COX8A

Chr 11q13.1

cytochrome c oxidase subunit 8A

Aliases:: COX8-2, COX8L, VIII-L, COX, VIII
MANE:: ENST00000314133.4

OMIM: 123870 ↗NCBI: 1351 ↗Ensembl ↗

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Predicted protein structure

AlphaFold predicted structure

COX8A · P10176

v62025-08-01

Predicted Aligned Error matrix for COX8A — diagonal shows residue index, colour shows pairwise prediction confidence (lower is better) — Predicted Aligned Error

Mean pLDDT

85.8/ 100

Confident

69 residues

Confidence breakdown

Very high(≥ 90)56%
Confident(70–90)32%
Low(50–70)12%
Very low(< 50)0%

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Clinical relevance (Genomics England PanelApp)

Moderate Evidence (Amber)

Mitochondrial disorder with complex IV deficiency
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Possible mitochondrial disorder - nuclear genes
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Likely inborn error of metabolism
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Mitochondrial disorders
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal
Undiagnosed metabolic disorders
BIALLELIC, autosomal or pseudoautosomal

Disease associations (Open Targets)

Isolated cytochrome C oxidase deficiency
0.46
leigh syndrome due to mitochondrial complex iv deficiency
0.36
neurodegenerative disease
0.35
autoimmune disorder of central nervous system
0.27
mitochondrial complex IV deficiency, nuclear type 15
0.19
meningioma
0.06
Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy
0.05
glioblastoma
0.05
X-linked retinoschisis
0.05
retinitis pigmentosa
0.05

Score is the Open Targets composite evidence score (0-1). Higher = stronger gene-disease association.

Protein function (UniProt)

Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 8A, mitochondrial

Component of the cytochrome c oxidase, the last enzyme in the mitochondrial electron transport chain which drives oxidative phosphorylation. The respiratory chain contains 3 multisubunit complexes succinate dehydrogenase (complex II, CII), ubiquinol-cytochrome c oxidoreductase (cytochrome b-c1 complex, complex III, CIII) and cytochrome c oxidase (complex IV, CIV), that cooperate to transfer electrons derived from NADH and succinate to molecular oxygen, creating an electrochemical gradient over the inner membrane that drives transmembrane transport and the ATP synthase. Cytochrome c oxidase is the component of the respiratory chain that catalyzes the reduction of oxygen to water. Electrons originating from reduced cytochrome c in the intermembrane space (IMS) are transferred via the dinuclear copper A center (CU(A)) of subunit 2 and heme A of subunit 1 to the active site in subunit 1, a binuclear center (BNC) formed by heme A3 and copper B (CU(B)). The BNC reduces molecular oxygen to 2 water molecules using 4 electrons from cytochrome c in the IMS and 4 protons from the mitochondrial matrix