InnateDB: Systems Biology of the Innate Immune Response

Homo sapiens Protein: IL7

Summary

InnateDB Protein

IDBP-484985.4

Last Modified

2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]

Gene Symbol

IL7

Protein Name

interleukin 7

Synonyms

IL-7;

Species

Homo sapiens

Ensembl Protein

ENSP00000427750

InnateDB Gene

IDBG-26153 (IL7)

Protein Structure

UniProt Annotation

Function

Hematopoietic growth factor capable of stimulating the proliferation of lymphoid progenitors. It is important for proliferation during certain stages of B-cell maturation.

Subcellular Localization

Secreted.

Disease Associations

Tissue Specificity

Comments

Interactions

Number of Interactions

This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 9 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.

Experimentally validated
Total	9 [view]
Protein-Protein	7 [view]
Protein-DNA	2 [view]
Protein-RNA	0
DNA-DNA	0
RNA-RNA	0
DNA-RNA	0

Gene Ontology

Molecular Function

Accession	GO Term
GO:0005126	cytokine receptor binding
GO:0005139	interleukin-7 receptor binding
GO:0005515	protein binding
GO:0008083	growth factor activity

Biological Process

GO:0006955	immune response
GO:0006959	humoral immune response
GO:0007267	cell-cell signaling
GO:0008284	positive regulation of cell proliferation
GO:0009887	organ morphogenesis
GO:0030890	positive regulation of B cell proliferation
GO:0043066	negative regulation of apoptotic process
GO:0045453	bone resorption
GO:0045582	positive regulation of T cell differentiation