April - June 2007 - Kasetsart University
April - June 2007 - Kasetsart University
April - June 2007 - Kasetsart University
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DISCUSSION<br />
The ability to produce and purify large<br />
quantities of biologically active interleukin-2 has<br />
been made possible by the use of recombinant<br />
DNA technology. The mouse cDNA library of<br />
BALB/c strain was cloned and characterized for<br />
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its activity. The IL-2 cDNA consisted of 450 base<br />
pairs, repeating CAG and showed high homology<br />
at 100%, 100%, 91%, 96% and 94% with five<br />
strains of mice previously reported (GeneBank<br />
accession number AY147902.1, MMU41494,<br />
MMU41504, MMU41505 and MMU41506). The<br />
rmIL-2 has been intensively studied and found that<br />
Figure 4 Detection of the recombinant mouse IL-2 (rmIL-2) by SDS-PAGE (A) and Western blotting<br />
(B) by probing with mouse IL-2 specific monoclonal antibody. M; molecular weight markers.<br />
Figure 5 The effect of various concentrations of the recombinant IL-2 on cell proliferation of the<br />
lymphocytes determined by XTT colorimetric assay while non-incubated cells with the<br />
recombinant IL-2 showed the OD450 nm = 0.248 (data not shown).