IFIT2

Interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 2
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 4G1T​
Identifiers
Symbols	IFIT2 ; G10P2; GARG-39; IFI-54; IFI-54K; IFI54; IFIT-2; ISG-54 K; ISG-54K; ISG54; P54; cig42
External IDs	OMIM: 147040 MGI: 99449 HomoloGene: 1187 GeneCards: IFIT2 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • protein binding • poly(A) RNA binding Cellular component • cytoplasm • endoplasmic reticulum • cytosol Biological process • apoptotic mitochondrial changes • response to virus • cytokine-mediated signaling pathway • negative regulation of protein binding • cellular response to interferon-alpha • positive regulation of apoptotic process • defense response to virus • type I interferon signaling pathway Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	3433	15958
Ensembl	ENSG00000119922	ENSMUSG00000045932
UniProt	P09913	Q64112
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001547	NM_008332
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001538	NP_032358
Location (UCSC)	Chr 10: 89.3 – 89.31 Mb	Chr 19: 34.55 – 34.58 Mb
PubMed search

Interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 2 or IFIT2 is a protein found in humans which is encoded by the IFIT2 gene.^[1][2][3]

Clinical significance

IFIT2 may play a role in prevention of tumor progression.^[4]

References

1. Wathelet MG, Szpirer J, Nols CB, Clauss IM, De Wit L, Islam MQ, Levan G, Horisberger MA, Content J, Szpirer C (Nov 1988). "Cloning and chromosomal location of human genes inducible by type I interferon". Somat Cell Mol Genet 14 (5): 415–26. doi:10.1007/BF01534709. PMID 3175763.
2. Wathelet MG, Clauss IM, Content J, Huez GA (Jun 1988). "The IFI-56K and IFI-54K interferon-inducible human genes belong to the same gene family". FEBS Lett 231 (1): 164–71. doi:10.1016/0014-5793(88)80724-5. PMID 3360121.
3. "Entrez Gene: IFIT2 interferon-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 2".
4. Lai KC, Chang KW, Liu CJ, Kao SY, Lee TC (2008). "IFN-induced protein with tetratricopeptide repeats 2 inhibits migration activity and increases survival of oral squamous cell carcinoma". Mol. Cancer Res. 6 (9): 1431–9. doi:10.1158/1541-7786.MCR-08-0141. PMID 18819931.

Further reading

• Lafage M, Clauss I, Couez D, Simonetti J, Wathelet MG, Huez G (1992). "The interferon- and virus-inducible IFI-56K and IFI-54K genes are located on human chromosome 10 at bands q23-q24". Genomics 13 (2): 458–60. doi:10.1016/0888-7543(92)90272-T. PMID 1377167.
• Wathelet MG, Clauss IM, Content J, Huez GA (1988). "Regulation of two interferon-inducible human genes by interferon, poly(rI).poly(rC) and viruses". Eur. J. Biochem. 174 (2): 323–9. doi:10.1111/j.1432-1033.1988.tb14101.x. PMID 2454816.
• Ulker N, Zhang X, Samuel CE (1988). "Mechanism of interferon action. I. Characterization of a 54-kDa protein induced by gamma interferon with properties similar to a cytoskeletal component". J. Biol. Chem. 262 (35): 16798–803. PMID 3119591.
• Levy D, Larner A, Chaudhuri A, Babiss LE, Darnell JE (1987). "Interferon-stimulated transcription: isolation of an inducible gene and identification of its regulatory region". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 83 (23): 8929–33. doi:10.1073/pnas.83.23.8929. PMC 387047. PMID 3466167.
• Zhu H, Cong JP, Shenk T (1998). "Use of differential display analysis to assess the effect of human cytomegalovirus infection on the accumulation of cellular RNAs: Induction of interferon-responsive RNAs". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94 (25): 13985–90. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.25.13985. PMC 28419. PMID 9391139.
• Gavrilov BG, Monastyrskaia GS, Velikodvorskaia TV, Filiukova OB, Konovalova SN, Kachko AA, Protopopova EV, Nikolaev LG, Loktev VB, Sverdlov ED (2003). "[Late activation of interferon-induced genes IFI-54k and IFI-56k in human RH cells infected with tick-borne encephalitis virus]". Bioorg. Khim. 29 (2): 175–80. PMID 12708317.
• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, Hirozane-Kishikawa T, Dricot A, Li N, Berriz GF, Gibbons FD, Dreze M, Ayivi-Guedehoussou N, Klitgord N, Simon C, Boxem M, Milstein S, Rosenberg J, Goldberg DS, Zhang LV, Wong SL, Franklin G, Li S, Albala JS, Lim J, Fraughton C, Llamosas E, Cevik S, Bex C, Lamesch P, Sikorski RS, Vandenhaute J, Zoghbi HY, Smolyar A, Bosak S, Sequerra R, Doucette-Stamm L, Cusick ME, Hill DE, Roth FP, Vidal M (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514.
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• Terenzi F, Hui DJ, Merrick WC, Sen GC (2006). "Distinct induction patterns and functions of two closely related interferon-inducible human genes, ISG54 and ISG56". J. Biol. Chem. 281 (45): 34064–71. doi:10.1074/jbc.M605771200. PMID 16973618.
• Saha S, Sugumar P, Bhandari P, Rangarajan PN (2006). "Identification of Japanese encephalitis virus-inducible genes in mouse brain and characterization of GARG39/IFIT2 as a microtubule-associated protein". J. Gen. Virol. 87 (Pt 11): 3285–9. doi:10.1099/vir.0.82107-0. PMID 17030862.
• Olsen JV, Blagoev B, Gnad F, Macek B, Kumar C, Mortensen P, Mann M (2006). "Global, in vivo, and site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in signaling networks". Cell 127 (3): 635–48. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.026. PMID 17081983.