| Name | tubulin beta 8B |
| Description | Predicted to enable GTP binding activity. Predicted to be a structural constituent of cytoskeleton. Predicted to be involved in microtubule cytoskeleton organization and mitotic cell cycle. Located in intercellular bridge; microtubule; and mitotic spindle. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Mar 2025] |
| Summary |
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These studies detail that only a minor fraction of Rab10 is activated by insulin, yet it is pivotal for the rapid exocytosis of GLUT4 as well as for sorting events in specialized secretory pathways."}, {"type": "fg", "children": [{"type": "fg_fs", "start_ref": "1", "end_ref": "6"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n"}]}, {"type": "t", "text": "\n\n"}, {"type": "p", "children": [{"type": "t", "text": "\nAdditional reports extend these findings by implicating kinase signaling—in particular, the actions of LRRK2—in modulating Rab10 phosphorylation and thereby influencing other aspects of vesicular trafficking. Under conditions of cellular stress and immune activation, phosphorylated Rab10 is critical not only for lysosomal secretion and macropinosome maturation (via effectors such as EHBP1/EHBP1L1) but also for contributing to the dynamics of neuronal retrograde signaling and synaptic function. 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| NCBI Gene ID | 260334 |
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TUBB8B has 405 functional associations with biological entities spanning 6 categories (functional term, phrase or reference, chemical, disease, phenotype or trait, cell line, cell type or tissue, gene, protein or microRNA, sequence feature) extracted from 17 datasets.
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| Dataset | Summary | |
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| CM4AI KOLF21J CRISPRi Gene Perturbation Atlas | gene perturbations changing expression of TUBB8B gene from the CM4AI KOLF21J CRISPRi Gene Perturbation Atlas dataset. | |
| COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 | cellular components containing TUBB8B protein from the COMPARTMENTS Curated Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| COMPARTMENTS Text-mining Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 | cellular components co-occuring with TUBB8B protein in abstracts of biomedical publications from the COMPARTMENTS Text-mining Protein Localization Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| DGIdb Drug Targets 2026 | interacting drugs for TUBB8B protein from the DGIdb Drug Targets 2026 dataset. | |
| DISEASES Text-mining Gene-Disease Association Evidence Scores 2025 | diseases co-occuring with TUBB8B gene in abstracts of biomedical publications from the DISEASES Text-mining Gene-Disease Assocation Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| GO Cellular Component Annotations 2025 | cellular components containing TUBB8B protein from the curated GO Cellular Component Annotations 2025 dataset. | |
| GO Molecular Function Annotations 2025 | molecular functions performed by TUBB8B gene from the curated GO Molecular Function Annotations 2025 dataset. | |
| GTEx eQTL 2025 | SNPs regulating expression of TUBB8B gene from the GTEx eQTL 2025 dataset. | |
| GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles 2023 | tissues with high or low expression of TUBB8B gene relative to other tissues from the GTEx Tissue Gene Expression Profiles 2023 dataset. | |
| JASPAR Predicted Human Transcription Factor Targets 2025 | transcription factors regulating expression of TUBB8B gene predicted using known transcription factor binding site motifs from the JASPAR Predicted Human Transcription Factor Targets dataset. | |
| KEGG Pathways 2026 | pathways involving TUBB8B protein from the KEGG Pathways 2026 dataset. | |
| Reactome Pathways 2024 | pathways involving TUBB8B protein from the Reactome Pathways 2024 dataset. | |
| Rummagene Transcription Factor Associations 2026 | transcription factors regulating expression of TUBB8B gene from the Rummagene Transcription Factor Associations 2026 dataset. | |
| RummaGEO Drug Perturbation Signatures | drug perturbations changing expression of TUBB8B gene from the RummaGEO Drug Perturbation Signatures dataset. | |
| RummaGEO Gene Perturbation Signatures | gene perturbations changing expression of TUBB8B gene from the RummaGEO Gene Perturbation Signatures dataset. | |
| TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 | tissues with high expression of TUBB8B protein in proteomics datasets from the TISSUES Experimental Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |
| TISSUES Text-mining Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 | tissues co-occuring with TUBB8B protein in abstracts of biomedical publications from the TISSUES Text-mining Tissue Protein Expression Evidence Scores 2025 dataset. | |