GENOMIC NUCLEIC ACIDS, cDNA AND mRNA WHICH CODE FOR POLYPEPTIDES WITH IL-16 ACTIVITY, PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF AND THEIR USE

摘要

A nucleic acid with which expression of a polypeptide having interleukin-16 activity can be achieved or regulated in a prokaryotic or eukaryotic host cell, wherein in the region coding for the said polypeptide said nucleic acid (a) corresponds to the DNA sequence SEQ ID NO:1 or its complementary strand; (b) hybridizes under stringent conditions with the DNA of sequence SEQ ID NO:1; (c) or is a nucleic acid sequence which, if there was no degeneracy of the genetic code, would hybridize under stringent conditions with the nucleic acid sequences defined by (a) and (b); (d) and, if it codes for a polypeptide having interleukin-16 activity, has a length of at least 1179 coding nucleotides, is suitable as genomic DNA for the recombinant production of IL-16 in eukaryotic host cells.