IFNA5

Interferon, alpha 5
Identifiers
Symbols	IFNA5 ; IFN-alpha-5; IFN-alphaG; INA5; INFA5; leIF G
External IDs	OMIM: 147565 MGI: 107664 HomoloGene: 117697 GeneCards: IFNA5 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	3442	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000147873	n/a
UniProt	P01569	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_002169	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_002160	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 9: 21.3 – 21.31 Mb	n/a
PubMed search		n/a

Interferon alpha-5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA5 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: IFNA5 interferon, alpha 5".

Further reading

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Chuntharapai A, Gibbs V, Lu J, et al. (1999). "Determination of residues involved in ligand binding and signal transmission in the human IFN-alpha receptor 2.". J. Immunol. 163 (2): 766–73. PMID 10395669.
• 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.
• 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.
• Zhang Z, Henzel WJ (2005). "Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites.". Protein Sci. 13 (10): 2819–24. doi:10.1110/ps.04682504. PMC 2286551. PMID 15340161.
• 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.