IFNA8 explained

Interferon alpha-8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA8 gene.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• 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 .
• 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 .
• Yelverton E, Leung D, Weck P, etal . Bacterial synthesis of a novel human leukocyte interferon. . Nucleic Acids Res. . 9 . 3 . 731–41 . 1981 . 6164048 . 10.1093/nar/9.3.731 . 327233 .
• Bowden DW, Mao J, Gill T, etal . Cloning of eukaryotic genes in single-strand phage vectors: the human interferon genes. . Gene . 27 . 1 . 87–99 . 1984 . 6325303 . 10.1016/0378-1119(84)90241-5 .
• 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, Testa D . Interferon-alpha 8b is the only variant of interferon-alpha 8 identified in a large human population. . J. Interferon Cytokine Res. . 16 . 7 . 523–9 . 1997 . 8836918 . 10.1089/jir.1996.16.523 .
• 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 .
• 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 .
• 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 .

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: IFNA8 interferon, alpha 8. 2017-08-31. 2010-12-05. https://web.archive.org/web/20101205081110/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=gene. live.