XB-FEAT-12442261

ccl20

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summary for huamn CCL20 from NCBI

This antimicrobial gene belongs to the subfamily of small cytokine CC genes. Cytokines are a family of secreted proteins involved in immunoregulatory and inflammatory processes. The CC cytokines are proteins characterized by two adjacent cysteines. The protein encoded by this gene displays chemotactic activity for lymphocytes and can repress proliferation of myeloid progenitors. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Sep 2014]

nomenclature changes

11/07/2016 Human name has changed for Entrez Gene: 6364. From chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 20 to C-C motif chemokine ligand 20