Predicted to enable hormone activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including brown fat cell differentiation; positive regulation of brown fat cell differentiation; and response to muscle activity. Located in extracellular exosome. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]
Forensic Context
A review of single-cell sequencing studies in mice and humans following myocardial infarction identified the METRNL as a cytokine mediating macrophage-endothelial cell interactions within the post-infarction cardiac microenvironment [Bian et al. DOI:10.3892/mmr.2025.13680].