Galectin-8 is a protein of the galectin family that in humans is encoded by the LGALS8 gene.
This gene encodes a member of the galectin family. Galectins are beta-galactoside-binding animal lectins with conserved carbohydrate recognition domains. The galectins have been implicated in many essential functions including development, differentiation, cell-cell adhesion, cell-matrix interaction, growth regulation, apoptosis, and RNA splicing. This gene is widely expressed in tumoral tissues and seems to be involved in integrin-like cell interactions. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008].
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Galectin-8 is a protein of the galectin family that in humans is encoded by the LGALS8 gene.
== Function ==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).