IFNA4

Interferon, alpha 4
Identifiers
Symbols	IFNA4 ; IFN-alpha4a; INFA4
External IDs	OMIM: 147564 MGI: 107668 HomoloGene: 68536 GeneCards: IFNA4 Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • cytokine activity • type I interferon receptor binding • protein 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 • response to virus • 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	3441	15962
Ensembl	ENSG00000236637	ENSMUSG00000095498
UniProt	P05014	P01572
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_021068	NM_010502
RefSeq (protein)	NP_066546	NP_034632
Location (UCSC)	Chr 9: 21.19 – 21.19 Mb	Chr 4: 88.85 – 88.85 Mb
PubMed search

Interferon alpha-4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA4 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: IFNA4 interferon, alpha 4".

Further reading

• Mizoguchi J, Pitha PM, Raj NB (1985). "Efficient expression in Escherichia coli of two species of human interferon-alpha and their hybrid molecules.". DNA 4 (3): 221–32. doi:10.1089/dna.1985.4.221. PMID 3891272.
• Henco K, Brosius J, Fujisawa A, et al. (1985). "Structural relationship of human interferon alpha genes and pseudogenes.". J. Mol. Biol. 185 (2): 227–60. doi:10.1016/0022-2836(85)90401-2. PMID 4057246.
• Linnane AW, Beilharz MW, McMullen GL, et al. (1984). "Nucleotide sequence and expression in E. coli of a human interferon-alpha gene selected from a genomic library using synthetic oligonucleotides.". Biochem. Int. 8 (5): 725–32. PMID 6089830.
• 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). "Both variant forms of interferon-alpha4 gene (IFNA4a and IFNA4b) are present in the human population". J. Interferon Cytokine Res. 17 (9): 559–66. doi:10.1089/jir.1997.17.559. PMID 9335434.
• 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) (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.
• Yokota S, Yokosawa N, Okabayashi T, et al. (2004). "Induction of Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling-3 by Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Contributes to Inhibition of the Interferon Signaling Pathway". J. Virol. 78 (12): 6282–6. doi:10.1128/JVI.78.12.6282-6286.2004. PMC 416529. PMID 15163721.
• Humphray SJ, Oliver K, Hunt AR, et al. (2004). "DNA sequence and analysis of human chromosome 9". Nature 429 (6990): 369–74. doi:10.1038/nature02465. PMC 2734081. PMID 15164053.
• 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.