LILRA4

Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor, subfamily A (with TM domain), member 4
Identifiers
Symbols	LILRA4 ; CD85g; ILT7
External IDs	OMIM: 607517 HomoloGene: 69118 GeneCards: LILRA4 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • protein binding Cellular component • integral component of membrane Biological process • adaptive immune response Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	23547	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000239961	n/a
UniProt	P59901	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_012276	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_036408	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 19: 54.33 – 54.34 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[1]	n/a

Leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor subfamily A member 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LILRA4 gene.

This gene encodes an immunoglobulin-like cell surface protein preferentially expressed in plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDCs). This gene is highly expressed in PDCs, and is found to be rapidly down-regulated by interleukin 3 (IL3). This gene is one of the 19 highly related genes that form a leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor gene cluster (LRC) at chromosomal region 19q13.4.

Further reading

• Cho M, Ishida K, Chen J, et al. (2008). "SAGE library screening reveals ILT7 as a specific plasmacytoid dendritic cell marker that regulates type I IFN production". Int. Immunol. 20 (1): 155–64. doi:10.1093/intimm/dxm127. PMID 18048391. 
• Sellick GS, Wade R, Richards S, et al. (2008). "Scan of 977 nonsynonymous SNPs in CLL4 trial patients for the identification of genetic variants influencing prognosis". Blood 111 (3): 1625–33. doi:10.1182/blood-2007-08-110130. PMID 18006695. 
• Zhan X, Desiderio DM (2006). "Nitroproteins from a human pituitary adenoma tissue discovered with a nitrotyrosine affinity column and tandem mass spectrometry". Anal. Biochem. 354 (2): 279–89. doi:10.1016/j.ab.2006.05.024. PMID 16777052. 
• Cao W, Rosen DB, Ito T, et al. (2006). "Plasmacytoid dendritic cell–specific receptor ILT7–FcɛRIγ inhibits Toll-like receptor–induced interferon production". J. Exp. Med. 203 (6): 1399–405. doi:10.1084/jem.20052454. PMC 2118323. PMID 16735691. 
• Ju XS, Hacker C, Scherer B, et al. (2004). "Immunoglobulin-like transcripts ILT2, ILT3 and ILT7 are expressed by human dendritic cells and down-regulated following activation". Gene 331: 159–64. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2004.02.018. PMID 15094202. 
• Tedla N, Bandeira-Melo C, Tassinari P, et al. (2003). "Activation of human eosinophils through leukocyte immunoglobulin-like receptor 7". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 (3): 1174–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.0337567100. PMC 298746. PMID 12529506. 
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. 
• Rissoan MC, Duhen T, Bridon JM, et al. (2002). "Subtractive hybridization reveals the expression of immunoglobulin-like transcript 7, Eph-B1, granzyme B, and 3 novel transcripts in human plasmacytoid dendritic cells". Blood 100 (9): 3295–303. doi:10.1182/blood-2002-02-0638. PMID 12384430. 
• Young NT, Canavez F, Uhrberg M, et al. (2001). "Conserved organization of the ILT/LIR gene family within the polymorphic human leukocyte receptor complex". Immunogenetics 53 (4): 270–8. doi:10.1007/s002510100332. PMID 11491530.