Orphan cytokine reveals IL-17 family secret

Christopher J Haines; Daniel J Cua

doi:10.1016/j.immuni.2011.10.008

Orphan cytokine reveals IL-17 family secret

Immunity. 2011 Oct 28;35(4):498-500. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.10.008.

Authors

Christopher J Haines¹, Daniel J Cua

Affiliation

¹ Merck Research Laboratories, 901 California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

PMID: 22035844
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2011.10.008

Abstract

The biology of interleukin-17C (IL-17C) has remained largely a mystery for more than a decade. Chang et al. (2011), in this issue of Immunity, and two other reports (Song et al., 2011; Ramirez-Carrozzi et al., 2011) demonstrate that IL-17C has broad functions in a variety of tissues.

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