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OAS1
Mammalian protein found in Homo sapiens

2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthetase 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the OAS1 gene.

This gene encodes a member of the 2-5A synthetase family, which include essential proteins involved in the innate immune response to viral infection.

The encoded protein is induced by interferons and uses adenosine triphosphate in 2'-specific nucleotidyl transfer reactions to synthesize 2',5'-oligoadenylates (2-5As). These molecules activate latent RNase L, which results in both viral and endogenous RNA degradation and the inhibition of viral replication. The three known members of this gene family are located in a cluster on chromosome 12. Hypomorphic mutations in this gene have been associated with host susceptibility to viral infection, while gain-of-function variants can cause autoinflammatory immunodeficiency. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been described.

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References

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  2. Nechiporuk T, Nechiporuk A, Sahba S, Figueroa K, Shibata H, Chen XN, et al. (September 1997). "A high-resolution PAC and BAC map of the SCA2 region". Genomics. 44 (3): 321–329. doi:10.1006/geno.1997.4886. PMID 9325053. /wiki/Doi_(identifier)

  3. Magg T, Okano T, Koenig LM, Boehmer DF, Schwartz SL, Inoue K, et al. (June 2021). "Heterozygous OAS1 gain-of-function variants cause an autoinflammatory immunodeficiency". Science Immunology. 6 (60): eabf9564. doi:10.1126/sciimmunol.abf9564. PMC 8392508. PMID 34145065. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8392508

  4. "Entrez Gene: OAS1 2',5'-oligoadenylate synthetase 1, 40/46kDa". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=4938