CAPN8
Sign in to saveAlso known as nCL-2, calpain 8
Calpain-8 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the CAPN8 gene.
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Vinony's link graph records 122 inbound references to CAPN8, and connects out to human chromosome 1, Ensembl genome database project and protein.
It is catalogued under topics including Genes on human chromosome 1 and Human proteins.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
Gene data
CAPN8- Name
- calpain 8
- Type
- protein-coding
- Position
- 223,538,007–223,665,737 (−)
- Aliases
- nCL-2
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000203697
- RefSeq RNA
- NM_001143962.2, XM_017001265.2, XM_017001266.2, XM_017001267.3, XM_017001268.2
- RefSeq protein
- NP_001137434.1, XP_016856754.1, XP_016856755.1, XP_016856756.1, XP_016856757.1
Predicted to enable calcium-dependent cysteine-type endopeptidase activity and identical protein binding activity. Predicted to be involved in proteolysis. Predicted to act upstream of or within calcium-dependent self proteolysis. Predicted to be located in Golgi apparatus. Predicted to be active in cytoplasm. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]
Gene Ontology
Biological process
Molecular function
Cellular component
via MyGene.info
Gene · Ensembl
calpain 8
- Symbol
- CAPN8
- Biotype
- Protein coding
- Organism
- Homo sapiens
- Location
- 1:223,538,007-223,665,737
- Strand
- Reverse (−)
- Assembly
- GRCh38
via Ensembl · EMBL-EBI
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- gene
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- HomoloGene ID
- 15643
- found in taxon
- Homo sapiens
- exact match
- identifiers.org/ncbigene/388743
- genomic end
- 223665723
- genomic start
- 223711349
- chromosome
- human chromosome 1
- cytogenetic location
- 1q41
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Encyclopedic overview
2 sectionsContents
- References
- Further reading
Calpain-8 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the CAPN8 gene.
== References ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “CAPN8” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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