HPR (gene)
Haptoglobin-related protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HPR gene.[3][4][5] The HPR gene affects hereditary immunity to a non-pathogenic species of African trypanosomes.[6]
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Further reading
- Erickson LM, Kim HS, Maeda N (1993). "Junctions between genes in the haptoglobin gene cluster of primates.". Genomics. 14 (4): 948–58. PMID 1478675. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80116-8.
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- Bensi G, Raugei G, Klefenz H, Cortese R (1985). "Structure and expression of the human haptoglobin locus.". EMBO J. 4 (1): 119–26. PMC 554159 . PMID 4018023.
- Hillier LD, Lennon G, Becker M, et al. (1997). "Generation and analysis of 280,000 human expressed sequence tags.". Genome Res. 6 (9): 807–28. PMID 8889549. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.807.
- Tabak S, Lev A, Valansi C, et al. (1997). "Transcriptionally active haptoglobin-related (Hpr) gene in hepatoma G2 and leukemia molt-4 cells.". DNA Cell Biol. 15 (11): 1001–7. PMID 8945641. doi:10.1089/dna.1996.15.1001.
- Muranjan M, Nussenzweig V, Tomlinson S (1998). "Characterization of the human serum trypanosome toxin, haptoglobin-related protein.". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (7): 3884–7. PMID 9461571. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.7.3884.
- Raper J, Fung R, Ghiso J, et al. (1999). "Characterization of a novel trypanosome lytic factor from human serum.". Infect. Immun. 67 (4): 1910–6. PMC 96545 . PMID 10085035.
- Loftus BJ, Kim UJ, Sneddon VP, et al. (1999). "Genome duplications and other features in 12 Mb of DNA sequence from human chromosome 16p and 16q.". Genomics. 60 (3): 295–308. PMID 10493829. doi:10.1006/geno.1999.5927.
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- Hatada S, Seed JR, Barker C, et al. (2002). "No trypanosome lytic activity in the sera of mice producing human haptoglobin-related protein.". Mol. Biochem. Parasitol. 119 (2): 291–4. PMID 11814582. doi:10.1016/S0166-6851(01)00420-0.
- Vanhollebeke B, Nielsen MJ, Watanabe Y, et al. (2007). "Distinct roles of haptoglobin-related protein and apolipoprotein L-I in trypanolysis by human serum.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 (10): 4118–23. PMC 1820718 . PMID 17360487. doi:10.1073/pnas.0609902104.
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