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PSMB8 (Proteasome subunit beta type-8) is an enzyme. The public catalogues list it as a drug target and a biomarker, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Multiple myeloma, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma and 1 more. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

The proteasome is a multicatalytic proteinase complex which is characterised by its ability to cleave peptides with Arg, Phe, Tyr, Leu, and Glu adjacent to the leaving group at neutral or slightly basic pH. The proteasome has an ATP-dependent proteolytic activity. This subunit is involved in antigen processing to generate class I binding peptides. Replacement of PSMB5 by PSMB8 increases the capacity of the immunoproteasome to cleave model peptides after hydrophobic and basic residues. Involved in the generation of spliced peptides resulting from the ligation of two separate proteasomal cleavage products that are not contiguous in the parental protein. Acts as a major component of interferon gamma-induced sensitivity. Location: Cytoplasm; Nucleus (UniProt). Locus 6p21.32 (HGNC).

Where it is found
  • Multiple myeloma: Open Targets association 0.62 with plasma cell myeloma (MONDO_0009693)
  • Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer: CIViC evidence names this disease
  • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: Open Targets association 0.57 with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (MONDO_0018908)
  • Mantle cell lymphoma: Open Targets association 0.54 with mantle cell lymphoma (MONDO_0018876)
Class: enzyme · Gene: PSMB8 · Facts checked 2026-09-23 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"PSMB8" OR ABSTRACT:"PSMB8" OR TITLE:"proteasome 20S subunit beta 8" OR ABSTRACT:"proteasome 20S subunit beta 8" OR TITLE:"Proteasome subunit beta type-8" OR ABSTRACT:"Proteasome subunit beta type-8" OR TITLE:"RING10" OR ABSTRACT:"RING10" OR TITLE:"D6S216E" OR ABSTRACT:"D6S216E" OR TITLE:"PSMB5i" OR ABSTRACT:"PSMB5i") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about PSMB8, not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/psmb8.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.