Primary Identifier | MGI:2180511 | Organism | mouse, laboratory |
Chromosome | 13 | NCBI Gene Number | 218624 |
Mgi Type | protein coding gene |
description | FUNCTION: Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 8.0.0) Enables cytokine binding activity. Acts upstream of or within acute inflammatory response to antigenic stimulus; defense response to other organism; and glandular epithelial cell differentiation. Located in external side of plasma membrane. Is expressed in brain; peripheral nervous system; reproductive system; and stomach. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in primary localized cutaneous amyloidosis 2. Orthologous to human IL31RA (interleukin 31 receptor A). PHENOTYPE: Homozygous null mice display no apparent abnormalities. [provided by MGI curators] |