Anti-Interleukin-3 IL3 Antibody Picoband®

The gene IL-3 encodes interleukin 3, a hematopoietic colony-stimulating factor (CSF) that is capable of supporting the proliferation of a broad range of hematopoietic cell types. Interleukin-3 (IL-3), a protein of 140 amino acids, is chemically synthesized by means of an automated peptide synthesizer and is shown to have the biological activities attributed to native IL-3. The cDNA sequence for murine interleukin-3, one of the colony stimulating factors that regulate haematopoiesis, codes for a polypeptide of 166 amino acids including a putative signal peptide. The mouse IL 3 gene is located on chromosome 11. The human gene encoding IL 3 is tandemly arrayed on the long arm of chromosome 5.5 The standard product used in this kit is recombinant human IL-3, consisting of 133 amino acids with the molecular mass of 15KDa.

Interleukin-3; IL-3; Hematopoietic growth factor; Mast cell growth factor; MCGF; Multipotential colony-stimulating factor; P-cell-stimulating factor; IL3

Granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factors are cytokines that act in hematopoiesis by controlling the production, differentiation, and function of 2 related white cell populations of the blood, the granulocytes and the monocytes-macrophages.

1. Yang YC, Ciarletta AB, Temple PA, Chung MP, Kovacic S, Witek-Giannotti JS, Leary AC, Kriz R, Donahue RE, Wong GG (October 1986) . Human IL-3 (multi-CSF) : identification by expression cloning of a novel hematopoietic growth factor related to murine IL-3. Cell 47 (1) : 3–10. 2. Webb, G. C., Lee, J. S., Campbell, H. D., Young, I. G. The genes for interleukins 3 and 5 map to the same locus on mouse chromosome 11. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 50: 107-110, 1989.

Store at -20°C for one year from date of receipt. After reconstitution, at 4°C for one month. It can also be aliquotted and stored frozen at -20°C for six months. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.