IFNA17 explained

Interferon alpha-17 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA17 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Sen GC, Lengyel P . The interferon system. A bird's eye view of its biochemistry. . J. Biol. Chem. . 267 . 8 . 5017–20 . 1992 . 10.1016/S0021-9258(18)42719-6 . 1371992 . free .
• Zoon KC, Miller D, Bekisz J, etal . Purification and characterization of multiple components of human lymphoblastoid interferon-alpha. . J. Biol. Chem. . 267 . 21 . 15210–6 . 1992 . 10.1016/S0021-9258(18)42167-9 . 1634550 . free .
• Savel'ev VI, Zlochevskiĭ ML, Sorokin AV, etal . [Cloning and the determination of the nucleotide sequences in 2 genes of human leukocyte interferons] . Antibiot. Med. Biotekhnol. . 31 . 8 . 592–6 . 1986 . 3767336 .
• Mizoguchi J, Pitha PM, Raj NB . Efficient expression in Escherichia coli of two species of human interferon-alpha and their hybrid molecules. . DNA . 4 . 3 . 221–32 . 1985 . 3891272 . 10.1089/dna.1985.4.221 .
• Lund B, von Gabain A, Edlund T, etal . Differential expression of interferon genes in a substrain of Namalwa cells. . J. Interferon Res. . 5 . 2 . 229–38 . 1985 . 4008999 . 10.1089/jir.1985.5.229.
• Lawn RM, Adelman J, Dull TJ, etal . DNA sequence of two closely linked human leukocyte interferon genes. . Science . 212 . 4499 . 1159–62 . 1981 . 6165082 . 10.1126/science.6165082 . 1981Sci...212.1159L .
• Fuke M, Hendrix LC, Bollon AP . Pseudogene IFN-alpha L: removal of the stop codon in the signal sequence permits expression of active human interferon. . Gene . 32 . 1–2 . 135–40 . 1985 . 6397400 . 10.1016/0378-1119(84)90041-6 .
• Tiefenbrun N, Melamed D, Levy N, etal . Alpha interferon suppresses the cyclin D3 and cdc25A genes, leading to a reversible G0-like arrest. . Mol. Cell. Biol. . 16 . 7 . 3934–44 . 1996 . 8668211 . 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3934. 231390 .
• Nyman TA, Tölö H, Parkkinen J, Kalkkinen N . Identification of nine interferon-alpha subtypes produced by Sendai virus-induced human peripheral blood leucocytes. . Biochem. J. . 329 . 2. 295–302 . 1998 . 9425112 . 10.1042/bj3290295. 1219044 .
• Hussain M, Tan T, Ni D, etal . A new allele of interferon-alpha17 gene encoding IFN-alpha17b is the major variant in human population. . J. Interferon Cytokine Res. . 18 . 7 . 469–77 . 1998 . 9712362 . 10.1089/jir.1998.18.469 .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, etal . 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 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . free .
• Kim JW, Roh JW, Park NH, etal . Interferon, alpha 17 (IFNA17) Ile184Arg polymorphism and cervical cancer risk. . Cancer Lett. . 189 . 2 . 183–8 . 2003 . 12490311 . 10.1016/S0304-3835(02)00548-7 .

Notes and References

1. Olopade OI, Bohlander SK, Pomykala H, Maltepe E, Van Melle E, Le Beau MM, Diaz MO . 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 . Dec 1992 . 1385305 . 10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80238-1 .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: IFNA17 interferon, alpha 17.