lmmol · Proteins

Proteasome subunit alpha-type 8

UniProt Q8TAA3 Organism Homo sapiens Gene PSMA7L, PSMA8

Also known as: PSMA7L, PSMA8

Function

Component of the spermatoproteasome, a proteasome specifically found in testis that promotes acetylation-dependent degradation of histones, thereby participating actively to the exchange of histones during spermatogenesis. The proteasome is a protein complex that degrades unneeded or damaged proteins by proteolysis, a chemical reaction that breaks peptide bonds. Required for 20S core proteasome assembly, essential for the degradation of meiotic proteins RAD51 and RPA1 at late prophase I and the progression of meiosis I during spermatogenesis. Localizes to the synaptonemal complex, a 'zipper'-like structure that holds homologous chromosome pairs in synapsis during meiotic prophase I.

Classification

Family (Pfam)
PF00227 Proteasome, PF10584 Proteasome_A_N
InterPro
Ntn_hydrolases_N, Proteasome_alpha, Proteasome_alpha-type, Proteasome_asu_N, Proteasome_sua/b
Functional cluster
Small GTPases (Ras/Rab) & related

Gene Ontology · 12

Drugs targeting this protein · 7

Related proteins · sequence + function similarity

Literature · 2 cited papers

A document in the lmmol reference corpus — open public data (UniProt, GO, PDB, the literature graph) rendered as a single cross-linked page. Hover any link to preview its target.