DEFA1B

defensin, alpha 1B
Identifiers
Symbol	DEFA1B
External IDs	GeneCards: DEFA1B Gene
Gene Ontology Cellular component • extracellular space • extracellular region Biological process • defense response to fungus • xenobiotic metabolic process • killing of cells of another organism • defense response to bacterium • defense response • immune response • chemotaxis • response to virus Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	728358	n/a
Ensembl	ENSG00000240247	n/a
UniProt	Q6EZF6	n/a
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001042500	n/a
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001035965	n/a
Location (UCSC)	Chr 8: 6.85 – 6.86 Mb	n/a
PubMed search	[1]	n/a

Defensin, alpha 1B a human protein that is encoded by the DEFA1B gene.^[1]

See also

• defensin

References

1. ^ "Entrez Gene: defensin". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=728358. 

Further reading

• Kocsis AK, Ocsovszky I, Tiszlavicz L, et al. (2009). "Helicobacter pylori induces the release of alpha-defensin by human granulocytes.". Inflamm. Res. 58 (5): 241–7. doi:10.1007/s00011-008-8100-z. PMID 19169650. 
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2002). "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. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139241. 
• Aldred PM, Hollox EJ, Armour JA (2005). "Copy number polymorphism and expression level variation of the human alpha-defensin genes DEFA1 and DEFA3.". Hum. Mol. Genet. 14 (14): 2045–52. doi:10.1093/hmg/ddi209. PMID 15944200.