Table 1.

Deer mouse cytokine and chemokine cDNA sequences compared to house mouse, rat, and human orthologs.

			Similarity (%) to:2
Gene	Size (bp)	Est. coding region (%)1	House mouse	Rat	Human
IL-2	456	98	82	89	80
IL-6	225	25	70	83	40
IL-12a	185	28	74	75	69
IL-13	184	47	84	80	71
IL-21	371	84	86	84	70
IL-23a	579	94	86	91	83
GM-CSF	175	39	73	69	62
CCL2	297	60	75	82	70
CCL3	260	45	90	88	81
CCL4	257	92	87	88	86
CXCL2	198	49	92	92	69

¹Estimated coding region is based upon length of house mouse polypeptide. ²Similarity is based upon amino acid comparisons, where gaps are treated as nonidentities, except as noted in the text for IL-2 (house mouse) and CCL2 (human).