Charged residues dominate a unique interlocking topography in the heterodimeric cytokine interleukin-12.
Yoon, C., Johnston, S.C., Tang, J., Stahl, M., Tobin, J.F., Somers, W.S.(2000) EMBO J. 19: 3530-3541
- PubMed: 10899108 
- DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.14.3530
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:  
- PubMed Abstract: 
Human interleukin-12 (IL-12, p70) is an early pro-inflammatory cytokine, comprising two disulfide-linked subunits, p35 and p40. We solved the crystal structures of monomeric human p40 at 2.5 A and the human p70 complex at 2.8 A resolution, which reve ...