Protein Name ubiquitin protein ligase E3A
Organism Homo sapiens
Gene ID 7337
Gene Symbol

UBE3A

UniProt Q05086 (UBE3A_HUMAN), Q9H2G0 (Q9H2G0_HUMAN)
Relationships Total Number of functionally related compound(s) : 82
Total Number of Articles : 92
Description

ubiquitin protein ligase E3A

Gene Summary

This gene encodes an E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase, part of the ubiquitin protein degradation system. This imprinted gene is maternally expressed in brain and biallelically expressed in other tissues. Maternally inherited deletion of this gene causes Angelman Syndrome, characterized by severe motor and intellectual retardation, ataxia, hypotonia, epilepsy, absence of speech, and characteristic facies. The protein also interacts with the E6 protein of human papillomavirus types 16 and 18, resulting in ubiquitination and proteolysis of tumor protein p53. Alternative splicing of this gene results in three transcript variants encoding three isoforms with different N-termini. Additional transcript variants have been described, but their full length nature has not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

synonyms
  • ubiquitin-protein ligase E3A
  • CTCL tumor antigen se37-2
  • E6AP ubiquitin-protein ligase
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