IFNA7

Protein-coding gene in the species Homo sapiens

IFNA7

Identifiers

Aliases

IFNA7, IFN-alphaJ, IFNA-J, interferon, alpha 7, interferon alpha 7

External IDs

OMIM: 147567 HomoloGene: 113762 GeneCards: IFNA7

Gene location (Human)

Chr.	Chromosome 9 (human)^[1]

Band	9p21.3	Start	21,201,469 bp^[1]
Band	9p21.3	End	21,202,205 bp^[1]

RNA expression pattern

Bgee

Human

Mouse (ortholog)

Top expressed in

pancreatic ductal cell

tibialis anterior muscle

sural nerve

n/a

More reference expression data

BioGPS

n/a

Gene ontology
Molecular function	cytokine activity type I interferon receptor binding cytokine receptor binding
Cellular component	extracellular region extracellular space
Biological process	defense response adaptive immune response response to exogenous dsRNA cell-cell signaling response to virus blood coagulation positive regulation of peptidyl-serine phosphorylation of STAT protein natural killer cell activation involved in immune response B cell proliferation humoral immune response defense response to virus type I interferon signaling pathway B cell differentiation T cell activation involved in immune response cytokine-mediated signaling pathway innate immune response regulation of signaling receptor activity
Sources:Amigo / QuickGO

Orthologs

Species

Human

Mouse

Entrez


3444


n/a

Ensembl


ENSG00000214042


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UniProt


P01567


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RefSeq (mRNA)


NM_021057


n/a

RefSeq (protein)


NP_066401


n/a

Location (UCSC)

Chr 9: 21.2 – 21.2 Mb

n/a

PubMed search

^[2]

n/a

Wikidata

View/Edit Human

Interferon alpha-7 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFNA7 gene.^[3]^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000214042 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ Olopade OI, Bohlander SK, Pomykala H, Maltepe E, Van Melle E, Le Beau MM, Diaz MO (Dec 1992). "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. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80238-1. PMID 1385305.
^ "Entrez Gene: IFNA7 interferon, alpha 7".

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Cytokine receptor modulators

Chemokine

See here instead.

CSF

Erythropoietin	Agonists: ARA-290 Asialo erythropoietin Carbamylated erythropoietin CNTO-530 Darbepoetin alfa Epoetin alfa Epoetin beta Epoetin delta Epoetin epsilon Epoetin gamma Epoetin kappa Epoetin omega Epoetin theta Epoetin zeta Erythropoietin (EPO) Erythropoietin-Fc Methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta (CERA/Mircera) Peginesatide Pegol sihematide (EPO-018B)
G-CSF (CSF3)	Agonists: Filgrastim Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor Lenograstim Leridistim Lipegfilgrastim Nartograstim Pegfilgrastim Pegnartograstim
GM-CSF (CSF2)	Agonists: Ecogramostim Granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor Milodistim Molgramostim Regramostim Sargramostim Antibodies: Mavrilimumab Namilumab Otilimab
M-CSF (CSF1)	Agonists: Cilmostim Interleukin-34 Lanimostim Macrophage colony-stimulating factor Mirimostim Kinase inhibitors: Agerafenib
SCF (c-Kit)	See here instead.
Thrombopoietin	Agonists: Eltrombopag Pegacaristim Promegapoietin Romiplostim Thrombopoietin (THPO, MGDF)

Interferon

IFNAR (α/β, I)	Agonists: Albinterferon Interferon alpha (interferon alfa, IFN-α) Interferon alfa (IFNA1, IFNA2, IFNA4, IFNA5, IFNA6, IFNA7, IFNA8, IFNA10, IFNA13, IFNA14, IFNA16, IFNA17, IFNA21) Interferon alfa 2a Interferon alfa 2b Interferon alfa n1 Interferon alfacon-1 Interferon alpha-n3 Interferon beta (IFN-β) (IFNB1, IFNB3) Interferon beta 1a Interferon beta 1b Interferon kappa (IFN-ε/κ/τ/ζ, IFNK) Interferon omega (IFN-ω, IFNW1) Peginterferon alfa-2a Peginterferon alfa-2b Antibodies: Anifrolumab Faralimomab MEDI-545 Rontalizumab Sifalimumab Decoy receptors: Bifarcept
IFNGR (γ, II)	Agonists: Interferon gamma (IFN-γ) Interferon gamma 1b Antibodies: Emapalumab Fontolizumab
IFNLR (λ, III)	See IL-28R (IFNLR) here instead.

Interleukin

See here instead.

TGFβ

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TNF

See here instead.

Others

JAK
(inhibitors)

JAK1	Abrocitinib Baricitinib Filgotinib Momelotinib Oclacitinib Peficitinib Ruxolitinib Tofacitinib (tasocitinib) Upadacitinib
JAK2	Atiprimod AZD-1480 Baricitinib CHZ868 Cucurbitacin I (elatericin B, JSI-124) CYT387 Lestaurtinib NSC-7908 NSC-33994 Pacritinib Peficitinib Ruxolitinib SD-1008 Tofacitinib (tasocitinib)
JAK3	Cercosporamide Decernotinib (VX-509) Peficitinib Ritlecitinib TCS-21311 Tofacitinib (tasocitinib) WHI-P 154 ZM-39923 ZM-449829
TYK2	Deucravacitinib