OAS2

OAS2
Identifiers
Aliases OAS2
External IDs MGI: 2180852 HomoloGene: 49478 GeneCards: OAS2
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

4939

246728

Ensembl

ENSG00000111335

ENSMUSG00000032690

UniProt

P29728

E9Q9A9

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_001032731
NM_002535
NM_016817

NM_145227

RefSeq (protein)

NP_001027903.1
NP_002526.2
NP_058197.2

NP_660262.2

Location (UCSC) Chr 12: 112.98 – 113.01 Mb Chr 5: 120.73 – 120.75 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthetase 2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the OAS2 gene.[3][4]

This gene encodes a member of the 2-5A synthetase family, essential proteins involved in the innate immune response to viral infection. The encoded protein is induced by interferons and uses adenosine triphosphate in 2'-specific nucleotidyl transfer reactions to synthesize 2',5'-oligoadenylates (2-5As). These molecules activate latent RNase L, which results in viral RNA degradation and the inhibition of viral replication. The three known members of this gene family are located in a cluster on chromosome 12. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described.[4]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Hovnanian A, Rebouillat D, Mattei MG, Levy ER, Marie I, Monaco AP, Hovanessian AG (Dec 1998). "The human 2',5'-oligoadenylate synthetase locus is composed of three distinct genes clustered on chromosome 12q24.2 encoding the 100-, 69-, and 40-kDa forms". Genomics. 52 (3): 267–277. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5443. PMID 9790745.
  4. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: OAS2 2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthetase 2, 69/71kDa".

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