Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

PSMB8

Proteasome subunit beta type-8

Also known as: beta5i, D6S216E, LMP7, PSB8_HUMAN, PSMB5i, RING10

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
P28062
Gene
PSMB8
Ensembl
ENSG00000204264
Chromosome
6
Canonical length
276 aa
Protein class
Disease related genes, Enzymes, FDA approved drug targets, Human disease related genes, Plasma proteins, Predicted intracellular proteins
Subcellular location
Vesicles,Cytokinetic bridge

OverviewNCBI Gene

The proteasome is a multicatalytic proteinase complex with a highly ordered ring-shaped 20S core structure. The core structure is composed of 4 rings of 28 non-identical subunits; 2 rings are composed of 7 alpha subunits and 2 rings are composed of 7 beta subunits. Proteasomes are distributed throughout eukaryotic cells at a high concentration and cleave peptides in an ATP/ubiquitin-dependent process in a non-lysosomal pathway. An essential function of a modified proteasome, the immunoproteasome, is the processing of class I MHC peptides. This gene encodes a member of the proteasome B-type family, also known as the T1B family, that is a 20S core beta subunit. This gene is located in the class II region of the MHC (major histocompatibility complex). Expression of this gene is induced by gamma interferon and this gene product replaces catalytic subunit 3 (proteasome beta 5 subunit) in the immunoproteasome. Proteolytic processing is required to generate a mature subunit. Two alternative transcripts encoding two isoforms have been identified; both isoforms are processed to yield the same mature subunit. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

276 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>P28062|PSMB8
     1  MALLDVCGAP RGQRPESALP VAGSGRRSDP GHYSFSMRSP ELALPRGMQP TEFFQSLGGD
    61  GERNVQIEMA HGTTTLAFKF QHGVIAAVDS RASAGSYISA LRVNKVIEIN PYLLGTMSGC
   121  AADCQYWERL LAKECRLYYL RNGERISVSA ASKLLSNMMC QYRGMGLSMG SMICGWDKKG
   181  PGLYYVDEHG TRLSGNMFST GSGNTYAYGV MDSGYRPNLS PEEAYDLGRR AIAYATHRDS
   241  YSGGVVNMYH MKEDGWVKVE STDVSDLLHQ YREANQ

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against PSMB8 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Intracellular
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
0
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.33
Highest tissue expression
140 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • spleen: 140 nTPM
  • liver: 93 nTPM
  • small intestine: 87 nTPM
  • colon: 76 nTPM
  • adrenal gland: 73 nTPM
  • lung: 73 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • enterocytes: 86 nCPM
  • megakaryocytes: 80 nCPM
  • breast lactating cells: 75 nCPM
  • platelets: 73 nCPM
  • plasma cells: 60 nCPM
  • enteric transient amplifying cells: 58 nCPM

Immune cell

  • total PBMC: 156 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 95 nTPM
  • neutrophil: 91 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 88 nTPM
  • T-reg: 82 nTPM
  • non-classical monocyte: 79 nTPM

Brain region

  • medulla oblongata: 3 nTPM
  • white matter: 2.8 nTPM
  • spinal cord: 2.4 nTPM
  • pons: 1.6 nTPM
  • thalamus: 1.5 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 1.3 nTPM

DiseaseUniProt · ClinVar · IEDB · PubMed

Four sources answering four different questions about PSMB8.

Disease | AllUniProt

Conditions PSMB8 is implicated in, by any mechanism.

Disease | GeneticClinVar

21 pathogenic / likely-pathogenic of 277 ClinVar records.

Conditions with pathogenic or likely-pathogenic variants.

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
0.78
gnomAD pLI
0.02
gnomAD missense Z
0.65
DepMap mean gene effect
0.03
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 5% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

InteractionsUniProt · HPA

Protein binding partners of PSMB8 in the human serome: UniProt-annotated complex subunits plus reported interactors. Each links to its own Seroatlas record.

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads PSMB8 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against PSMB8 could matter depends on whether native PSMB8 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

PSMB8 is annotated as predominantly intracellular. Intracellular proteins are common autoantibody markers, becoming visible to the immune system after cell injury or altered processing, but are usually markers of disease rather than direct drivers.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label PSMB8 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/PSMB8. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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