Organism | UniProt | Comment | Textmining |
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Mus musculus | Q9CWH6 | - |
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Source Tissue | Comment | Organism | Textmining |
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spermatocyte | subunit PSMA8-associated proteasomes are essential for the degradation of meiotic proteins and the progression of meiosis I during spermatogenesis | Mus musculus | - |
Synonyms | Comment | Organism |
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proteasome subunit alpha-type 7-like | - |
Mus musculus |
Psma8 | - |
Mus musculus |
General Information | Comment | Organism |
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physiological function | subunit PSMA8 is expressed in spermatocytes from the pachytene stage, and assembles a type of testis-specific core proteasome. Deletion of PSMA8 decreases the abundance of proteasome in testes. Meiotic proteins that are normally degraded at late prophase I, such as RAD51 and RPA1, remain stable in PSMA8-deleted spermatocytes. PSMA8-null spermatocytes exhibit delayed M-phase entry and are finally arrested at this stage, resulting in male infertility | Mus musculus |