antimicrobial humoral immune response mediated by antimicrobial peptide
killing of cells of other organism
antibacterial humoral response
defense response to Gram-negative bacterium
defense response to Gram-positive bacterium
membrane disruption in other organism
cellular response to lipopolysaccharide
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Orthologs
Species
Human
Mouse
Entrez
1668
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Ensembl
ENSG00000239839 ENSG00000284835
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UniProt
P59666
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RefSeq (mRNA)
NM_005217
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RefSeq (protein)
NP_005208
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Location (UCSC)
Chr 8: 7.02 – 7.02 Mb
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PubMed search
[2]
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Wikidata
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Defensin, alpha 3 (DEFA3) also known as human alpha defensin 3, human neutrophil peptide 3 (HNP-3) or neutrophil defensin 3 is a human protein that is encoded by the DEFA3gene.[3] Human alpha defensin 3 belongs to the alpha defensin family of antimicrobialpeptides.
Function
Defensins are a family of microbicidal and cytotoxic peptides thought to be involved in host defense. They are abundant in the granules of neutrophils and also found in the epithelia of mucosal surfaces such as those of the intestine, respiratory tract, urinary tract, and vagina. Members of the defensin family are highly similar in protein sequence and distinguished by a conserved cysteine motif. Several alpha defensin genes are clustered on chromosome 8. The protein encoded by this gene, defensin, alpha 3, is found in the microbicidal granules of neutrophils and likely plays a role in phagocyte-mediated host defense. Several alpha defensin genes are clustered on chromosome 8. This peptide differs from defensin, alpha 1 by only one amino acid. This gene and the gene encoding defensin, alpha 1 are both subject to copy number variation.[3]
^"Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ ab"Entrez Gene: defensin".
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. S2CID 29257427.
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. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
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.
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PDB gallery
1zmh: Crystal structure of human neutrophil peptide 2, HNP-2 (variant Gly16-> D-Ala)
1zmk: Crystal structure of human alpha-defensin-2 (variant Gly16-> D-ALA), P 42 21 2 space group
2pm4: Human alpha-defensin 1 (multiple Arg->Lys mutant)
2pm5: Human alpha-defensin 1 derivative (HNP1)
1dfn: CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF DEFENSIN HNP-3, AN AMPHIPHILIC DIMER: MECHANISMS OF MEMBRANE PERMEABILIZATION
2pm1: Derivative of human alpha-defensin 1 (HNP1)
1zmi: Crystal structure of human alpha_defensin-2 (variant GLY16->D-ALA), P 32 2 1 space group )