IFNA8

IFNA8
Identifiers
Aliases	IFNA8, IFN-alphaB, interferon alpha 8
External IDs	OMIM: 147568; MGI: 2667155; HomoloGene: 68237; GeneCards: IFNA8; OMA:IFNA8 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 9 (human) Band 9p21.3 Start 21,409,117 bp End 21,410,185 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 4 (mouse) Band 4 C4|4 42.02 cM Start 88,561,878 bp End 88,562,696 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in cerebellar cortex cerebellar hemisphere prefrontal cortex Top expressed in embryo More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function cytokine activity type I interferon receptor binding cytokine receptor binding Cellular component extracellular region extracellular space Biological process natural killer cell activation involved in immune response B cell differentiation defense response B cell proliferation blood coagulation positive regulation of peptidyl-serine phosphorylation of STAT protein humoral immune response adaptive immune response defense response to virus type I interferon signaling pathway response to exogenous dsRNA T cell activation involved in immune response innate immune response cytokine-mediated signaling pathway regulation of signaling receptor activity Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 3445 230396 Ensembl ENSG00000120242 ENSMUSG00000063376 UniProt P32881 Q80SU4 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002170 NM_177347 RefSeq (protein) NP_002161 NP_796321 Location (UCSC) Chr 9: 21.41 – 21.41 Mb Chr 4: 88.56 – 88.56 Mb PubMed search
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Interferon alpha-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA8 gene.

Further reading

• Henco K, Brosius J, Fujisawa A, et al. (1985). "Structural relationship of human interferon alpha genes and pseudogenes". J. Mol. Biol. 185 (2): 227–60. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(85)90401-2. PMID 4057246.
• Goeddel DV, Leung DW, Dull TJ, et al. (1981). "The structure of eight distinct cloned human leukocyte interferon cDNAs". Nature. 290 (5801): 20–6. doi:10.1038/290020a0. PMID 6163083.
• Yelverton E, Leung D, Weck P, et al. (1981). "Bacterial synthesis of a novel human leukocyte interferon". Nucleic Acids Res. 9 (3): 731–41. doi:10.1093/nar/9.3.731. PMC 327233. PMID 6164048.
• Bowden DW, Mao J, Gill T, et al. (1984). "Cloning of eukaryotic genes in single-strand phage vectors: the human interferon genes". Gene. 27 (1): 87–99. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(84)90241-5. PMID 6325303.
• Tiefenbrun N, Melamed D, Levy N, et al. (1996). "Alpha interferon suppresses the cyclin D3 and cdc25A genes, leading to a reversible G0-like arrest". Mol. Cell. Biol. 16 (7): 3934–44. doi:10.1128/MCB.16.7.3934. PMC 231390. PMID 8668211.
• Hussain M, Gill DS, Liao MJ, Testa D (1997). "Interferon-alpha 8b is the only variant of interferon-alpha 8 identified in a large human population". J. Interferon Cytokine Res. 16 (7): 523–9. doi:10.1089/jir.1996.16.523. PMID 8836918.
• Nyman TA, Tölö H, Parkkinen J, Kalkkinen N (1998). "Identification of nine interferon-alpha subtypes produced by Sendai virus-induced human peripheral blood leucocytes". Biochem. J. 329. ( Pt 2): 295–302. PMC 1219044. PMID 9425112.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Hardy MP, Owczarek CM, Jermiin LS, et al. (2005). "Characterization of the type I interferon locus and identification of novel genes". Genomics. 84 (2): 331–45. doi:10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.03.003. PMID 15233997.