AmiGO 2: Term Details for "cytokine activity" (GO:0005125)

Accession: GO:0005125
Name: cytokine activity
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: autocrine activity, paracrine activity
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The activity of a soluble extracellular gene product that interacts with a receptor to effect a change in the activity of the receptor to control the survival, growth, differentiation and effector function of tissues and cells. Source: PMID:11530802, ISBN:0198599471
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0005125 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: goslim_chembl
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to cytokine activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to cytokine activity (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for cytokine activity (excluding "regulates").

Include "regulates"
For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
cytokine activity	is_a	receptor ligand activity (GO:0048018)

subject	relation	object
chemokine activity (GO:0008009)	is_a	cytokine activity
positive regulation of cytokine activity (GO:0060301)	RO:0002213	cytokine activity
negative regulation of cytokine activity (GO:0060302)	RO:0002212	cytokine activity
regulation of cytokine activity (GO:0060300)	RO:0002211	cytokine activity

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