Interferon regulatory factor 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IRF2 gene. [5]
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. [6]
IRF2 has been shown to interact with BRD7, [7] EP300 [8] and PCAF. [8] [9]
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