MAGEA8

This gene is a member of the MAGEA gene family. The members of this family encode proteins with 50 to 80% sequence identity to each other. The promoters and first exons of the MAGEA genes show considerable variability, suggesting that the existence of this gene family enables the same function to be expressed under different transcriptional controls. The MAGEA genes are clustered at chromosomal location Xq28. They have been implicated in some hereditary disorders, such as dyskeratosis congenita. Multiple alternatively spliced variants, encoding the same protein, have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Oct 2009]

Description

MAGE family member A8

Tissue specificity

Tissue enriched (placenta)

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins

Chromosome

X (149881141 - 149885835)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000156009  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

-

UniProt

P43361

neXtProt

NX_P43361

Human splice variants

Protein structure