{"symbol":"PSMA6","synonyms":["IOTA","P27K","PROS27"],"name":"proteasome (prosome, macropain) subunit, alpha type, 6","description":"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 transcript variants encoding several different isoforms have been found for this gene. A pseudogene has been identified on the Y chromosome. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2013]","ncbiEntrezGeneId":5687,"ncbiEntrezGeneUrl":"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/5687","proteins":[{"symbol":"PSA6_HUMAN","href":"/api/1.0/protein/PSA6_HUMAN"}],"hgncRootFamilies":[{"name":"Proteasome (prosome, macropain) subunits (PSM)","href":"/api/1.0/gene_family/Proteasome+%28prosome%2C+macropain%29+subunits+%28PSM%29"}]}