| 释义 |
chemokine, n. Immunol.
Brit. |ˈkiːmə(ʊ)kʌɪn|, |ˈkɛmə(ʊ)kʌɪn|, U.S. |ˈkimoʊˌkaɪn|, |ˈkɛmoʊˌkaɪn|
[‹ chemo- comb. form + -kine (in cytokine n.).]
Any of a family of small proteins which have a variety of effects on immune function, including a chemoattractant effect on white blood cells, and have similar primary structures featuring a motif of four cysteine residues.
1992Jrnl. Exper. Med. 17659 (heading) Structural and functional identification of two human, tumor-derived monocyte chemotactic proteins (MCP-2 and MCP-3) belonging to the chemokine family. 1996Time ((Special Issue)) Fall 66/2 Working independently, research teams from the U.S. and Belgium zeroed in on a single protein, called a chemokine, that lodges on the surface of all T cells. 2004U.S. News & World Rep. 5 Apr. 63/3 Researchers showed that the preferred lodgings of breast cancer and melanoma were basically ‘advertising’ themselves with chemicals called chemokines. |