interferon regulatory factor 2|IRF2 encodes interferon regulatory factor 2, a member of the interferon regulatory transcription factor (IRF) family. IRF2 competitively inhibits the IRF1-mediated transcriptional activation of interferons alpha and beta, and presumably other genes that employ IRF1 for transcription activation. However, IRF2 also functions as a transcriptional activator of histone H4. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008] (NCBI Entrez Gene Database, 3660)
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25 genes co-occuring with the biological term irf2 in literature-supported statements describing functions of genes from the GeneRIF Biological Term Annotations dataset.