Basic information

Full name
interleukin 7
Ensembl
ENSG00000104432.14
Summary
The protein encoded by this gene is a cytokine important for B and T cell development. This cytokine and the hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) form a heterodimer that functions as a pre-pro-B cell growth-stimulating factor. IL7 is found to be a cofactor for V(D)J rearrangement of the T cell receptor beta (TCRB) during early T cell development. This cytokine can be produced locally by intestinal epithelial and epithelial goblet cells, and may serve as a regulatory factor for intestinal mucosal lymphocytes. IL7 plays an essential role in lymphoid cell survival, and in the maintenance of naive and memory T cells. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms. Additional splice variants have been described but their presence in normal tissues has not been confirmed. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can be a potent inducer of proinflammatory cytokines and chemokines which may defend against the infection, but may also mediate destructive lung injury. Elevated serum IL7 levels, together with several other circulating cytokines and chemokines, has been found to be associated with the severity of Coronavirus Disease 19 (COVID-19). [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2020]
Annotation
Ligand

Protein product

  • ENST00000263851.9 Primary ENSP00000263851.4 (0 phosphosite)
  • ENST00000541183.2
  • ENST00000520269.5
  • ENST00000379113.6
  • ENST00000639719.1
Phosphosites on the primary protein product
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Tumor and normal comparison

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Signed p-values
Data type
Meta P
BRCA
CCRCC
COAD
GBM
HNSCC
LSCC
LUAD
OV
PDAC
UCEC
RNA0.015-6.7e-23--0.035-1.5e-10-1.5e-5-2.3e-5-
protein-----------

* P-values are from Wilcoxon rank sum test and can be clicked to show the box plots. Positive values mean higher abundance in tumor. BRCA and GBM do not have normal samples.

mRNA expression at gene level
BRCACCRCCCOADGBMHNSCCLSCCLUADOVPDACUCEC23456789101112log2(RSEM+1)tumornormal
Protein expression

* Mild outlier: filled circle; Extreme outlier: empty circle.

Phenotype and mutation association

Manhattan plot summarizing associations of phenotypes and mutations across all cohorts and omics data types

BRCACCRCCCOADGBMHNSCCLSCCLUADOVPDACUCEC02468101214160-2-4-6-8-10-12-14-16Pan-cancer0510152025303540455055600-5-10-15-20-25-30-35-40-45-50-55-60proteinRNASCNVclinicalpathwaycell typegenomicmutation-log10 of P-value

* Data points of significant associations above and below the dotted lines can be hovered to show the phenotype.

Associations of the protein abundance of IL7 with phenotypes and mutations

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Signed p-values
Phenotype
Meta P
BRCA
CCRCC
COAD
GBM
HNSCC
LSCC
LUAD
OV
PDAC
UCEC
cibersort: B cell naive-----------
cibersort: B cell memory-----------
cibersort: B cell plasma-----------
cibersort: T cell CD8+-----------
cibersort: T cell CD4+ naive-----------
cibersort: T cell CD4+ memory resting-----------
cibersort: T cell CD4+ memory activated-----------
cibersort: T cell follicular helper-----------
cibersort: T cell regulatory (Tregs)-----------
cibersort: T cell gamma delta-----------
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* P-values could be from test for Spearman correlation, Wilcoxon rank sum test, Jonckheere-Terpstra trend test or Cox regression depending on the data type. P-values for individual cohorts can be clicked to show the data plots. The matrix icons in each row can be clicked to show a heatmap summary of associations across all cohorts and omics. The rows in the table can be expanded to show results from other omics.

Cis-association

Associations between omics data of IL7

BRCA0.08proteinmRNASCNVmethylationCCRCC-0.030.430.14proteinmRNASCNVmethylationCOAD0.08proteinmRNASCNVmethylationGBM0.19-0.16-0.04proteinmRNASCNVmethylationHNSCC-0.06-0.150.10proteinmRNASCNVmethylationLSCC0.130.030.13proteinmRNASCNVmethylationLUAD-0.12-0.060.10proteinmRNASCNVmethylationOV0.01proteinmRNASCNVmethylationPDAC-0.050.150.03proteinmRNASCNVmethylationUCEC-0.09-0.150.21proteinmRNASCNVmethylation

* The numbers are Spearman correlation coefficients and can be clicked to show the scatter plots. The color and size of the circles correlate with the coefficients.

Trans-association

Associations of the protein abundance of IL7 and the protein abundance of other genes

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Signed p-values
Gene
Meta P
BRCA
CCRCC
COAD
GBM
HNSCC
LSCC
LUAD
OV
PDAC
UCEC
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* P-values are from test for Spearman correlation. P-values for individual cohorts can be clicked to show the data plots. The matrix icons in each row can be clicked to show a heatmap summary of associations across all cohorts and omics. The rows in the table can be expanded to show results from other omics.

Gene set enrichment analysis

Submit genes and the common logarithm of the p-values of their association with to WebGestalt.