Protein / target
Proteasome subunit beta type-6
Protein at a glance
Biological role
Threonine-type endopeptidase
Strongest disease association
Multiple Myeloma
Therapeutic position
Established drug target
Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.
Protein profile
Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.
Function overview
Component of the 20S core proteasome complex involved in the proteolytic degradation of most intracellular proteins.
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Component of the 20S core proteasome complex involved in the proteolytic degradation of most intracellular proteins. This complex plays numerous essential roles within the cell by associating with different regulatory particles. Associated with two 19S regulatory particles, forms the 26S proteasome and thus participates in the ATP-dependent degradation of ubiquitinated proteins. The 26S proteasome plays a key role in the maintenance of protein homeostasis by removing misfolded or damaged proteins that could impair cellular functions, and by removing proteins whose functions are no longer required. Associated with the PA200 or PA28, the 20S proteasome mediates ubiquitin-independent protein degradation. This type of proteolysis is required in several pathways including spermatogenesis (20S-PA200 complex) or generation of a subset of MHC class I-presented antigenic peptides (20S-PA28 complex). Within the 20S core complex, PSMB6 displays a peptidylglutamyl-hydrolizing activity also termed postacidic or caspase-like activity, meaning that the peptides bond hydrolysis occurs directly after acidic residues
Subcellular location
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Gene Ontology
- Ccytoplasm
- Ccytosol
- Cextracellular exosome
- Cnucleoplasm
- Cnucleus
- Cproteasome complex
- Cproteasome core complex
- Cproteasome core complex, beta-subunit complex
- Cproteasome storage granule
- Csynaptic vesicle
- Fcadherin binding
- Fendopeptidase activity
Biological roles
What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.
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Cell-cycle regulation
- ·regulation of G1/S transition of mitotic cell cycle
Proteolysis
- ·Component of the 20S core proteasome complex involved in the proteolytic degradation of…
- ·endopeptidase activity
- ·threonine-type endopeptidase activity
Apoptosis & cell death
- ·Component of the 20S core proteasome complex involved in the proteolytic degradation of…
- ·apoptotic process
Concepts derived from UniProt GO Reactome — each badge above shows which sources supported that role.
Approved medicines with mapped indications
Approved therapies targeting this protein, grouped by what they are approved to treat — the disease-first view of the medicines below. Relationships come from the canonical approved-indication graph (ChEMBL phase-4), the same source as the drug cards.
5 medicines meet Open Targets' target-level approved-medicine definition; the 3 shown here are those on this page with a canonical approved disease indication in the graph. Approved indications from ChEMBL (phase-4), via the canonical drug→disease graph.
Drugs targeting this protein
How approved and investigational drugs engage this protein — mechanism and action type, direct vs complex targeting, and how broadly each acts across other targets. A drug-first view (the section above groups the approved ones disease-first); direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.
26S proteasome inhibitor
ChEMBL mechanism, action type, target identity and approved indications. Open Targets clinical status.
Translational evidence
Why this target matters therapeutically, strongest evidence first. Disease associations are gene-level (via the gene that encodes this protein) and open into the full confidence synthesis; the development universe, tractability and safety annotations are target-level, from Open Targets.
Strongest disease associations · via encoding gene PSMB6
Gene-level evidence surfaced through the gene PSMB6that encodes this protein — not a direct protein–disease relationship. Ranked by Forefront's causal-directness weighting, so genetically- and clinically-evidenced diseases lead over ones that merely share the literature.
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The evidence agreement range shows how closely the independent evidence families agree — it is not a statistical confidence interval, and nothing here is fitted to outcome data. Derived from Open Targets evidence types under Forefront weighting; the per-type scores above show the calculation.
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Drug development
7 compounds recorded · 5 approved · 2 in clinical development
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Open Targets known-drugs universe. Drug name and highest clinical stage only — the disease relationship is NOT read from this slice (it carries trial-context noise); approved indications come from the canonical graph above.
Tractability
Small molecules — Strong
Protein degraders — Emerging
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Raw Open Targets tractability assessment buckets, by modality.
Clinical trials
Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein. Ranked by active status, then clinical phase and recency, and spread across the targeting drugs.
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ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.
What's happening now
Recent therapeutic activity around this target — regulatory actions, clinical trials and safety signals for 2 drugs that target this protein, plus publications where such a drug is a genuine subject. Every item is reached indirectly through the drug, not the protein itself; incidental mentions (a paper that merely measures a drug) and press items are excluded.
- Trial status changed
A Phase 3b, Multicenter, Open-label, Daratumumab Long-term Extension Study
- Trial status changed
64407564MMY3009: A Phase 3 Randomized Study Comparing Talquetamab in Combination With Pomalidomide (Tal-P), Talquetamab in Combination With Teclistamab (Tal-Tec), and Investigator's Choice of Either Elotuzumab, Pomalidomide, and Dexamethasone (EPd) or Pom
- Regulatory approval
Approval: CARFILZOMIB (ANDA209526)
- Withdrawn from market
Market withdrawal: Bortezomib Hospira (EMA)
- Safety communication
Drug Safety Update: Carfilzomib (Kyprolis▼): risk of reactivation of hepatitis B virus
- Safety communication
Drug Safety Update: Carfilzomib (Kyprolis▼): reminder of risk of potentially fatal cardiac events
- Accelerated approval granted
Accelerated approval: Kyprolis (EMA)
- Regulatory approval
Approval: Bortezomib Accord (EMA)
- New publicationProteasome inhibition in myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myelogenous leukemia cell lines.
- New publicationWeekly bortezomib in combination with temsirolimus in relapsed or relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma: a multicentre, phase 1/2, open-label, dose-escalation study.
- New publicationPhase 2 trial of rituximab and bortezomib in patients with relapsed or refractory mantle cell and follicular lymphoma.
- New publicationPhase II trial of weekly bortezomib in combination with rituximab in relapsed or relapsed and refractory Waldenstrom macroglobulinemia.
Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.