TNF RII Recombinant Protein

Background:

Tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 1B (TNFRSF1B) is a member of the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily. Human TNF RII contains four cysteinerich repeats in its ECD, which shares 58% and 56% amino acid sequence identity with the mouse and rat orthologs, respectively.TNF RII is expressed predominantly on cells of the hematopoietic lineage, such as T and natural killer cells, as well as on endothelial cells, microglia, astrocytes,neurons, oligodendrocytes, cardiac myocytes, thymocytes, and mesenchymal stem cells.TNF RII binds to the membranebound forms of TNF alpha and Lymphotoxin alpha/TNF beta soluble TNF is thought to signal predominately through TNF RI.Soluble TNF RII is believed to inhibit TNF biological activity by binding TNF thereby preventing it from activating membrane TNF receptors.