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Development and Validation of an Ultrasensitive Single Molecule Array Digital Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay for Human Interferon-α
Published on: June 14, 2018
IFNA2: The prototypic human alpha interferon
Franciane Paul1, Sandra Pellegrini2, Gilles Uzé1
1CNRS UMR 5235, University Montpellier, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
Abstract:
The human interferon α2 (IFNα2) was the first highly active IFN subtype to be cloned in the early eighties. It was also the first IFN and the first cytokine to be produced and commercialized by the pharmaceutical industry. Ipso facto it became the favorite IFNα subtype for academic researchers. For this fortunate reason IFNα2 has been at the origin of most discoveries related to the mechanism of action of type I interferons.

