IFNA6
Identifiers
Aliases	IFNA6, IFN-alphaK, interferon alpha 6
External IDs	OMIM: 147566 HomoloGene: 105727 GeneCards: IFNA6
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 9 (human)[1] Band 9p21.3 Start 21,349,835 bp[1] End 21,351,378 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in putamen caudate nucleus Brodmann area 9 amygdala substantia nigra hippocampus proper occipital lobe nucleus accumbens hypothalamus spinal cord n/a More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function cytokine activity type I interferon receptor binding cytokine receptor binding Cellular component extracellular region extracellular space cellular component Biological process natural killer cell activation involved in immune response B cell differentiation defense response B cell proliferation blood coagulation positive regulation of peptidyl-serine phosphorylation of STAT protein humoral immune response adaptive immune response defense response to virus type I interferon signaling pathway response to exogenous dsRNA T cell activation involved in immune response cytokine-mediated signaling pathway innate immune response regulation of signaling receptor activity Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 3443 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000120235 n/a UniProt P05013 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_021002 n/a RefSeq (protein) NP_066282 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 9: 21.35 – 21.35 Mb n/a PubMed search [2] n/a
Wikidata
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Interferon alpha-6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA6 gene.^[3][4]