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KRT8: keratin 8

1 protein, 103 patents, 0 drugs, 0 trials, 3,942 NIH grants and 7,821 papers.

Gene 7

Its symbol and name are HGNC's, unless HGNC and NCBI Gene contradict each other.

FieldValueSource
SymbolKRT8HGNC
Namekeratin 8HGNC
NCBI Gene ID3856NCBI Gene
HGNC IDHGNC:6446HGNC
EnsemblENSG00000170421NCBI Gene
AliasesCARD2, CK-8, CK8, CYK8, K2C8, K8, KONCBI Gene
Typeprotein-codingNCBI Gene

Proteins 1

Reviewed human proteins whose Swiss-Prot entry states the gene.

UniProt entryProteinLengthStructuresGene stated inSource
P05787Keratin, type II cytoskeletal 84833Ensembl, GeneID, HGNCUniProt

Patents 103

Patents whose sequence listing holds the protein exactly: the same sequence, by SHA-256, length and CRC-64. A sequence a patent lists is not always one it claims.

PublicationPublishedSEQ ID NOProteinSource
JP 2026000906 A2026-01-06102P05787Espacenet
EP 4640849 A22025-10-29446P05787Espacenet
EP 4641201 A22025-10-293103P05787Espacenet
WO 2025215055 A12025-10-1681P05787Espacenet
WO 2025215055 A12025-10-1682P05787Espacenet
JP 2025519096 A2025-06-24446P05787Espacenet
JP 2025517969 A2025-06-123103P05787Espacenet
JP 2024123008 A2024-09-106747P05787Espacenet
JP 2024123008 A2024-09-106749P05787Espacenet
JP 2024123008 A2024-09-106752P05787Espacenet

Drugs 0

Drugs a ChEMBL mechanism record says act on the gene's protein, through Open Targets.

DrugChEMBL IDMechanismActionSource

Trials 0

Trials of those drugs. A trial joins the gene only through a drug that acts on it.

TrialDrugPhaseResults first postedSource

NIH grants 3942

NIH projects whose papers are about the gene, through NIH's grant-paper links.

ProjectTitleIts papers about the geneNewest fiscal yearSource
P30CA008748Cancer Center Support Grant442,025NIH's project files
P30CA016672Cancer Center Support Grant422,025NIH's project files
P50CA092629SPORE in Prostate Cancer182,025NIH's project files
P30CA046592University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Support Grant 2023-2028172,025NIH's project files
P30CA016058Cancer Center Support Grant152,025NIH's project files
P30CA125123Baylor College of Medicine Cancer Center - Cancer Center Support Grant152,025NIH's project files
P50CA097186The Pacific Northwest Prostate Cancer SPORE152,025NIH's project files
P30CA006973Regional Oncology Research Center142,025NIH's project files
P30CA016056Roswell Park Cancer Center Support Grant142,025NIH's project files
R01CA193837Role of ETS factors in specifying prostate luminal cell identity and androgen receptor dependence122,025NIH's project files

Papers 7821

Newest first. Swiss-Prot's references are curated; PubTator's text mining finds papers that name the gene, not always ones about it.

PMIDFound bySource
42813994PubTator, text miningPubMed
42812152PubTator, text miningPubMed
42772449PubTator, text miningPubMed
42765067PubTator, text miningPubMed
42748649PubTator, text miningPubMed
42719019PubTator, text miningPubMed
42702944PubTator, text miningPubMed
42679909PubTator, text miningPubMed
42660118PubTator, text miningPubMed
42650842PubTator, text miningPubMed

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Release gene-search-2026-11-11-0.1.0

ClinicalTrials.gov's posted results, through CTTI's AACT: ClinicalTrials.gov data via Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), CTTI. CTTI makes its materials freely available and requests acknowledgement. https://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/documentation/299 ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

ChEMBL, through Open Targets: CC BY-SA 3.0, for the parts from ChEMBL. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

ClinicalTrials.gov: none stated ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

EMBL-EBI's patent proteins: EMBL-EBI's patent protein files from the EPO, JPO, KIPO and USPTO. EMBL-EBI: "EMBL-EBI itself places no additional restrictions on the use or redistribution of the data available via its Data Resources and Tools other than those provided by the original data owners" and "EMBL-EBI expects attribution (e.g. in publications, services or products) for the use of any of its Data Resources and Tools." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use

GenBank's patent files: GenBank's patent files. NCBI: "NCBI places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the GenBank data. However, some submitters may claim patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all or a portion of the data they have submitted." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/about/

HGNC: CC0: https://www.genenames.org/about/license/

NCBI Gene: None named for the file. NCBI says information created by or for the US government on its site is in the public domain, and asks that NLM be acknowledged: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/

NIH's project files and grant-paper links: Public domain (NIH RePORTER)

Open Targets: CC0 1.0. Open Targets asks that users cite its latest paper: Buniello et al. 2025, Open Targets Platform: facilitating therapeutic hypotheses building in drug discovery, Nucleic Acids Research 53(D1):D1467, PMID 39657122. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

PubTator 3: Public domain

UniProt: CC BY 4.0. UniProt's licence file: "All databases and documents in the UniProt FTP directory may be copied and redistributed freely, without advance permission, provided that this copyright statement is reproduced with each copy." UniProt asks that users cite its latest paper: The UniProt Consortium, UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025, Nucleic Acids Research 53:D609-D617, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1010. Read on 9 Nov 2026 at https://www.uniprot.org/help/license