TUBA8

TUBA8
Identifiers
Aliases	TUBA8 , TUBAL2, tubulin alpha 8, CDCBM8, MACTHC2
External IDs	OMIM: 605742; MGI: 1858225; HomoloGene: 56766; GeneCards: TUBA8; OMA:TUBA8 - orthologs
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 22 (human) [1] Band 22q11.21 Start 18,110,100 bp [1] End 18,146,683 bp [1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 6 (mouse) [2] Band 6|6 F1 Start 121,187,655 bp [2] End 121,203,813 bp [2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in muscle of thigh gastrocnemius muscle apex of heart right auricle of heart left ventricle skeletal muscle tissue right hemisphere of cerebellum left testis Brodmann area 9 gonad Top expressed in muscle of thigh seminiferous tubule triceps brachii muscle temporal muscle medial head of gastrocnemius muscle sternocleidomastoid muscle digastric muscle right ventricle quadriceps femoris muscle vastus lateralis muscle More reference expression data BioGPS n/a
Gene ontology Molecular function nucleotide binding GTP binding structural constituent of cytoskeleton GTPase activity Cellular component cytoplasm microtubule cytoskeleton microtubule cytoskeleton Biological process microtubule-based process cytoskeleton organization microtubule cytoskeleton organization mitotic cell cycle Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 51807 53857 Ensembl ENSG00000183785 ENSMUSG00000030137 UniProt Q9NY65 Q9JJZ2 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_018943 NM_001193414 NM_017379 RefSeq (protein) NP_001180343 NP_061816 NP_059075 Location (UCSC) Chr 22: 18.11 – 18.15 Mb Chr 6: 121.19 – 121.2 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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Tubulin alpha-8 chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TUBA8 gene. ^{[5] [6] [7] [8]}

References

1. GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000183785 – Ensembl, May 2017
2. GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000030137 – Ensembl, May 2017
3. "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
4. "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
5. Stanchi F, Corso V, Scannapieco P, Ievolella C, Negrisolo E, Tiso N, Lanfranchi G, Valle G (May 2000). "TUBA8: A new tissue-specific isoform of alpha-tubulin that is highly conserved in human and mouse". Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 270 (3): 1111–8. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.2571. PMID   10772959.
6. Dunham I, Shimizu N, Roe BA, Chissoe S, Hunt AR, Collins JE, Bruskiewich R, Beare DM, Clamp M, Smink LJ, Ainscough R, Almeida JP, Babbage A, Bagguley C, Bailey J, Barlow K, Bates KN, Beasley O, Bird CP, Blakey S, Bridgeman AM, Buck D, Burgess J, Burrill WD, O'Brien KP, et al. (Dec 1999). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 22". Nature. 402 (6761): 489–95. Bibcode:1999Natur.402..489D. doi: 10.1038/990031 . PMID   10591208.
7. "Entrez Gene: TUBA8 tubulin, alpha 8".
8. "GeneCards: TUBA8 gene".

Further reading

• Alexandrova N, Niklinski J, Bliskovsky V, et al. (1995). "The N-terminal domain of c-Myc associates with alpha-tubulin and microtubules in vivo and in vitro". Mol. Cell. Biol. 15 (9): 5188–95. doi:10.1128/MCB.15.9.5188. PMC   230766 . PMID   7651436.
• Feierbach B, Nogales E, Downing KH, Stearns T (1999). "Alf1p, a CLIP-170 domain-containing protein, is functionally and physically associated with alpha-tubulin". J. Cell Biol. 144 (1): 113–24. doi:10.1083/jcb.144.1.113. PMC   2148126 . PMID   9885248.
• Herreros L, Rodríguez-Fernandez JL, Brown MC, et al. (2000). "Paxillin localizes to the lymphocyte microtubule organizing center and associates with the microtubule cytoskeleton". J. Biol. Chem. 275 (34): 26436–40. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M003970200 . hdl: 10261/135387 . PMID   10840040.
• Watts NR, Sackett DL, Ward RD, et al. (2000). "HIV-1 rev depolymerizes microtubules to form stable bilayered rings". J. Cell Biol. 150 (2): 349–60. doi:10.1083/jcb.150.2.349. PMC   2180222 . PMID   10908577.
• Germani A, Bruzzoni-Giovanelli H, Fellous A, et al. (2001). "SIAH-1 interacts with alpha-tubulin and degrades the kinesin Kid by the proteasome pathway during mitosis". Oncogene. 19 (52): 5997–6006. doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1204002 . PMID   11146551.
• Saugstad JA, Yang S, Pohl J, et al. (2002). "Interaction between metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 and alpha tubulin". J. Neurochem. 80 (6): 980–8. doi:10.1046/j.0022-3042.2002.00778.x. PMC   2925652 . PMID   11953448.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . PMC   139241 . PMID   12477932.
• Chen D, Wang M, Zhou S, Zhou Q (2004). "HIV-1 Tat targets microtubules to induce apoptosis, a process promoted by the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2 relative Bim". EMBO J. 21 (24): 6801–10. doi:10.1093/emboj/cdf683. PMC   139103 . PMID   12486001.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi: 10.1038/ng1285 . PMID   14702039.
• Xu Y, Kulkosky J, Acheampong E, et al. (2004). "HIV-1-mediated apoptosis of neuronal cells: Proximal molecular mechanisms of HIV-1-induced encephalopathy". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101 (18): 7070–5. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.7070X. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0304859101 . PMC   406467 . PMID   15103018.
• Campbell GR, Pasquier E, Watkins J, et al. (2005). "The glutamine-rich region of the HIV-1 Tat protein is involved in T-cell apoptosis". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (46): 48197–204. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M406195200 . PMID   15331610.
• Collins JE, Wright CL, Edwards CA, et al. (2005). "A genome annotation-driven approach to cloning the human ORFeome". Genome Biol. 5 (10): R84. doi: 10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r84 . PMC   545604 . PMID   15461802.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC   528928 . PMID   15489334.
• de Mareuil J, Carre M, Barbier P, et al. (2006). "HIV-1 Tat protein enhances microtubule polymerization". Retrovirology. 2: 5. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-2-5 . PMC   549075 . PMID   15691386.
• Giacca M (2006). "HIV-1 Tat, apoptosis and the mitochondria: a tubulin link?". Retrovirology. 2: 7. doi: 10.1186/1742-4690-2-7 . PMC   549042 . PMID   15698476.
• Valenzuela-Fernández A, Alvarez S, Gordon-Alonso M, et al. (2006). "Histone deacetylase 6 regulates human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection". Mol. Biol. Cell. 16 (11): 5445–54. doi:10.1091/mbc.E05-04-0354. PMC   1266439 . PMID   16148047.
• Canani RB, De Marco G, Passariello A, et al. (2006). "Inhibitory effect of HIV-1 Tat protein on the sodium-D-glucose symporter of human intestinal epithelial cells". AIDS. 20 (1): 5–10. doi: 10.1097/01.aids.0000198088.85572.68 . PMID   16327313. S2CID   21499158.