Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 5.2.2)
Enables cytokine activity. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including negative regulation of meiotic nuclear division; positive regulation of peptidyl-tyrosine phosphorylation; and tyrosine phosphorylation of STAT protein. Predicted to be located in extracellular space. Is expressed in aorta-gonad-mesonephros; future spinal cord; genitourinary system; liver; and submandibular gland. Orthologous to human OSM (oncostatin M).