Mus musculus Protein: Hspb8
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-194613.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol Hspb8
Protein Name heat shock protein 8
Synonyms AU018630; AW413033; Cryac; D5Ucla4; E2IG1; H11; H11K; HSP20-like; HSP22;
Species Mus musculus
Ensembl Protein ENSMUSP00000037007
InnateDB Gene IDBG-194611 (Hspb8)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function Displays temperature-dependent chaperone activity.
Subcellular Localization Cytoplasm {ECO:0000250}. Nucleus {ECO:0000250}. Note=Translocates to nuclear foci during heat shock. {ECO:0000250}.
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity Highly expressed in skeletal muscle, heart, uterus, liver, lung and ovary. Low levels found in stomach and brain. Not detected in small intestine, large intestine, kidney, spleen and testis. In the ovary, expression is concentrated in the endometrium and in the connective tissue between the circular and longitudinal muscles of the myometrium. {ECO:0000269PubMed:11133685}.
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 1 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
They are also associated with 12 interaction(s) predicted by orthology.
Experimentally validated
Total 1 [view]
Protein-Protein 1 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Predicted by orthology
Total 12 [view]
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0005515 protein binding
GO:0042802 identical protein binding
Biological Process
GO:0006950 response to stress
Cellular Component
GO:0005622 intracellular
GO:0005634 nucleus
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID MGI:2135756
InterPro IPR001436 Alpha crystallin/Heat shock protein
IPR002068 Alpha crystallin/Hsp20 domain
IPR008978 HSP20-like chaperone
PFAM PF00011
PRINTS PR00299
PIRSF PIRSF036514
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt Q9JK92
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-Q9JK92
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 80888
UniGene Mm.21549
RefSeq NP_109629
MGI ID
MGI Symbol Hspb8
OMIM
CCDS CCDS19600
HPRD
IMGT
EMBL AF250139 AF273453 AK005052 BC011219
GenPept AAF65563 AAG00233 AAH11219 BAB23778