Protein Description
Interleukin-2 complexed with IL2 alpha Receptor
Background
Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is an immunoregulatory cytokine that binds sequentially to the alpha (IL-2Ralpha), beta (IL-2Rbeta), and common gamma chain (gammac) receptor subunits.
Reference
Rickert, M., Wang, X., Boulanger, M.J., Goriatcheva, N., Garcia, K.C. (2005) The structure of interleukin-2 complexed with its alpha receptor. Science 308: 1477-1480