The macrophage migration inhibitory factor MIF is a phenylpyruvate tautomerase
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- 3 November 1997
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 417 (1) , 85-88
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0014-5793(97)01261-1
Abstract
A macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), originally described as a product of activated lymphocytes, has been defined as a 12 kDa protein, expressed in a wide variety of tissues. Here MIF is i...Keywords
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