The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen Chordin across different species:

chordin (CHRD), chordin (Chrd), chordin (chd), chordin (chrd), chordin protein (chordin)

Other aliases include:

MGC133038, Chd, chordino, chd, X-chordin

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen Chordin:

chordin – OTTMUSP00000023072 – din – dino (din) – protein chordino – organizer-specific secreted-dorsalizing factor – chordin protein

Chordin fulfills a number of functions:

cytokine binding – heparin binding – protein binding – syndecan binding

Chordin is relevant to the following processes:

BMP signaling pathway in spinal cord dorsal/ventral patterning – floor plate development – multicellular organismal development – negative regulation of BMP signaling pathway – negative regulation of cell migration – positive regulation of cell adhesion – skeletal system development – central nervous system development – dorsal/ventral pattern formation – forebrain development – gastrulation with mouth forming second – mesoderm formation – negative regulation of osteoblast differentiation – osteoblast differentiation – pattern specification process – anterior/posterior axis specification – caudal fin morphogenesis – determination of left/right symmetry – determination of ventral identity – dorsal convergence – embryonic heart tube morphogenesis – embryonic hemopoiesis – heart looping – otic placode formation – regulation of BMP signaling pathway involved in heart jogging – specification of organ position – BMP signaling pathway involved in spinal cord dorsal/ventral patterning

Locations for Chordin:

extracellular region – extracellular space

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology