DEFB105A

Defensin, beta 105A
Identifiers
Symbols DEFB105A ; BD-5; DEFB-5; DEFB105
External IDs MGI: 1924924 HomoloGene: 17531 GeneCards: DEFB105A Gene
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 245908 77674
Ensembl ENSG00000186562 ENSMUSG00000043787
UniProt Q8NG35 Q8K4N3
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_152250 NM_152802
RefSeq (protein) NP_689463 NP_690015
Location (UCSC) Chr 8:
7.82 – 7.82 Mb
Chr 8:
19.11 – 19.11 Mb
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Beta-defensin 105 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DEFB105A gene.[1][2][3]

Defensins form a family of microbicidal and cytotoxic peptides made by neutrophils. Defensins are short, processed peptide molecules that are classified by structure into three groups: alpha-defensins, beta-defensins and theta-defensins. All beta-defensin genes are densely clustered in four to five syntenic chromosomal regions. Chromosome 8p23 contains at least two copies of the duplicated beta-defensin cluster. This duplication results in two identical copies of defensin, beta 105, DEFB105A and DEFB105B, in tail-to-tail orientation. This gene, DEFB105A, represents the more centromeric copy.[3]

References

  1. Schutte BC, Mitros JP, Bartlett JA, Walters JD, Jia HP, Welsh MJ, Casavant TL, McCray PB Jr (Feb 2002). "Discovery of five conserved beta -defensin gene clusters using a computational search strategy". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99 (4): 2129–33. doi:10.1073/pnas.042692699. PMC 122330. PMID 11854508.
  2. Semple CA, Rolfe M, Dorin JR (May 2003). "Duplication and selection in the evolution of primate beta-defensin genes". Genome Biol 4 (5): R31. doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-5-r31. PMC 156587. PMID 12734011.
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: DEFB105A defensin, beta 105A".

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