Automated description from the Alliance of Genome Resources (Release 7.0.0)
Enables cytokine activity. Acts upstream of or within several processes, including behavioral response to pain; negative regulation of meiotic nuclear division; and positive regulation of peptidyl-tyrosine phosphorylation. 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).