IFNA8
Identifiers
Aliases	IFNA8, IFN-alphaB, interferon alpha 8
External IDs	OMIM: 147568 HomoloGene: 68237 GeneCards: IFNA8
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 9 (human)[1] Band 9p21.3 Start 21,409,117 bp[1] End 21,410,185 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in cerebellar cortex cerebellar hemisphere prefrontal cortex 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 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 innate immune response cytokine-mediated signaling pathway regulation of signaling receptor activity Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 3445 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000120242 n/a UniProt P32881 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_002170 n/a RefSeq (protein) NP_002161 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 9: 21.41 – 21.41 Mb n/a PubMed search [2] n/a
Wikidata
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Interferon alpha-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA8 gene.^[3][4]