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Gene

CCT8

chaperonin containing TCP1 subunit 8

Summary

Cytogenetic location
21q21.3
Coordinates
Chromosome 21: 29,056,326–29,073,648 (GRCh38)
Exons
15 exons across 17.3 kb
Protein
548 amino acids
Also known as
Cctq, PRED71
Previous symbols
C21orf112
MANE Select transcript
ENST00000286788.9NM_006585.4
Locus type
Protein-coding
  • Very high
  • Confident
  • Low
  • Very low

Curated reports relevant to this gene

No Genome Test report reads CCT8 yet. The test sequences your whole genome, so your data includes it all the same.

How CCT8 is laid out

  • Coding sequence
  • Untranslated region
  • Intron
  • Direction of transcription
  • Stretches short reads find hard
Chromosome 21, with a bracket where CCT8 sits. CCT8 and 7 genes near it on chromosome 21, from 28,564,987 to 29,564,986.Chromosome 2121q21.3p13p12p11.2p11.1q11.1q11.2q21.1q21.2q21.3q22.11q22.12q22.13q22.2q22.328.6 Mb28.8 Mb29 Mb29.2 Mb29.4 MbHEMK2: 28,872,191–28,885,384, reverse strandHEMK2LTN1: 28,927,886–28,992,956, reverse strandLTN1RWDD2B: 29,003,761–29,019,374, reverse strandRWDD2BUSP16: 29,024,629–29,055,846, forward strandUSP16CCT8: 29,056,326–29,073,648, reverse strandCCT8MAP3K7CL: 29,077,060–29,175,889, forward strandMAP3K7CLBACH1: 29,194,071–29,630,751, forward strandBACH1GRIK1: 29,536,933–29,940,033, reverse strandGRIK1Diagram of CCT8: 15 exons on the reverse strand of chromosome 21Exon 15: 29,056,326–29,056,552, 227 basesExon 14: 29,060,541–29,060,660, 120 basesExon 13: 29,061,253–29,061,417, 165 basesExon 12: 29,061,496–29,061,567, 72 basesExon 11: 29,062,128–29,062,243, 116 basesExon 10: 29,062,328–29,062,415, 88 basesExon 9: 29,062,490–29,062,556, 67 basesExon 8: 29,063,352–29,063,530, 179 basesExon 7: 29,064,968–29,065,105, 138 basesExon 6: 29,066,716–29,066,777, 62 basesExon 5: 29,066,891–29,067,071, 181 basesExon 4: 29,067,556–29,067,705, 150 basesExon 3: 29,069,423–29,069,502, 80 basesExon 2: 29,070,247–29,070,337, 91 basesExon 1: 29,073,531–29,073,648, 118 bases15141210864215′3′

Exons of the gene's MANE Select transcript (release v1.5), from NCBI and EMBL-EBI, on the GRCh38 reference genome.

Chromosome bands from UCSC's GRCh38 ideogram (2022-10-29).

Nearby genes from Ensembl release 116, on GRCh38.

Exons make up 1.9 kb of the gene's 17.3 kb; 1,647 of those bases code for the protein.

Sequencing CCT8

1Low

How hard CCT8 is to sequence with short reads, out of 100

  • Mappability2.9%
  • Homology0%
  • Repeats0%
  • GC content0%
  • Reference coverage0%

External links

Where this comes from

  • HGNC: the gene's symbol, name, other symbols and location.
  • MANE Select v1.5, from NCBI and EMBL-EBI: the transcript, its exons and coding sequence.
  • The Genome in a Bottle genome stratifications, from NIST: the sequencing difficulty score.

Cite this page

APA

Dante Labs. (n.d.). CCT8 gene: chaperonin containing TCP1 subunit 8. Retrieved 17 October 2026, from https://dantelabs.com/genes/cct8

Vancouver

Dante Labs. CCT8 gene: chaperonin containing TCP1 subunit 8 [Internet]. [cited 17 October 2026]. Available from: https://dantelabs.com/genes/cct8

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