The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen Midkine (Neurite Growth-Promoting Factor 2) across different species:

midkine (neurite growth-promoting factor 2) (MDK), midkine (Mdk), midkine (neurite growth-promoting factor 2) (mdk-b), midkine (MDK)

Other aliases include:

MK, NEGF2, FLJ27379, Mek, mdk, negf2, midkine, PTF-alpha-1, MDK

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen Midkine (Neurite Growth-Promoting Factor 2):

midkine – OTTHUMP00000197041 – OTTHUMP00000197042 – OTTHUMP00000197045 – OTTMUSP00000015220 – OTTMUSP00000015221 – OTTMUSP00000015222 – OTTMUSP00000015223 – retinoic acid-induced differentiation factor – MK – pleiotrophic factor-alpha-2 – PTF-alpha-2 – pleiotrophic factor-alpha2

Midkine (Neurite Growth-Promoting Factor 2) fulfills a number of functions:

growth factor activity – heparin binding

Midkine (Neurite Growth-Promoting Factor 2) is relevant to the following processes:

adrenal gland development – cell differentiation – multicellular organismal development – nervous system development – positive regulation of cell division – response to wounding – signal transduction – cell migration – M phase of mitotic cell cycle – response to drug – response to glucocorticoid stimulus – response to hormone stimulus

Locations for Midkine (Neurite Growth-Promoting Factor 2):

extracellular region

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology