PLA2G4B explained

Phospholipase A2, group IVB (cytosolic), also known as PLA2G4B, is a human gene.^[1]

Further reading

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• Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB . Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery . Genome Res. . 6 . 9 . 791–806 . 1997 . 8889548 . 10.1101/gr.6.9.791 . free .
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• Mavoungou E, Georges-Courbot MC, Poaty-Mavoungou V, etal . HIV and SIV envelope glycoproteins induce phospholipase A2 activation in human and macaque lymphocytes . J. Acquir. Immune Defic. Syndr. Hum. Retrovirol. . 16 . 1 . 1–9 . 1997 . 9377118 . 10.1097/00042560-199709010-00001. free .
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• Degousee N, Ghomashchi F, Stefanski E, etal . Groups IV, V, and X phospholipases A2s in human neutrophils: role in eicosanoid production and gram-negative bacterial phospholipid hydrolysis . J. Biol. Chem. . 277 . 7 . 5061–73 . 2002 . 11741884 . 10.1074/jbc.M109083200 . free .
• 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 .
• Pope SN, Lee IR . Yeast two-hybrid identification of prostatic proteins interacting with human sex hormone-binding globulin . J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Biol. . 94 . 1–3 . 203–8 . 2005 . 15862967 . 10.1016/j.jsbmb.2005.01.007 . 9746088 .
• Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, etal . Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes . Genome Res. . 16 . 1 . 55–65 . 2006 . 16344560 . 10.1101/gr.4039406 . 1356129 .
• Ghosh M, Loper R, Gelb MH, Leslie CC . Identification of the expressed form of human cytosolic phospholipase A2beta (cPLA2beta): cPLA2beta3 is a novel variant localized to mitochondria and early endosomes . J. Biol. Chem. . 281 . 24 . 16615–24 . 2006 . 16617059 . 10.1074/jbc.M601770200 . free .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Entrez Gene: PLA2G4B phospholipase A2, group IVB (cytosolic).