Equus caballus      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-Eqc-0064
ENSECAG00000007247.1
F7E264
ALPK1
2
iEKPD-Eqc-0186
ENSECAG00000012921.1
F6QEE4
ALPK2
3
iEKPD-Eqc-0235
ENSECAG00000015231.1
F7DMH6
ALPK3
4
iEKPD-Eqc-0405
ENSECAG00000022924.1
F6T489
EEF2K
5
iEKPD-Eqc-0246
ENSECAG00000015942.1
F7DZA7
TRPM6
6
iEKPD-Eqc-0280
ENSECAG00000017780.1
F7BQ57
TRPM7