IL-6 is a cytokine with a wide variety of biological functions: it plays an essential role in the final differentiation of b-cells into ig-secreting cells, it induces myeloma and plasmacytoma growth, it induces nerve cells differentiation, in hepatocytes it induces acute phase reactants.
Interleukin-6 Human Recombinant produced in CHO is a single, glycosylated polypeptide chain containing 185 amino acids and migrates at 22 kDa as a glycosilated protein on SDS-PAGE.
The IL6 is purified by proprietary chromatographic techniques.