Cavia porcellus      Atypical/Alpha


※ Alpha family introduction

    Alpha kinases belong to atypical kinase group and lack significant sequence similarity to ePK (1). Six members have been identified in mammals, including elongation factor 2 kinase, Dictyostelium myosin heavy chain kinases and other protein kinases. eEF-2 is involve in regulation of the global rate of protein synthesis and MHCK A is essential in regualtion of myosin assembly and disassembly. Although no detectable sequence identity between ePK and Alpha kinases has been found, the structure, sequence motifs and key amino acid residue position are very similar. The differences may impact on substrate recognition (2).

Reference
1. Manning, G., Whyte, D.B., Martinez, R., Hunter, T. and Sudarsanam, S. (2002) The protein kinase complement of the human genome. Science, 298, 1912-1934. PMID: 12471243
2. Drennan, D. and Ryazanov, A.G. (2004) Alpha-kinases: analysis of the family and comparison with conventional protein kinases. Prog Biophys Mol Biol, 85, 1-32. PMID: 15050379


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

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Cap-0193
ENSCPOG00000008412.4
H0VCB1
ALPK1
2
iEKPD-Cap-0475
ENSCPOG00000039062.1
A0A286XA79
ALPK2
3
iEKPD-Cap-0199
ENSCPOG00000008577.4
H0VCN5
ALPK3
4
iEKPD-Cap-0274
ENSCPOG00000012053.4
H0VKK6
EEF2K
5
iEKPD-Cap-0258
ENSCPOG00000011221.4
H0VIP3
TRPM6
6
iEKPD-Cap-0130
ENSCPOG00000005405.4
H0V5D6
TRPM7