NLK

NLK
Identifiers
Aliases NLK
External IDs MGI: 1201387 HomoloGene: 88836 GeneCards: NLK
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez

51701

18099

Ensembl

ENSG00000087095

ENSMUSG00000017376

UniProt

Q9UBE8

O54949

RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_016231

NM_008702

RefSeq (protein)

NP_057315.3

NP_032728.3

Location (UCSC) Chr 17: 28.04 – 28.2 Mb Chr 11: 78.57 – 78.7 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]
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Serine/threonine protein kinase NLK is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NLK gene.[3][4][5] Its name is an abbreviation for Nemo-Like Kinase, Nemo (nmo) being the Drosophila ortholog of the mammalian NLK gene.[6] This enzyme is a member of the Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) family, although not explicitly designated as such (it does not even have a numbered MAPK code). It is a highly divergent, atypical member of the MAPK group, lacking most features so characteristic of most mitogen-activated protein kinases (e.g. it does not have the dual phosphorylation motifs of typical MAPKs, and is not phosphorylated by any known MAP2 kinases). Its activation mechanism and downstream targets are still not well characterized.[7]

References

  1. "Human PubMed Reference:".
  2. "Mouse PubMed Reference:".
  3. Brott BK, Pinsky BA, Erikson RL (Mar 1998). "Nlk is a murine protein kinase related to Erk/MAP kinases and localized in the nucleus". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 95 (3): 963–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.3.963. PMC 18639Freely accessible. PMID 9448268.
  4. Kehrer-Sawatzki H, Moschgath E, Maier C, Legius E, Elgar G, Krone W (Jul 2000). "Characterization of the Fugu rubripes NLK and FN5 genes flanking the NF1 (Neurofibromatosis type 1) gene in the 5' direction and mapping of the human counterparts". Gene. 251 (1): 63–71. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00188-8. PMID 10863097.
  5. "Entrez Gene: NLK nemo-like kinase".
  6. Ishitani T, Ishitani S (January 2013). "Nemo-like kinase, a multifaceted cell signaling regulator". Cell. Signal. 25 (1): 190–7. doi:10.1016/j.cellsig.2012.09.017. PMID 23000342.
  7. Coulombe P, Meloche S (August 2007). "Atypical mitogen-activated protein kinases: structure, regulation and functions". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1773 (8): 1376–87. doi:10.1016/j.bbamcr.2006.11.001. PMID 17161475.

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