U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Format

Send to:

Choose Destination

CENPA centromere protein A [ Macaca mulatta (Rhesus monkey) ]

Gene ID: 697312, updated on 12-Dec-2025
Official Symbol
CENPAprovided by VGNC
Official Full Name
centromere protein Aprovided by VGNC
Primary source
VGNC:VGNC:71005
Locus tag
EGK_05141
See related
Ensembl:ENSMMUG00000015934
Gene type
protein coding
RefSeq status
MODEL
Organism
Macaca mulatta
Lineage
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Cercopithecidae; Cercopithecinae; Macaca
Orthologs
all
Try the new Gene page
Try the new Transcripts and proteins table
See CENPA in Genome Data Viewer
Location:
chromosome: 13
Exon count:
5
Annotation release Status Assembly Chr Location
RS_2025_08 current T2T-MMU8v2.0 (GCF_049350105.2) 13 NC_133418.1 (98208748..98217738, complement)
103 previous assembly Mmul_10 (GCF_003339765.1) 13 NC_041766.1 (82178250..82186921, complement)

Chromosome 13 - NC_133418.1Genomic Context describing neighboring genes Neighboring gene dihydropyrimidinase like 5 Neighboring gene microRNA mir-548h Neighboring gene CDKN2AIP N-terminal-like protein pseudogene Neighboring gene uncharacterized LOC144333853 Neighboring gene solute carrier family 35 member F6 Neighboring gene potassium two pore domain channel subfamily K member 3

Go to nucleotide: Graphics FASTA GenBank

Related articles in PubMed

  1. Genome sequencing and comparison of two nonhuman primate animal models, the cynomolgus and Chinese rhesus macaques. Yan G, et al. Nat Biotechnol, 2011 Oct 16. PMID 22002653
  2. A new rhesus macaque assembly and annotation for next-generation sequencing analyses. Zimin AV, et al. Biol Direct, 2014 Oct 14. PMID 25319552, Free PMC Article
  3. Manual GO annotation of predictive protein signatures: the InterPro approach to GO curation. Burge S, et al. Database (Oxford), 2012. PMID 22301074, Free PMC Article
  4. TreeGrafter: phylogenetic tree-based annotation of proteins with Gene Ontology terms and other annotations. Tang H, et al. Bioinformatics, 2019 Feb 1. PMID 30032202, Free PMC Article

GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

Markers

Homology

Gene Ontology Provided by RefSeq

Function Evidence Code Pubs
enables DNA binding IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
 PubMed 
enables protein heterodimerization activity IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
 PubMed 
enables structural constituent of chromatin IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
 PubMed 
Component Evidence Code Pubs
part_of nucleosome IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
 PubMed 
Preferred Names
histone H3-like centromeric protein A

NEW Try the new Transcript table

RefSeqs of Annotated Genomes: GCF_049350105.2-RS_2025_08

The following sections contain reference sequences that belong to a specific genome build. Explain

Reference T2T-MMU8v2.0

Genomic

  1. NC_133418.1 Reference T2T-MMU8v2.0

    Range
    98208748..98217738 complement
    Download
    GenBank, FASTA, Sequence Viewer (Graphics)

mRNA and Protein(s)

  1. XM_001087306.5 → XP_001087306.1  histone H3-like centromeric protein A isoform X1

    See identical proteins and their annotated locations for XP_001087306.1

    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A0A5S6RC98, A0A8J8Y733, F7AJF7, F7AJX7
    Related
    ENSMMUP00000020971.3
    Conserved Domains (3) summary
    smart00428
    Location:32 → 135
    H3; Histone H3
    pfam00125
    Location:4 → 131
    Histone; Core histone H2A/H2B/H3/H4
    pfam16496
    Location:3 → 43
    SWIRM-assoc_2; SWIRM-associated domain at the N-terminal

  2. XM_077959988.1 → XP_077816114.1  histone H3-like centromeric protein A isoform X2

Nucleotide Protein
Heading Accession and Version

Gene LinkOut

The following LinkOut resources are supplied by external providers. These providers are responsible for maintaining the links.

Molecular Biology Databases
Research Materials