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Few cases of thyroid and colorectal cancers displayed moderate cytoplasmic staining with additional membranous positivity in liver cancers. Remaining cancer tissues were weakly stained or negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
CXCR3 (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
CD183, CKR-L2, CMKAR3, GPR9, IP10-R, MigR
Description
Chemokine (C-X-C motif) receptor 3 (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes a G protein-coupled receptor with selectivity for three chemokines, termed CXCL9/Mig (monokine induced by interferon-g), CXCL10/IP10 (interferon-g-inducible 10 kDa protein) and CXCL11/I-TAC (interferon-inducible T cell a-chemoattractant). Binding of chemokines to this protein induces cellular responses that are involved in leukocyte traffic, most notably integrin activation, cytoskeletal changes and chemotactic migration. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. One of the isoforms (CXCR3-B) shows high affinity binding to chemokine, CXCL4/PF4 (PMID:12782716). [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2011]