Glycophorin A

GYPA
Available structures PDB Human UniProt search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 1AFO, 2KPE, 2KPF, 5EH4, 5EH6
Identifiers
Aliases	GYPA, CD235a, GPA, GPErik, GPSAT, HGpMiV, HGpMiXI, HGpSta(C), MN, MNS, PAS-2, glycophorin A (MNS blood group)
External IDs	OMIM: 617922; HomoloGene: 48076; GeneCards: GYPA; OMA:GYPA - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 4 (human)[1] Band 4q31.21 Start 144,109,303 bp[1] End 144,140,751 bp[1]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in trabecular bone bone marrow bone marrow cells testicle monocyte blood Achilles tendon ganglionic eminence apex of heart spleen n/a More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function identical protein binding virus receptor activity protein binding Cellular component integral component of membrane plasma membrane membrane Biological process viral entry into host cell viral process leukocyte migration Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 2993 n/a Ensembl ENSG00000170180 n/a UniProt P02724 n/a RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001308187 NM_001308190 NM_002099 n/a RefSeq (protein) NP_001295116 NP_001295119 NP_002090 n/a Location (UCSC) Chr 4: 144.11 – 144.14 Mb n/a PubMed search [2] n/a
Wikidata
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Glycophorin A (MNS blood group), also known as GYPA, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the GYPA gene.^[3] GYPA has also recently been designated CD235a (cluster of differentiation 235a).