DEFA1B Gene
protein-coding GIFtS: 38
GCID: GC08M006843
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defensin, alpha 1B
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Aliases for DEFA1B gene
(According to
1HGNC,
2Entrez Gene,
3UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot,
4UniProtKB/TrEMBL, 5OMIM, 6GeneLoc,
7Ensembl,
8DME,
9miRBase,
and/or 10fRNAdb) About This Section
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| Defensin, Alpha 1B1 2 | | DEF13 | | HNP-12 3 | | DEFA23 | | HP-12 3 | | MRS3 | | HP12 3 | | Defensin, Alpha 13 | | Neutrophil Defensin 12 | | |
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Summaries for DEFA1B gene(According to Entrez Gene,
Tocris Bioscience,
Wikipedia's
Gene Wiki,
PharmGKB,
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot,
and/or
UniProtKB/TrEMBL)
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| UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot: DEF1_HUMAN, P59665Function: Defensin 1 and defensin 2 have antibacterial, fungicide and antiviral activities. Has antimicrobial activityagainst Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Defensins are thought to kill microbes by permeabilizing theirplasma membrane Gene Wiki entry for DEFA1B
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Genomic Views for DEFA1B gene
(According to
GeneLoc and/or
HGNC, and/or
Entrez Gene (NCBI build 37),
and/or miRBase,
Genomic Views according to
UCSC (hg19) and
Ensembl (release 69),
Regulatory elements and Epigenetics data according to
QIAGEN,
SABiosciences, and/or
SwitchGear Genomics) About This Section
| Regulatory elements: Search SABiosciences Regulatory transcription factor binding sites for DEFA1B Other transcription factors
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Epigenetics:
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Genomic Location: Genomic View: UCSC Golden Path with GeneCards custom track
Entrez Gene cytogenetic band: 8p23.1 Ensembl cytogenetic band: 8p23.1 HGNC cytogenetic band: 8p23.1DEFA1B Gene in genomic location: bands according to Ensembl, locations according to
(and/or Entrez Gene and/or Ensembl if different)

GeneLoc information about chromosome 8 GeneLoc Exon Structure GeneLoc location for GC08M006843: view genomic region
(about GC identifiers)
Start:
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6,854,288 bp from pter |
End:
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6,875,778 bp from pter |
Size:
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21,491 bases |
Orientation:
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minus strand |
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Proteins for DEFA1B gene
(According to
1UniProtKB,
HORDE,
neXtProt,
Ensembl,
and/or Reactome,
Modification sites according to 2PhosphoSitePlus,
Specific Peptides from DME,
Protein expression images according to data from SPIRE MOPED and PaxDb,
RefSeq according to NCBI,
PDB rendering according to OCA and/or Proteopedia,
Recombinant Proteins
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Ontologies according to Gene
Ontology Consortium 01 Mar 2013 and
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Antibodies by
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GenScript,
Cell Signaling Technology,
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| UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot: DEF1_HUMAN, P59665 (See
protein sequence)Recommended Name: Neutrophil defensin 1 precursor Size: 94 amino acids; 10201 Da
Subunit: Dimer
Subcellular location: Secreted
6/14 PDB 3D structures from and Proteopedia for DEFA1B (see all 14):2KHT (3D)
  2PM1 (3D)
  3GNY (3D)
  3H6C (3D)
  3HJ2 (3D)
  3HJD (3D)
 
Secondary accessions: P11479 Q14125 Q6EZF6Explore the universe of human proteins at neXtProt for DEFA1B: NX_P59665
Post-translational modifications:
ADP-ribosylation drastically reduces cytotoxic and antibacterial activities, and enhances IL8 production1
Phosphorylation at Tyr-85 has been found in some cancer cell lines, and interferes with ADP-rybosylation1
View modification sites using PhosphoSitePlus2View neXtProt modification sites for NX_P59665 DEFA1B Protein expression data from MOPED and PaxDb: About this image 
REFSEQ proteins: NP_001035965.1 ENSEMBL proteins: ENSP00000372136 ENSP00000443526 Reactome Protein details: P59665 Human Recombinant Protein Products:
Gene Ontology (GO): 5 cellular component terms (GO ID links to tree view): About this table
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Protein
Domains / Families for DEFA1B gene(According to InterPro, ProtoNet,
UniProtKB, and/or BLOCKS,
Sets of similar genes according to GeneDecks)
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DEFA1B for domains About GeneDecksing
4 InterPro domains/families:Graphical View of Domain Structure for InterPro Entry P59665ProtoNet protein and cluster: P59665 1 Blocks protein family: IPB002366 Defensin propeptide
UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot: DEF1_HUMAN, P59665Similarity: Belongs to the alpha-defensin family |
Function for DEFA1B gene
(According to 1UniProtKB,
Genatlas,
LifeMap Discovery™,
IUBMB, and/or
2DME,
Human phenotypes from GenomeRNAi,
Animal models from MGI Mar 06 2013,
bound targets from SABiosciences,
miRNA Gene Targets from miRTarBase
shRNA from
OriGene,
RNAi from
EMD Millipore,
siRNAs from
OriGene,
QIAGEN,
microRNA from QIAGEN,
Gene Editing from DNA2.0,
Clones from EMD Millipore,
OriGene,
SwitchGear Genomics,
GenScript,
Sino Biological,
DNA2.0,
and Vector BioLabs,
Cell Lines from GenScript,
LifeMap BioReagents,
In Situ Hybridization Assays from Advanced Cell Diagnostics,
Ontologies according to Gene Ontology Consortium 01 Mar 2013 via
Entrez Gene.)
