PILRA

Cell signaling pathways rely on a dynamic interaction between activating and inhibiting processes. SHP-1-mediated dephosphorylation of protein tyrosine residues is central to the regulation of several cell signaling pathways. Two types of inhibitory receptor superfamily members are immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM)-bearing receptors and their non-ITIM-bearing, activating counterparts. Control of cell signaling via SHP-1 is thought to occur through a balance between PILRalpha-mediated inhibition and PILRbeta-mediated activation. These paired immunoglobulin-like receptor genes are located in a tandem head-to-tail orientation on chromosome 7. This particular gene encodes the ITIM-bearing member of the receptor pair, which functions in the inhibitory role. Alternative splicing has been observed at this locus and three variants, each encoding a distinct isoform, are described. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Description

Paired immunoglobin like type 2 receptor alpha

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Predicted location

Membrane, Secreted to blood

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted membrane proteins
Predicted secreted proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

7 (100367530 - 100400096)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000085514  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

-

UniProt

Q9UKJ1

neXtProt

NX_Q9UKJ1

Human splice variants

Protein structure