IL12RB1
Domain
The WSXWS motif appears to be necessary for proper protein folding and thereby efficient intracellular transport and cell-surface receptor binding.
The box 1 motif is required for JAK interaction and/or activation.
Function
Functions as an interleukin receptor which binds interleukin-12 with low affinity and is involved in IL12 transduction. Associated with IL12RB2 it forms a functional, high affinity receptor for IL12. Associates also with IL23R to form the interleukin-23 receptor which functions in IL23 signal transduction probably through activation of the Jak-Stat signaling cascade.
Involvement in disease
Immunodeficiency 30
IMD30
A form of Mendelian susceptibility to mycobacterial disease, a rare condition caused by impairment of interferon-gamma mediated immunity. It is characterized by predisposition to illness caused by moderately virulent mycobacterial species, such as Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, environmental non-tuberculous mycobacteria, and by the more virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Other microorganisms rarely cause severe clinical disease in individuals with susceptibility to mycobacterial infections, with the exception of Salmonella which infects less than 50% of these individuals. Clinical outcome severity depends on the degree of impairment of interferon-gamma mediated immunity. Some patients die of overwhelming mycobacterial disease with lepromatous-like lesions in early childhood, whereas others develop, later in life, disseminated but curable infections with tuberculoid granulomas. IMD30 has low penetrance, and affected individuals have relatively mild disease and good prognosis. BCG disease and salmonellosis are the most frequent infections in IMD30 patients.
None
The disease is caused by variants affecting the gene represented in this entry.
Sequence Similarities
Belongs to the type I cytokine receptor family. Type 2 subfamily.
Cellular localization
- Membrane
- Single-pass type I membrane protein
Alternative names
CD212, IL12R, IL12RB, IL12RB1, Interleukin-12 receptor subunit beta-1, IL-12 receptor subunit beta-1, IL-12R subunit beta-1, IL-12R-beta-1, IL-12RB1, IL-12 receptor beta component