| Primary Identifier | MGI:1928481 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
| Chromosome | 13 | NCBI Gene Number | 56048 |
| Mgi Type | protein coding gene |
| description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Enables carbohydrate binding activity. Acts upstream of or within T cell costimulation and plasma cell differentiation. Predicted to be located in cytosol. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. Orthologous to human LGALS8 (galectin 8). PHENOTYPE: Mice homozygous for a knock-out allele exhibit reduced VEGF-C-induced lymphangiogenesis, and ameliorated corneal pathology and lymphangiogenesis in a model of herpes simplex virus keratitis. Mice homozygous for a gene trapped allele exhibit hyperactivity. [provided by MGI curators] |