Astyanax mexicanus      AGC/MAST


※ MAST family introduction

    MASTs (Microtubule-associated Serine/Threonine-protein kinases) belong to AGC group. The MAST kinases are characterized by the presence of a Serine/Threonine kinase domain, a second 3' MAST domain and PDZ domain. The PDZ domain has been reported to mediate interaction with others proteins and help MAST to facilitate functionally important phosphorylation. The N-terminal kinase catalytic domain is relatively conserved in MAST family with a high identity (>60%). MAST family is expressed in multiple tissues. In nervous system, MAST may act as a key role through localization within the DAPC/UAPC, which is found within region of the neuromuscular junction (NMJ) and central synapses (1). Recently gene rearrangements involving MAST and Notch have been reported. Overexpression of MAST1 or MAST2 gene fusions plays an important effect on proliferative (2).

Reference
1. Garland, P., Quraishe, S., French, P. and O'Connor, V. (2008) Expression of the MAST family of serine/threonine kinases. Brain Res, 1195, 12-19. PMID: 18206861
2. Robinson, D.R., Kalyana-Sundaram, S., Wu, Y.M., Shankar, S., Cao, X., Ateeq, B., Asangani, I.A., Iyer, M., Maher, C.A., Grasso, C.S. et al. (2011) Functionally recurrent rearrangements of the MAST kinase and Notch gene families in breast cancer. Nat Med, 17, 1646-1651 PMID: 22101766


There are 6 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (6

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Asm-1619
ENSAMXG00000003343.1
W5K776
2
iEKPD-Asm-1621
ENSAMXG00000005313.1
W5KCY9
3
iEKPD-Asm-1627
ENSAMXG00000010437.1
W5KT35
4
iEKPD-Asm-0462
ENSAMXG00000015110.1
W5L6U6
5
iEKPD-Asm-1645
ENSAMXG00000018741.1
W5LHI4
6
iEKPD-Asm-1642
ENSAMXG00000016645.1
W5LBE6
MAST4