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Mouse (GRCm39)
Description

CD8 subunit alpha [Source:MGI Symbol;Acc:MGI:88346]

Gene Synonyms

Ly-2, Ly-35, Ly-B, Lyt-2

Location
About this transcript

This transcript has 5 exons, is annotated with 33 domains and features, is associated with 749 variant alleles and maps to 300 oligo probes.

Transcript IDNamebpProteinTranslation IDBiotypeCCDSUniProt MatchFlags
ENSMUST00000066747.14Cd8a-2013128247aaENSMUSP00000068123.8
 
Protein coding
CCDS39507P01731-1 Ensembl CanonicalGENCODE PrimaryGENCODE BasicAPPRIS P2TSL:1
ENSMUST00000172321.3Cd8a-2022975222aaENSMUSP00000131873.2
 
Protein coding
CCDS51806Q8CAX3 GENCODE PrimaryGENCODE BasicAPPRIS ALT2TSL:1
ENSMUST00000205054.2Cd8a-2031950No protein-
 
Retained intron
-TSL:1
Statistics

Exons: 5, Coding exons: 5, Transcript length: 3,128 bps, Translation length: 247 residues

Uniprot

This transcript corresponds to the following Uniprot identifiers: P01731

CCDS

This transcript is a member of the Mouse CCDS set: CCDS39507

Transcript Support Level (TSL)

TSL:1

Version

ENSMUST00000066747.14

Type

Protein coding

Annotation Method

Transcript where the Ensembl genebuild transcript and the Havana manual annotation have the same sequence, for every base pair. See article.

GENCODE basic gene

This transcript is a member of the Gencode basic gene set.

GENCODE primary gene

This transcript is a member of the Gencode Primary gene set.