MED8

Mediator complex subunit 8
Identifiers
Symbols MED8 ; ARC32
External IDs OMIM: 607956 MGI: 1915269 HomoloGene: 10560 GeneCards: MED8 Gene
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 112950 80509
Ensembl ENSG00000159479 ENSMUSG00000006392
UniProt Q96G25 Q9D7W5
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001001653 NM_001290688
RefSeq (protein) NP_001001653 NP_001277617
Location (UCSC) Chr 1:
43.38 – 43.39 Mb
Chr 4:
118.41 – 118.42 Mb
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Mediator of RNA polymerase II transcription subunit 8 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MED8 gene.[1][2][3]

Function

This gene encodes a protein that is one of more than 20 subunits of the mediator complex, first identified in S. cerevisiae, that is required for activation of transcription. The product of this gene also interacts with elongins B and C, and CUL2 and RBX1, to reconstitute a ubiquitin ligase. Five alternative transcripts encoding four isoforms have been described.[3]

Interactions

MED8 has been shown to interact with MED26.[4]

References

  1. Brower CS, Sato S, Tomomori-Sato C, Kamura T, Pause A, Stearman R, Klausner RD, Malik S, Lane WS, Sorokina I, Roeder RG, Conaway JW, Conaway RC (Aug 2002). "Mammalian mediator subunit mMED8 is an Elongin BC-interacting protein that can assemble with Cul2 and Rbx1 to reconstitute a ubiquitin ligase". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99 (16): 10353–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.162424199. PMC 124918. PMID 12149480.
  2. Jiang YW, Veschambre P, Erdjument-Bromage H, Tempst P, Conaway JW, Conaway RC, Kornberg RD (Aug 1998). "Mammalian mediator of transcriptional regulation and its possible role as an end-point of signal transduction pathways". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95 (15): 8538–43. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.15.8538. PMC 21111. PMID 9671713.
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: MED8 mediator of RNA polymerase II transcription, subunit 8 homolog (S. cerevisiae)".
  4. Sato S, Tomomori-Sato C, Parmely TJ, Florens L, Zybailov B, Swanson SK, Banks CA, Jin J, Cai Y, Washburn MP, Conaway JW, Conaway RC (Jun 2004). "A set of consensus mammalian mediator subunits identified by multidimensional protein identification technology". Mol. Cell 14 (5): 685–91. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2004.05.006. PMID 15175163.

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