Homo sapiens Gene: IL28A
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-50102.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol IL28A
Gene Name interleukin 28A (interferon, lambda 2)
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000183709
Encoded Proteins
interleukin 28A (interferon, lambda 2)
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
InnateDB Annotation
Summary
IL28A is able to efficiently inhibit Herpes Simplex Virus Type-1 replication in neuronal cells by inducing the expression of TLR as well as activate the TLR-mediated interferon antiviral pathway.
IFNL1, IFNL2 (IL28A) and IFNL3 have different effects on Toll-like receptor-related gene expression in HepG2 cells.
Entrez Gene
Summary This gene encodes a cytokine distantly related to type I interferons and the IL-10 family. This gene, interleukin 28B (IL28B), and interleukin 29 (IL29) are three closely related cytokine genes that form a cytokine gene cluster on a chromosomal region mapped to 19q13. Expression of the cytokines encoded by the three genes can be induced by viral infection. All three cytokines have been shown to interact with a heterodimeric class II cytokine receptor that consists of interleukin 10 receptor, beta (IL10RB) and interleukin 28 receptor, alpha (IL28RA). [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 19:39268514-39270092
Strand Forward strand
Band q13.2
Transcripts
ENST00000331982 ENSP00000333639
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 3 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 3 [view]
Protein-Protein 0
Protein-DNA 1 [view]
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 2 [view]
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005125 cytokine activity
Biological Process
GO:0002385 mucosal immune response
GO:0007259 JAK-STAT cascade
GO:0045087 innate immune response (InnateDB)
GO:0050778 positive regulation of immune response
GO:0051607 defense response to virus
Cellular Component
GO:0005615 extracellular space
Orthologs
No orthologs found for this gene
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
KEGG
Cytokine-cytokine receptor interaction pathway
Jak-STAT signaling pathway pathway
INOH
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt Q8IZJ0
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 282616
UniGene Hs.567792
RefSeq NM_172138
HUGO HGNC:18364
OMIM 607401
CCDS CCDS42567
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL AY129148 AY184373 AY336715 BC113581 BC113583 DQ126336 DQ126337
GenPept AAI13582 AAI13584 AAN28263 AAN86126 AAR24510 AAZ38827 AAZ38828
RNA Seq Atlas 282616