Gorilla gorilla      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-Gog-0149
ENSGGOG00000006662.3
G3RQ23
ALPK1
2
iEKPD-Gog-0326
ENSGGOG00000013746.3
G3RD20
ALPK2
3
iEKPD-Gog-0207
ENSGGOG00000009380.3
G3R1T6
ALPK3
4
iEKPD-Gog-0369
ENSGGOG00000015267.3
G3RGY7
EEF2K
5
iEKPD-Gog-0279
ENSGGOG00000011987.3
A0A2I2YQ50
TRPM6
6
iEKPD-Gog-0451
ENSGGOG00000027678.2
G3SCN1
TRPM7