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Aliases | TXLNA , IL14, TXLN, IL-14, taxilin alpha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
External IDs | OMIM: 608676; MGI: 105968; HomoloGene: 14062; GeneCards: TXLNA; OMA:TXLNA - orthologs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alpha-taxilin also known as interleukin-14 (IL-14) or high molecular weight B-cell growth factor (HMW-BCGF) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TXLNA gene. [5] [6] [7]
Interleukin-14 is a cytokine that controls the growth and proliferation of both normal and cancerous B cells. [8] This molecule was also recently designated taxilin. [9] IL-14 induces B-cell proliferation, inhibits antibody secretion, and expands selected B-cell subgroups. This interleukin is produced mainly by T cells and certain malignant B cells.
In murine models, two distinct transcripts are produced from opposite strands of the il14 gene that are called IL-14α and IL-14β. [10] The il14 locus is near the gene for LCK on chromosome 1 in humans.