CKLF (gene)

CKLF
Identifiers
AliasesCKLF, C32, CKLF1, CKLF2, CKLF3, CKLF4, UCK-1, HSPC224, chemokine-like factor, chemokine like factor
External IDsMGI: 1922708 HomoloGene: 9663 GeneCards: CKLF
RNA expression pattern


More reference expression data
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez

51192

75458

Ensembl

ENSG00000217555

ENSMUSG00000054400

UniProt

Q9UBR5

Q9DAS1

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001037840
NM_001037841
NM_001286383
NM_029295
NM_029313

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001035228
NP_057410
NP_058647
NP_857591
NP_857592

NP_001032930
NP_001273312
NP_083571

Location (UCSC)Chr 16: 66.55 – 66.57 MbChr 8: 104.25 – 104.26 Mb
PubMed search[1][2]
Wikidata
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Chemokine-like factor is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CKLF gene.[3][4][5]

The product of this gene is a cytokine. Cytokines are small proteins that have an essential role in the immune and inflammatory responses. This gene is one of several chemokine-like factor genes located in a cluster on chromosome 16. The protein encoded by this gene is a potent chemoattractant for neutrophils, monocytes and lymphocytes. It also can stimulate the proliferation of skeletal muscle cells. This protein may play important roles in inflammation and in the regeneration of skeletal muscle. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified.[5]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Zhang QH, Ye M, Wu XY, Ren SX, Zhao M, Zhao CJ, Fu G, Shen Y, Fan HY, Lu G, Zhong M, Xu XR, Han ZG, Zhang JW, Tao J, Huang QH, Zhou J, Hu GX, Gu J, Chen SJ, Chen Z (Nov 2000). "Cloning and functional analysis of cDNAs with open reading frames for 300 previously undefined genes expressed in CD34+ hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells". Genome Res. 10 (10): 1546–60. PMC 310934Freely accessible. PMID 11042152. doi:10.1101/gr.140200.
  4. Han W, Lou Y, Tang J, Zhang Y, Chen Y, Li Y, Gu W, Huang J, Gui L, Tang Y, Li F, Song Q, Di C, Wang L, Shi Q, Sun R, Xia D, Rui M, Tang J, Ma D (Jun 2001). "Molecular cloning and characterization of chemokine-like factor 1 (CKLF1), a novel human cytokine with unique structure and potential chemotactic activity". Biochem J. 357 (Pt 1): 127–35. PMC 1221935Freely accessible. PMID 11415443. doi:10.1042/0264-6021:3570127.
  5. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: CKLF chemokine-like factor".

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