids (a.a.) containing 21 a.a. signal peptide. It has about 78 % identity with mouse homologue (116 a.a.).