HPR (gene)

Haptoglobin-related protein
Identifiers
Symbols HPR ; A-259H10.2; HP
External IDs OMIM: 140210 MGI: 96211 HomoloGene: 122206 GeneCards: HPR Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 3250 15439
Ensembl ENSG00000261701 ENSMUSG00000031722
UniProt P00739 Q3UBS3
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_020995 NM_017370
RefSeq (protein) NP_066275 NP_059066
Location (UCSC) Chr 16:
72.06 – 72.08 Mb
Chr 8:
112.46 – 112.47 Mb
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Haptoglobin-related protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HPR gene.[1][2][3] The HPR gene affects hereditary immunity to a non-pathogenic species of African trypanosomes.[4]

See also

References

  1. Maeda N (Jul 1985). "Nucleotide sequence of the haptoglobin and haptoglobin-related gene pair. The haptoglobin-related gene contains a retrovirus-like element". J Biol Chem 260 (11): 6698–709. PMID 2987228.
  2. Nielsen MJ, Petersen SV, Jacobsen C, Oxvig C, Rees D, Moller HJ, Moestrup SK (Oct 2006). "Haptoglobin-related protein is a high-affinity hemoglobin-binding plasma protein". Blood 108 (8): 2846–9. doi:10.1182/blood-2006-05-022327. PMID 16778136.
  3. "Entrez Gene: HPR haptoglobin-related protein".
  4. Smith AB, Esko JD, Hajduk SL (1995). "Killing of trypanosomes by the human haptoglobin-related protein.". Science 268 (5208): 284–6. doi:10.1126/science.7716520. PMID 7716520.

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