IFNA21

Interferon, alpha 21
Identifiers
Symbols	IFNA21 ; IFN-alphaI; LeIF F; leIF-F
External IDs	OMIM: 147584 HomoloGene: 88661 GeneCards: IFNA21 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • cytokine activity • cytokine receptor binding • type I interferon receptor binding Cellular component • extracellular region • extracellular space Biological process • adaptive immune response • T cell activation involved in immune response • natural killer cell activation involved in immune response • humoral immune response • blood coagulation • cytokine-mediated signaling pathway • B cell differentiation • positive regulation of peptidyl-serine phosphorylation of STAT protein • B cell proliferation • response to exogenous dsRNA • innate immune response • defense response to virus • type I interferon signaling pathway • regulation of type I interferon-mediated signaling pathway Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	3452	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000137080	n/a
UniProt	P01568	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_002175	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_002166	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 9: 21.17 – 21.17 Mb	n/a
PubMed search		n/a

Interferon alpha-21 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA21 gene.^[1][2]

References

1. Olopade OI, Bohlander SK, Pomykala H, Maltepe E, Van Melle E, Le Beau MM, Diaz MO (Dec 1992). "Mapping of the shortest region of overlap of deletions of the short arm of chromosome 9 associated with human neoplasia". Genomics 14 (2): 437–43. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80238-1. PMID 1385305.
2. "Entrez Gene: IFNA21 interferon, alpha 21".

Further reading

• 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.
• Gren E, Berzin V, Jansone I, et al. (1985). "Novel human leukocyte interferon subtype and structural comparison of alpha interferon genes.". J. Interferon Res. 4 (4): 609–17. doi:10.1089/jir.1984.4.609. PMID 6548765.
• 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. PMC 231390. PMID 8668211.
• Hussain M, Gill DS, Liao MJ (1997). "Identification of interferon-alpha 7, -alpha 14, and -alpha 21 variants in the genome of a large human population". J. Interferon Cytokine Res. 16 (10): 853–9. doi:10.1089/jir.1996.16.853. PMID 8910771.
• Kawaguchi N, Yamada T, Yoshiyama Y (1997). "[Expression of interferon-alpha mRNA in human brain tissues]". No to Shinkei 49 (1): 69–73. PMID 9027905.
• 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.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.