METRN

Meteorin, glial cell differentiation regulator is a protein that in humans is encoded by the METRN gene. [4]

METRN
Identifiers
Aliases	METRN, C16orf23, c380A1.2, meteorin, glial cell differentiation regulator
External IDs	OMIM: 610998 MGI: 1917333 HomoloGene: 11432 GeneCards: METRN
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 16 (human)[1] Band 16p13.3 Start 715,118 bp[1] End 719,655 bp[1]
Gene ontology Molecular function • hormone activity Cellular component • extracellular region • extracellular Biological process • multicellular organism development • cell differentiation • glial cell differentiation • positive regulation of axonogenesis • nervous system development • signal transduction Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	79006	70083
Ensembl	ENSG00000103260	n/a
UniProt	Q9UJH8	Q8C1Q4
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_024042	NM_133719
RefSeq (protein)	NP_076947	NP_598480
Location (UCSC)	Chr 16: 0.72 – 0.72 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[2]	[3]
Wikidata
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Function

Meteorin regulates glial cell differentiation and promotes the formation of axonal networks during neurogenesis (Nishino et al., 2004 [PubMed 15085178]).

References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000103260 - Ensembl, May 2017
2. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
3. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. "Entrez Gene: Meteorin, glial cell differentiation regulator". Retrieved 2016-02-25.

Further reading

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.