Bos taurus Protein: IL18
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-681950.2
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol IL18
Protein Name Interleukin-18
Synonyms
Species Bos taurus
Ensembl Protein ENSBTAP00000055793
InnateDB Gene IDBG-630481 (IL18)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function Augments natural killer cell activity in spleen cells and stimulates interferon gamma production in T-helper type I cells. {ECO:0000250}.
Subcellular Localization Secreted.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 0 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 10 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Predicted by orthology
Total 10 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005125 cytokine activity
Biological Process
GO:0000165 MAPK cascade
GO:0001525 angiogenesis
GO:0006954 inflammatory response
GO:0010628 positive regulation of gene expression
GO:0030101 natural killer cell activation
GO:0030155 regulation of cell adhesion
GO:0031663 lipopolysaccharide-mediated signaling pathway
GO:0032725 positive regulation of granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor production
GO:0032729 positive regulation of interferon-gamma production
GO:0032740 positive regulation of interleukin-17 production
GO:0032819 positive regulation of natural killer cell proliferation
GO:0042088 T-helper 1 type immune response
GO:0042104 positive regulation of activated T cell proliferation
GO:0042346 positive regulation of NF-kappaB import into nucleus
GO:0051142 positive regulation of NK T cell proliferation
GO:0071407 cellular response to organic cyclic compound
Cellular Component
GO:0005576 extracellular region
GO:0005615 extracellular space
GO:0070062 extracellular vesicular exosome
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR000975 Interleukin-1 family
IPR008996 Cytokine, IL-1-like
IPR015529 Interleukin-18
PFAM PF00340
PRINTS PR00264
PR01933
PIRSF PIRSF015162
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt Q9TU73
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-
TrEMBL Q9MZL8
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 281249
UniGene Bt.234
RefSeq NP_776516
HUGO
OMIM
CCDS
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL AF124789 AF173175 BC102879 EU276078 EU574909 GJ062397
GenPept AAF08686 AAF89833 AAI02880 ABX72076 ACC60256 DAA22357