SIGLEC8

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Sialic acid binding Ig-like lectin 8
Identifiers
Symbol(s) SIGLEC8; MGC59785; SAF2; SIGLEC-8; SIGLEC8L
External IDs OMIM: 605639 HomoloGene87865
RNA expression pattern

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Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 27181 n/a
Ensembl ENSG00000105366 n/a
Uniprot Q9NYZ4 n/a
Refseq NM_014442 (mRNA)
NP_055257 (protein)
n/a (mRNA)
n/a (protein)
Location Chr 19: 56.65 - 56.65 Mb n/a
Pubmed search [1] n/a

Sialic acid binding Ig-like lectin 8, also known as SIGLEC8, is a human gene.[1] SIGLEC8 has also been designated as CD329 (cluster of differentiation 329).


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  • Floyd H, Ni J, Cornish AL, et al. (2000). "Siglec-8. A novel eosinophil-specific member of the immunoglobulin superfamily.". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (2): 861-6. PMID 10625619. 
  • Kikly KK, Bochner BS, Freeman SD, et al. (2000). "Identification of SAF-2, a novel siglec expressed on eosinophils, mast cells, and basophils.". J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 105 (6 Pt 1): 1093-100. PMID 10856141. 
  • Foussias G, Yousef GM, Diamandis EP (2001). "Molecular characterization of a Siglec8 variant containing cytoplasmic tyrosine-based motifs, and mapping of the Siglec8 gene.". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 278 (3): 775-81. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.3866. PMID 11095983. 
  • Munday J, Kerr S, Ni J, et al. (2001). "Identification, characterization and leucocyte expression of Siglec-10, a novel human sialic acid-binding receptor.". Biochem. J. 355 (Pt 2): 489-97. PMID 11284738. 
  • 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932. 
  • Nutku E, Aizawa H, Hudson SA, Bochner BS (2004). "Ligation of Siglec-8: a selective mechanism for induction of human eosinophil apoptosis.". Blood 101 (12): 5014-20. doi:10.1182/blood-2002-10-3058. PMID 12609831. 
  • 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. PMID 15489334. 
  • Bochner BS, Alvarez RA, Mehta P, et al. (2005). "Glycan array screening reveals a candidate ligand for Siglec-8.". J. Biol. Chem. 280 (6): 4307-12. doi:10.1074/jbc.M412378200. PMID 15563466. 
  • Nutku E, Hudson SA, Bochner BS (2005). "Mechanism of Siglec-8-induced human eosinophil apoptosis: role of caspases and mitochondrial injury.". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 336 (3): 918-24. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2005.08.202. PMID 16157303. 
  • Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, et al. (2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes.". Genome Res. 16 (1): 55-65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMID 16344560. 

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