IFNA8
Sign in to saveAlso known as IFN-alphaB, interferon alpha 8
Interferon alpha-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA8 gene.
Gene data
IFNA8- Name
- interferon alpha 8
- Type
- protein-coding
- Position
- 21,409,117–21,410,185 (+)
- Aliases
- IFN-alphaB
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000120242
- RefSeq RNA
- NM_002170.4
- RefSeq protein
- NP_002161.2
Predicted to enable cytokine activity and type I interferon receptor binding activity. Predicted to be involved in several processes, including B cell activation; lymphocyte activation involved in immune response; and positive regulation of peptidyl-serine phosphorylation of STAT protein. Predicted to act upstream of or within defense response to virus. Predicted to be located in extracellular region. Predicted to be active in extracellular space. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]
Gene Ontology
Biological process
Molecular function
Cellular component
Pathways
via MyGene.info
Gene · Ensembl
interferon alpha 8
- Symbol
- IFNA8
- Biotype
- Protein coding
- Organism
- Homo sapiens
- Location
- 9:21,409,117-21,410,185
- Strand
- Forward (+)
- Assembly
- GRCh38
via Ensembl · EMBL-EBI
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- gene
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- HomoloGene ID
- 68237
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- exact match
- identifiers.org/ncbigene/3445
- chromosome
- human chromosome 9
- genomic start
- 21409117
- genomic end
- 21410184
- cytogenetic location
- 9p21.3
- expressed in
- prefrontal cortex
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- References
- Further reading
Interferon alpha-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA8 gene.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “IFNA8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.