CXCL5   Click here for help

GtoPdb Ligand ID: 829

Synonyms: ENA-78
Immunopharmacology Ligand
Comment: Bioactive CXCL5 is 78 aa in length, cleaved form a 114 aa presursor peptide. It can be N-terminally cleaved by cathepsin G and chymotrypsin to CXCL5-74 and CXCL5-70.
Species: Human
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References
1. Ahuja SK, Murphy PM. (1996)
The CXC chemokines growth-regulated oncogene (GRO) alpha, GRObeta, GROgamma, neutrophil-activating peptide-2, and epithelial cell-derived neutrophil-activating peptide-78 are potent agonists for the type B, but not the type A, human interleukin-8 receptor.
J Biol Chem, 271 (34): 20545-50. [PMID:8702798]