ID:REC8_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Meiotic recombination protein REC8 homolog; AltName: Full=Cohesin Rec8p; FUNCTION: Required during meiosis for separation of sister chromatids and homologous chromosomes. Proteolytic cleavage of REC8 on chromosome arms by separin during anaphase I allows for homologous chromosome separation in meiosis I and cleavage of REC8 on centromeres during anaphase II allows for sister chromatid separation in meiosis II (By similarity). SUBUNIT: Interacts (phosphorylated and unphosphorylated form) with SMC3. Interacts with SYCP3. Interacts (phosphorylated and unphosphorylated form) with SMC1B. Does not interact with SMC1A. Interacts with RAD51 (By similarity). SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: Nucleus (By similarity). Chromosome (By similarity). Note=In meiotic chromosomes, localized along axial elements in prophase from the leptotene to diplotene stages. At later prophase stages, diakinesis and metaphase I, localized along interstitial axes of chromosomes including both centromere and arm regions. No longer detected in arm regions in anaphase I but persists on centromere regions until metaphase II (By similarity). TISSUE SPECIFICITY: Expressed in testis and thymus. PTM: Phosphorylated (By similarity). SIMILARITY: Belongs to the rad21 family.
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on O95072
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.
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