IFNA21 explained

Interferon alpha-21 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA21 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Goeddel DV, Leung DW, Dull TJ, etal . The structure of eight distinct cloned human leukocyte interferon cDNAs. . Nature . 290 . 5801 . 20–6 . 1981 . 6163083 . 10.1038/290020a0 . 1981Natur.290...20G . 1900300 .
• Gren E, Berzin V, Jansone I, etal . Novel human leukocyte interferon subtype and structural comparison of alpha interferon genes. . J. Interferon Res. . 4 . 4 . 609–17 . 1985 . 6548765 . 10.1089/jir.1984.4.609.
• 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 .
• Hussain M, Gill DS, Liao MJ . Identification of interferon-alpha 7, -alpha 14, and -alpha 21 variants in the genome of a large human population . J. Interferon Cytokine Res. . 16 . 10 . 853–9 . 1997 . 8910771 . 10.1089/jir.1996.16.853.
• Kawaguchi N, Yamada T, Yoshiyama Y . [Expression of interferon-alpha mRNA in human brain tissues] . No to Shinkei . 49 . 1 . 69–73 . 1997 . 9027905 .
• 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 . Pt 2. 295–302 . 1998 . 9425112 . 10.1042/bj3290295. 1219044 .
• 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 .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The Status, Quality, and Expansion of the NIH Full-Length cDNA Project: The Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC) . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 .

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: IFNA21 interferon, alpha 21.