Summary

This is a crystal structure of human Interleukin-2 (IL-2) as published by Arkin et al. IL-2 has a number of functions from promoting T cell maturation to playing a role in the development of immunological memory. I accessed the data from the Protein Data Bank (PDB: 1M47) and rendered it using Pymol.

For the original data, please see: Arkin, M.A., Randal, M., DeLano, W.L., Hyde, J., Luong, T.N., Oslob, J.D., Raphael, D.R., Taylor, L., Wang, J., Wells, J.A., McDowell, R.S., Wells, J.A., Braisted, A.C. Binding of small molecules to an adaptive protein-protein interface Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA v100 pp.1603-1608 , 2003 (Having checked this paper, this image was not published therein)

Description IL2 Crystal Structure.png	Crystal structure of IL-2 as published in the Protein Data Bank (PDB: 1M47)
Date	12 October 2006
Source	Created from PDB 1M47 and rendered by me using Pymol
Author	Ramin Herati
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