Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables cytokine binding activity. Acts upstream of or within acute inflammatory response to antigenic stimulus; defense response to other organism; and glandular epithelial cell differentiation. Located in external side of plasma membrane. Is expressed in brain; peripheral nervous system; reproductive system; and stomach. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in primary localized cutaneous amyloidosis 2. Orthologous to human IL31RA (interleukin 31 receptor A).