IFNA8 (interferon alpha 8)

Gene

• Entrez ID: 3445
• Gene name: Interferon alpha 8
• Gene symbol: IFNA8
• Synonyms (NCBI Gene): IFN-alphaB
• Chromosome: 9
• Chromosome location: 9p21.3

miRNA

miRTarBase ID	miRNA	Experiments	Reference
MIRT1060640	hsa-miR-4328	CLIP-seq
MIRT1060641	hsa-miR-507	CLIP-seq
MIRT1060642	hsa-miR-557	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549842	hsa-miR-1323	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549843	hsa-miR-3129-3p	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549844	hsa-miR-4503	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549845	hsa-miR-4735-5p	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549846	hsa-miR-548o	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549842	hsa-miR-1323	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549843	hsa-miR-3129-3p	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549844	hsa-miR-4503	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549845	hsa-miR-4735-5p	CLIP-seq
MIRT2549846	hsa-miR-548o	CLIP-seq

Gene ontology (GO)

GO ID	Ontology	Definition	Evidence	Reference
GO:0002250	Process	Adaptive immune response	IBA
GO:0002286	Process	T cell activation involved in immune response	IBA
GO:0002312	Process	B cell activation involved in immune response	IBA
GO:0002323	Process	Natural killer cell activation involved in immune response	IBA
GO:0005125	Function	Cytokine activity	IBA
GO:0005125	Function	Cytokine activity	IEA
GO:0005126	Function	Cytokine receptor binding	IEA
GO:0005126	Function	Cytokine receptor binding	TAS	6163083
GO:0005132	Function	Type I interferon receptor binding	IBA
GO:0005515	Function	Protein binding	IPI	32296183
GO:0005576	Component	Extracellular region	IEA
GO:0005576	Component	Extracellular region	TAS
GO:0005615	Component	Extracellular space	IBA
GO:0005615	Component	Extracellular space	IEA
GO:0006952	Process	Defense response	IEA
GO:0006959	Process	Humoral immune response	IBA
GO:0043330	Process	Response to exogenous dsRNA	IBA
GO:0051607	Process	Defense response to virus	IEA
GO:0060337	Process	Type I interferon-mediated signaling pathway	IBA
GO:0060337	Process	Type I interferon-mediated signaling pathway	NAS	30936491
GO:0098586	Process	Cellular response to virus	NAS	30936491

Other IDs

• MIM: 147568
• HGNC: 5429
• e!Ensembl: ENSG00000120242

Protein

• UniProt ID: P32881
• Protein name: Interferon alpha-8 (IFN-alpha-8) (Interferon alpha-B) (LeIF B) (Interferon alpha-B2)
• Protein function: Produced by macrophages, IFN-alpha have antiviral activities. Interferon stimulates the production of two enzymes: a protein kinase and an oligoadenylate synthetase.
• PDB: 6JHD
• Family and domains:

  Pfam

  Accession	ID	Position in sequence	Description	Type
  PF00143	Interferon	26 → 185	Interferon alpha/beta domain	Domain

• Sequence:

  MALTFYLLVALVVLSYKSFSSLGCDLPQTHSLGNRRALILLAQMRRISPFSCLKDRHDFE
  FPQEEFDDKQFQKAQAISVLHEMIQQTFNLFSTKDSSAALDETLLDEFYIELDQQLNDLE
  SCVMQEVGVIESPLMYEDSILAVRKYFQRITLYLTEKKYSSCAWEVVRAEIMRSFSLSIN
  LQKRLKSKE

• Sequence length: 189

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