PSMA5

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 peptidase T1A family, that is a 20S core alpha subunit. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding two distinct isoforms have been found for this gene. [provided by RefSeq, Dec 2010]

Description

proteasome (prosome, macropain) subunit, alpha type, 5

Protein family

Enzymes, Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT, Peptidases

Chromosome

1:p13.3 (109941653 - 109969062)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000143106  (ver. 71.37)

Orthologs

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Human splice variants