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Homo sapiens Protein: MAGEA8
Summary
InnateDB Protein IDBP-601716.3
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol MAGEA8
Protein Name melanoma antigen family A, 8
Synonyms CT1.8; MAGE8;
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Protein ENSP00000438293
InnateDB Gene IDBG-88679 (MAGEA8)
Protein Structure
UniProt Annotation
Function Not known, though may play a role in embryonal development and tumor transformation or aspects of tumor progression.
Subcellular Localization
Disease Associations
Tissue Specificity Expressed in many tumors of several types, such as melanoma, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, lung carcinoma and breast carcinoma, but not in normal tissues except for testis and placenta.
Comments
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 2 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 2 [view]
Protein-Protein 2 [view]
Protein-DNA 0
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0003674 molecular_function
Biological Process
GO:0008150 biological_process
Cellular Component
GO:0005575 cellular_component
Protein Structure and Domains
PDB ID
InterPro IPR002190 MAGE protein
IPR021072 Melanoma associated antigen, MAGE, N-terminal
PFAM PF01454
PF12440
PRINTS
PIRSF
SMART
TIGRFAMs
Post-translational Modifications
Modification
Cross-References
SwissProt P43361
PhosphoSite PhosphoSite-P43361
TrEMBL
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 4107
UniGene Hs.522803
RefSeq NP_001159872
HUGO HGNC:6806
OMIM 300341
CCDS CCDS14692
HPRD 02278
IMGT
EMBL AC016941 BC002455 BC012744 BT007340 CH471169 U10693
GenPept AAA68876 AAH02455 AAH12744 AAP36004 EAW99373

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Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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