NgR3 is a 441 amino acid protein that belongs to the Nogo receptor family. Localized to the cell membrane, NgR3 contains 8 LRR (leucine-rich) repeats. NgR3 is predominantly expressed in brain, where it localizes to the surface of neurons, but is also found at lower levels in lung, placenta, kidney, mammary gland, skeletal muscle, spleen and salivary gland. NgR3 is thought to play a role in the regulation of axonal regeneration and plasticity in the adult central nervous system. The gene that encodes NgR3 maps to human chromosome 17, which makes up over 2.5% of the human genome with about 81 million bases encoding over 1,200 genes.