Predicted to enable cytokine activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including cellular response to lipopolysaccharide; cytokine-mediated signaling pathway; and inflammatory response to antigenic stimulus. Predicted to act upstream of or within positive regulation of interleukin-6 production. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. Orthologous to human IL36A (interleukin 36 alpha). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]