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granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor; GM-CSF; colony-stimulating factor 2; molgramostin; sargramostim (CSF2, GMCSF)

Function: - cytokine that stimulates growth & differentiation of hematopoietic precursor cells from various lineages, including granulocytes, macrophages, eosinophils & erythrocytes - activation of endothelial cells Structure: - monomer - belongs to the GM-CSF family Compartment: secreted Polymorphism: - variant Ile-117 may be a risk factor for atopic asthma Pharmacology: - available as sargramostim (Leukine, Leucomax)

Specific

Granulocyte Macrophage Csf Parenteral sargramostim [GM-CSF] (Leukine, Prokine, Leucomax)

General

colony-stimulating factor (CSF) glycoprotein

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 144 aa MW = 16 kD COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment MOTIF: signal sequence {1-17} Ser glycosylation site {S22} Ser glycosylation site {S24} Ser glycosylation site {S26} Thr glycosylation site {T27} N-glycosylation site {N44} N-glycosylation site {N54} cysteine residue {C71} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C113} cysteine residue {C105} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C138} cysteine residue {C113} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C71} cysteine residue {C138} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C105} SECRETED-BY: fibroblast macrophage endothelial cell T-cell MISC-INFO: 1/2life 1 HOUR

Database Correlations

OMIM 138960 UniProt P04141 Pfam PF01109 Entrez Gene 1437 Kegg hsa:1437

References

  1. UniProt :accession P04141
  2. Leukine; Note: Clinical information on Leukine http://www.leukine.com/hcp/index.html
  3. SeattleSNPs http://pga.gs.washington.edu/data/csf2/
  4. Henderson B & Blake S Therapeutic potential of cytokine manipulation TIPS 13:145 1992 PMID: 1589908
  5. Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed) Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 679