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| Function Summary: UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot: DEF1_HUMAN, P59665Function: Defensin 1 and defensin 2 have antibacterial, fungicide and antiviral activities. Has antimicrobial activityagainst Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. Defensins are thought to kill microbes by permeabilizing theirplasma membrane
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Pathways & Interactions for DEFA1B gene
(Pathways according to
EMD Millipore,
R&D Systems,
Cell Signaling Technology,
KEGG,
PharmGKB,
BioSystems,
Reactome,
Tocris Bioscience,
GeneGo (Thomson Reuters),
QIAGEN,
and/or UniProtKB,
Sets of similar genes according to GeneDecks,
Interaction Networks according to
SABiosciences,
and/or STRING,
Interactions according to 1UniProtKB,
2MINT,
3I2D, and/or
4STRING,
with links to IntAct and
Ensembl,
Ontologies according to Gene Ontology Consortium 01 Mar 2013 via
Entrez Gene).
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| Unified GeneCards pathways  About this table  See pathways by source
| Super-pathway | contained gene-specific pathways |
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| 1 | Cellular roles of Anthrax toxin | |
Pathway sources See GeneCards unified pathways Show all pathways
1 BioSystems Pathway for DEFA1B 
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Reactome Pathways for DEFA1B (see all 6)
DEFA1B for pathways About GeneDecksing
Interactions:
Search SABiosciences Gene Network CentralTM Interacting Genes and Proteins Networks for DEFA1B
STRING Interaction
Network Preview (showing 4 interactants - click image to see more details)
 5/11 Interacting proteins for DEFA1B (P596652, 3 ENSP000003721364) via UniProtKB, MINT, STRING, and/or I2D (see all 11)About this table
Gene Ontology (GO): 5/8 biological process terms (GO ID links to tree view) (see all 8): About this table
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Drugs & Compounds for DEFA1B gene(Chemical Compounds according to UniProtKB, Enzo Life Sciences,
EMD Millipore, Tocris Bioscience
HMDB,
BitterDB, and/or
Novoseek, and Drugs according to
DrugBank,
Enzo Life Sciences, and/or
PharmGKB, with drugs/clinical trials/news
search links to CenterWatch)
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Transcripts for DEFA1B gene(Secondary structures according to
fRNAdb,
GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ Accessions according to
Unigene
(Build 235 Homo sapiens; Mar 10 2013) or GenBank, RefSeq according to Entrez Gene,
DOTS (version 10), and/or
AceView,
transcript ids from Ensembl
with links to UCSC,
exon structure from GeneLoc,
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ECgene,
RNAi Products from
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Tagged/untagged cDNA clones from
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GenScript,
DNA2.0,
Vector BioLabs,
Primers from
OriGene,
SABiosciences, and/or
QIAGEN
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| REFSEQ mRNAs for DEFA1B gene: NM_001042500.1 2 Ensembl transcripts including schematic representations, and UCSC links where relevant: ENST00000382689(uc003wqx.1) ENST00000535841
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Expression for DEFA1B gene
(RNA expression data according to
H-InvDB,
NONCODE,
miRBase, and
RNAdb,
Expression images according to data from
BioGPS,
Illumina Human BodyMap, and
CGAP
SAGE,
Sets of similar genes according to GeneDecks,
in vivo and in vitro expression data from LifeMap Discovery™,
plus additional links to
Genevestigator, and/or
SOURCE, and/or
BioGPS, and/or
UniProtKB,
PCR Arrays from
SABiosciences,
Primers from
OriGene,
SABiosciences, and/or
QIAGEN,
In Situ Hybridization Assays from Advanced Cell Diagnostics)
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| DEFA1B expression in normal human tissues (normalized intensities) See probesets specificity/sensitivity at GeneAnnot About this imageBioGPS CGAP TAG: --
About this image See DEFA1B Protein Expression from SPIRE MOPED and PaxDB Genevestigator expression for DEFA1B SABiosciences Custom PCR Arrays for DEFA1B
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Orthologs for DEFA1B gene
(Orthologs according to
1,2HomoloGene (2older version, for species not in 1newer version),
3euGenes,
4SGD
,
5MGI Mar 06 2013,
with possible further links to
Flybase
and/or
WormBase,
and/or
6Ensembl pan taxonomic compara ,
Gene Trees according to Ensembl and
TreeFam)
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ENSEMBL Gene Tree for DEFA1B (if available) TreeFam Gene Tree for DEFA1B (if available)  |
Paralogs for DEFA1B gene(Paralogs according to
1HomoloGene, 2Ensembl, and 3SIMAP, Pseudogenes according to 4Pseudogene.org Build 68) About This Section
| Paralogs for DEFA1B gene
