Recombinant human interleukin-5 (rhIL-5) has been crystallized by the hanging drop vapor diffusion method using 0.1 M-Tris·HCl buffer (pH 8.5) containing 0.2 to 0.25 M-sodium acetate and 26 to 30% PEG 4000 at 22°C. The parallelepiped crystals belong to the space group C2 with unit cell dimensions of a = 122.1 Å, b = 36.11 Å, c = 56.42 Å, β = 98.59°. They diffract to at least 2.0 Å resolution on a rotating anode X-ray source. The molecular mass weight of the protein and the volume of the unit cell suggest that the asymmetric unit contains one intermolecular disulfide-bonded homodimer. © 1993 Academic Press, Inc.