Nomenclature System for Chemokine Ligands and Receptors

The rapid pace of chemokine discovery led to a nomenclature crisis, especially in the naming of chemokine ligands. Early reports assigned multiple names to the same chemokine. Fortunately, a new standardized nomenclature has been adopted, largely based on a system previously used for naming of chemokine receptors. Specifically, chemokine receptors are referred to as CC (in the case of the CC chemokine family), CXC (for the CXC family), C (lymphotactin/ 

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