Protein-coding gene in humans
Beta-defensin 127 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DEFB127 gene .[3] [4]
Defensins are cysteine -rich cationic polypeptides that are important in the immunologic response to invading microorganisms. The protein encoded by this gene is secreted and is a member of the beta defensin protein family. Beta defensin genes are found in several clusters throughout the genome, with this gene mapping to a cluster at 20p13.[4]
References
^ a b c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000088782 – Ensembl , May 2017^ "Human PubMed Reference:" . National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine .^ Schutte BC, Mitros JP, Bartlett JA, Walters JD, Jia HP, Welsh MJ, Casavant TL, McCray PB Jr (Feb 2002). "Discovery of five conserved beta -defensin gene clusters using a computational search strategy" . Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A . 99 (4): 2129–33. Bibcode :2002PNAS...99.2129S . doi :10.1073/pnas.042692699 PMC 122330 PMID 11854508 . ^ a b "Entrez Gene: DEFB127 defensin, beta 127" .
Further reading
van Wetering S, Sterk PJ, Rabe KF, Hiemstra PS (2000). "Defensins: key players or bystanders in infection, injury, and repair in the lung?" . J. Allergy Clin. Immunol . 104 (6): 1131–8. doi :10.1016/S0091-6749(99)70004-7 PMID 10588992 . Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)" . Genome Res . 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi :10.1101/gr.2596504 . PMC 528928 PMID 15489334 . Zhang Z, Henzel WJ (2005). "Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites" . Protein Sci . 13 (10): 2819–24. doi :10.1110/ps.04682504 . PMC 2286551 PMID 15340161 . Clark HF, Gurney AL, Abaya E, et al. (2003). "The secreted protein discovery initiative (SPDI), a large-scale effort to identify novel human secreted and transmembrane proteins: a bioinformatics assessment" . Genome Res . 13 (10): 2265–70. doi :10.1101/gr.1293003 . PMC 403697 PMID 12975309 . Rodríguez-Jiménez FJ, Krause A, Schulz S, et al. (2003). "Distribution of new human beta-defensin genes clustered on chromosome 20 in functionally different segments of epididymis". Genomics . 81 (2): 175–83. doi :10.1016/S0888-7543(02)00034-4 . PMID 12620395 . Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "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. Bibcode :2002PNAS...9916899M . doi :10.1073/pnas.242603899 PMC 139241 PMID 12477932 . Deloukas P, Matthews LH, Ashurst J, et al. (2002). "The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 20" . Nature . 414 (6866): 865–71. Bibcode :2001Natur.414..865D . doi :10.1038/414865a PMID 11780052 .
