Chromobox protein homolog 8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CBX8 gene.
Enables methylated histone binding activity. Involved in negative regulation of transcription by RNA polymerase II. Located in chromatin and nucleoplasm. Part of PRC1 complex. Biomarker of esophagus squamous cell carcinoma and glioblastoma. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]
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Chromobox protein homolog 8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CBX8 gene.
==Interactions== CBX8 has been shown to interact with RING1 and MLLT1.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).