- DEFA11 2 DEFA31 2 DEFA42 DEFA62 DEFA52
5 SIMAP similar genes for DEFA1B using alignment to 1 protein entry: DEF1_HUMAN:DEFA3 DEFA4 DEFA5 DEFA6 Em
DEFA1B for paralogs About GeneDecksing
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Genomic Variants for DEFA1B gene(SNPs/Variants according to the
1NCBI SNP Database,
2Ensembl,
3PupaSUITE,
UniProtKB, and
DNA2.0,
Linkage Disequilibrium by HapMap,
Structural Variations(CNVs/InDels/Inversions) from the Database of Genomic Variants, Mutations from the Human Gene
Mutation Database (HGMD) and the Locus Specific Mutation
Databases (LSDB), Blood group antigen gene mutations by BGMUT,
Resequencing Primers from QIAGEN,
Cancer Mutation PCR Arrays and Assays and Copy Number PCR Arrays from SABiosciences)
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| Genomic Data | Transcription Related Data | Allele Frequencies | | SNP ID | Valid | Clinical significance | Chr 8 pos | Sequence | # | AA Chg | Type | More | # | Allele freq | Pop | Total sample | More |
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HapMap Linkage Disequilibrium report for DEFA1B (6854288 - 6875778 bp)
Structural Variations (Copy Number Variations, Insertions/Deletions, Inversions) Database of Genomic Variants (DGV): 18 variations for DEFA1B 15/18 CNVs (see all 18): 36854 31422 36853 0629 1442 4577 95200 36850 23226 95199 36849 70242 36858 82441 8592  | SABiosciences Cancer Mutation PCR Assays |
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Disorders
/ Diseases for DEFA1B gene
(in which this Gene is Involved, According to MalaCards,
OMIM, UniProtKB,
the University of Copenhagen DISEASES
database,
Genatlas, GeneTests,
GAD,
HuGE Navigator,
and/or TGDB.)
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Publications for DEFA1B gene (in
PubMed.
Associations of this gene to articles via
1Entrez Gene,
2UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot,
3HGNC,
4GAD,
5PharmGKB,
6HMDB,
7DrugBank,
8UniProtKB/TrEMBL,
9 Novoseek, and/or
10fRNAdb)
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PubMed articles for DEFA1B gene, integrated from 9 sources (see all 23): (articles sorted by number of sources associating them with DEFA1B) | |  | Utopia: connect your pdf to the dynamic world of online information |
- Toward understanding the cationicity of defensins. Arg and Lys versus their noncoded analogs. (PubMed id 17452329)1, 2 Zou G....Lu W. (2007)
- Antibacterial activity and specificity of the six human {alpha}-defensins. (PubMed id 15616305)1, 2 Ericksen B....Lehrer R.I. (2005)
- Copy number polymorphism and expression level variation of the human alpha-defensin genes DEFA1 and DEFA3. (PubMed id 15944200)1, 3 Aldred P.M....Armour J.A. (2005)
- The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). (PubMed id 15489334)1, 2 Gerhard D.S....Malek J. (2004)
- Signal peptide prediction based on analysis of experimentally verified cleavage sites. (PubMed id 15340161)1, 2 Zhang Z. and Henzel W.J. (2004)
- Inheritance of unequal numbers of the genes encoding the human neutrophil defensins HP-1 and HP-3. (PubMed id 8530462)1, 2 Mars W.M....Saunders G.F. (1995)
- The structure of neutrophil defensin genes. (PubMed id 8325384)1, 2 Linzmeier R....Ganz T. (1993)
- The structure of neutrophil defensin genes. (PubMed id 8477861)1, 2 Linzmeier R.... Ganz T. (1993)
- NMR studies of defensin antimicrobial peptides. 1. Resonance assignment and secondary structure determination of rabbit NP-2 and human HNP-1. (PubMed id 1445872)1, 2 Zhang X.-L.... Pardi A. (1992)
- NMR studies of defensin antimicrobial peptides. 2. Three-dimensional structures of rabbit NP-2 and human HNP-1. (PubMed id 1445873)1, 2 Pardi A.... Yip P.F. (1992)
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External Searches for DEFA1B gene
(in PubMed,
OMIM, and NCBI Bookshelf) About This Section
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Genome Databases showing DEFA1B gene
(According to
Entrez Gene,
HGNC,
AceView,
euGenes,
Ensembl,
miRBase,
ECgene,
Kegg,
and/or
H-InvDB)
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Other Databases showing DEFA1B gene
(According to HUGE)
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Specialized Databases showing DEFA1B gene(According to PharmGKB,
ATLAS, HORDE, IMGT, LEIDEN, UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, and/or UniProtKB/TrEMBL, Wikipedia and/or GeneReviews via UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot) About This Section
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| Name | Description |
| PharmGKB entry for DEFA1B | Pharmacogenomics, SNPs, Pathways |
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| Patent Information for DEFA1B gene: Search GeneIP for patents involving DEFA1B
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