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Designing a Western blot for Interleukin-15? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
Open the IL15 Western Blot Guide1 Citations
Facts about Interleukin-15.
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| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | IL15 |
| Uniprot: | P40933 |
| Entrez: | 3600 |

| Belongs to: |
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| IL-15/IL-21 family |

IL15; IL-15; IL-15MGC9721; interleukin 15; interleukin-15
Mass (kDA):
18.086 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 4q31.21 |
| Sequence: | 4; NC_000004.12 (141636583..141733987) |
Most abundant in placenta and skeletal muscle. It is also detected in the heart, lung, liver and kidney. IL15- S21AA is preferentially expressed in tissues such as testis and thymus.
[Isoform IL15-S48AA]: Secreted.; [Isoform IL15-S21AA]: Cytoplasm. Nucleus. IL15-S21AA is not secreted, but rather is stored intracellularly, appearing in the nucleus and cytoplasmic components.





PMID: 8178155 by Grabstein K.H., et al. Cloning of a T cell growth factor that interacts with the beta chain of the interleukin-2 receptor.
PMID: 8932977 by Krause H., et al. Genomic sequence and chromosomal location of the human interleukin-15 gene (IL15).
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