IFNA6 explained

Interferon alpha-6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA6 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• 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 .
• Zhang Z, Henzel WJ . Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites. . Protein Sci. . 13 . 10 . 2819–24 . 2005 . 15340161 . 10.1110/ps.04682504 . 2286551 .
• Hardy MP, Owczarek CM, Jermiin LS, etal . Characterization of the type I interferon locus and identification of novel genes. . Genomics . 84 . 2 . 331–45 . 2005 . 15233997 . 10.1016/j.ygeno.2004.03.003 .
• 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 .
• Nyman TA, Tölö H, Parkkinen J, Kalkkinen N . Identification of nine interferon-alpha subtypes produced by Sendai virus-induced human peripheral blood leucocytes. . 329 . Biochem. J. . (Pt 2) . 2. 295–302 . 1998 . 9425112 . 10.1042/bj3290295. 1219044 .
• 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 .
• Henco K, Brosius J, Fujisawa A, etal . Structural relationship of human interferon alpha genes and pseudogenes. . J. Mol. Biol. . 185 . 2 . 227–60 . 1985 . 4057246 . 10.1016/0022-2836(85)90401-2 .

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: IFNA6 interferon, alpha 6.