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Homo sapiens Protein: HBA2
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-234556.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol HBA2
Protein Name hemoglobin, alpha 2
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000380908
InnateDB Gene IDBG-7023 (HBA2)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function
Subcellular Localization
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 16 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 2 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Experimentally validated
Total 16 [view]
Protein-Protein 16 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Predicted by orthology
Total 2 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005344 oxygen transporter activity
GO:0005506 iron ion binding
GO:0019825 oxygen binding
GO:0020037 heme binding
Biological Process
GO:0015671 oxygen transport
Cellular Component
GO:0005833 hemoglobin complex
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR000971 Globin
IPR002338 Haemoglobin, alpha
IPR009050 Globin-like
PFAM PF00042
PRINTS PR00612
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-
TrEMBL U6A493
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 3040
UniGene
RefSeq
HUGO HGNC:4824
OMIM 141860
CCDS
HPRD 00785
IMGT
EMBL CH471112 J00157 KF372023 KF372024 KF372026 V00492 Z84721
GenPept AAA52632 AHA12102 AHA12103 AHA12105 CAA23751 EAW85862

If you use InnateDB for your research, please cite the following publication:

Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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