Predicted to be involved in immune response. Predicted to act upstream of or within cellular response to virus and response to bacterium. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2025]
Forensic Context
A study in mice demonstrated that the IFI44 was identified as a specifically expressed core differentially expressed gene in the 12-hour group following skin and skeletal muscle wounding, where it was down-regulated, and its expression pattern contributes to the specificity and correlation with wound age estimation [Zhu et al. DOI:10.1016/j.legalmed.2021.101982].