IGHA2 explained

Ig alpha-2 chain C region is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IGHA2 gene.^[1]

Further reading

• Kerr MA . The structure and function of human IgA . The Biochemical Journal . 271 . 2 . 285–96 . Oct 1990 . 2241915 . 1149552 . 10.1042/bj2710285.
• Tsuzukida Y, Wang CC, Putnam FW . Structure of the A2m(1) allotype of human IgA--a recombinant molecule . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 76 . 3 . 1104–8 . Mar 1979 . 286295 . 383197 . 10.1073/pnas.76.3.1104 . 1979PNAS...76.1104T . free .
• Toraño A, Putnam FW . Complete amino acid sequence of the alpha 2 heavy chain of a human IgA2 immunoglobulin of the A2m (2) allotype . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 75 . 2 . 966–9 . Feb 1978 . 416441 . 411380 . 10.1073/pnas.75.2.966 . 1978PNAS...75..966T . free .
• Ellison J, Buxbaum J, Hood L . Nucleotide sequence of a human immunoglobulin C gamma 4 gene . DNA . 1 . 1 . 11–8 . 1983 . 6299662 . 10.1089/dna.1.1981.1.11 .
• Ueda S, Nakai S, Nishida Y, Hisajima H, Honjo T . Long terminal repeat-like elements flank a human immunoglobulin epsilon pseudogene that lacks introns . The EMBO Journal . 1 . 12 . 1539–44 . 1984 . 6327276 . 553248 . 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1982.tb01352.x.
• Hisajima H, Nishida Y, Nakai S, Takahashi N, Ueda S, Honjo T . Structure of the human immunoglobulin C epsilon 2 gene, a truncated pseudogene: implications for its evolutionary origin . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 80 . 10 . 2995–9 . May 1983 . 6407005 . 393960 . 10.1073/pnas.80.10.2995 . free .
• Flanagan JG, Lefranc MP, Rabbitts TH . Mechanisms of divergence and convergence of the human immunoglobulin alpha 1 and alpha 2 constant region gene sequences . Cell . 36 . 3 . 681–8 . Mar 1984 . 6421489 . 10.1016/0092-8674(84)90348-9 . 54312675 .
• Ellison J, Hood L . Linkage and sequence homology of two human immunoglobulin gamma heavy chain constant region genes . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 79 . 6 . 1984–8 . Mar 1982 . 6804948 . 346106 . 10.1073/pnas.79.6.1984 . 1982PNAS...79.1984E . free .
• Flanagan JG, Rabbitts TH . Arrangement of human immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region genes implies evolutionary duplication of a segment containing gamma, epsilon and alpha genes . Nature . 300 . 5894 . 709–13 . Dec 1982 . 6817141 . 10.1038/300709a0 . 4335031 .
• Bunkenborg J, Pilch BJ, Podtelejnikov AV, Wiśniewski JR . Screening for N-glycosylated proteins by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry . Proteomics . 4 . 2 . 454–65 . Feb 2004 . 14760718 . 10.1002/pmic.200300556 . 29261009 .
• Kristiansen TZ, Bunkenborg J, Gronborg M, Molina H, Thuluvath PJ, Argani P, Goggins MG, Maitra A, Pandey A . A proteomic analysis of human bile . Molecular & Cellular Proteomics . 3 . 7 . 715–28 . Jul 2004 . 15084671 . 10.1074/mcp.M400015-MCP200 . free .
• Ramachandran P, Boontheung P, Xie Y, Sondej M, Wong DT, Loo JA . Identification of N-linked glycoproteins in human saliva by glycoprotein capture and mass spectrometry . Journal of Proteome Research . 5 . 6 . 1493–503 . Jun 2006 . 16740002 . 10.1021/pr050492k .
• Bernhard OK, Kapp EA, Simpson RJ . Enhanced analysis of the mouse plasma proteome using cysteine-containing tryptic glycopeptides . Journal of Proteome Research . 6 . 3 . 987–95 . Mar 2007 . 17330941 . 10.1021/pr0604559 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Entrez Gene: IGHA2 immunoglobulin heavy constant alpha 2 (A2m marker).