Interleukin-12 subunit beta

IL12B
Available structures
PDBOrtholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases IL12B, CLMF, CLMF2, IL-12B, IMD28, NKSF, NKSF2, IMD29, Interleukin 12 subunit beta, interleukin 12B
External IDs MGI: 96540 HomoloGene: 1648 GeneCards: IL12B
Genetically Related Diseases
psoriasis[1]
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

3593

16160

Ensembl

ENSG00000113302

ENSMUSG00000004296

UniProt

P29460

P43432

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_002187

NM_008352
NM_001303244

RefSeq (protein)

NP_002178.2

NP_001290173.1

Location (UCSC) Chr 5: 159.31 – 159.33 Mb Chr 11: 44.4 – 44.41 Mb
PubMed search [2] [3]
Wikidata
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Subunit beta of interleukin 12 (also known as IL-12B, natural killer cell stimulatory factor 2, cytotoxic lymphocyte maturation factor p40, or interleukin-12 subunit p40)[4] is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IL12B gene. IL-12B is a common subunit of interleukin 12 and Interleukin 23.

Function

This gene encodes a subunit of interleukin 12, a cytokine that acts on T and natural killer cells, and has a broad array of biological activities. Interleukin 12 is a disulfide-linked heterodimer composed of the 40 kD cytokine receptor like subunit encoded by this gene, and a 35 kD subunit encoded by IL12A. This cytokine is expressed by activated macrophages that serve as an essential inducer of Th1 cells development. This cytokine has been found to be important for sustaining a sufficient number of memory/effector Th1 cells to mediate long-term protection to an intracellular pathogen. Overexpression of this gene was observed in the central nervous system of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), suggesting a role of this cytokine in the pathogenesis of the disease. The promoter gene polymorphism of this gene has been reported to be associated with the severity of atopic and non-atopic asthma in children.[4]

Role as IL-23 subunit

Interleukin-12 p40 also serves as a subunit of Interleukin 23.[5]

References

  1. "Diseases that are genetically associated with IL12B view/edit references on wikidata".
  2. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  4. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: IL12B interleukin 12B (natural killer cell stimulatory factor 2, cytotoxic lymphocyte maturation factor 2, p40)".
  5. Oppmann B, Lesley R, Blom B, Timans JC, Xu Y, Hunte B, Vega F, Yu N, Wang J, Singh K, Zonin F, Vaisberg E, Churakova T, Liu M, Gorman D, Wagner J, Zurawski S, Liu Y, Abrams JS, Moore KW, Rennick D, de Waal-Malefyt R, Hannum C, Bazan JF, Kastelein RA (November 2000). "Novel p19 protein engages IL-12p40 to form a cytokine, IL-23, with biological activities similar as well as distinct from IL-12". Immunity. 13 (5): 715–25. doi:10.1016/S1074-7613(00)00070-4. PMID 11114383.

Further reading

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