AmiGO 2: Term Details for "interferon binding" (GO:0019961)

Accession: GO:0019961
Name: interferon binding
Ontology: molecular_function
Synonyms: IFN binding
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: Binding to an interferon, a protein produced by the immune systems of many animals in response to a challenge by a foreign agent. Source: PMID:9607096, Wikipedia:Interferon
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0019961 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to interferon binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to interferon binding (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for interferon binding (excluding "regulates").

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For more information, please see the ontology relation documentation.

subject	relation	object
interferon binding	is_a	cytokine binding (GO:0019955)

subject	relation	object
type I interferon binding (GO:0019962)	is_a	interferon binding
interferon receptor activity (GO:0004904)	BFO:0000051	interferon binding
type II interferon binding (GO:0019964)	is_a	interferon binding
type III interferon binding (GO:0034347)	is_a	interferon binding

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