Tetraodon nigroviridis      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 8 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (8

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Ten-0107
ENSTNIG00000004087.1
H3CEM6
2
iEKPD-Ten-0121
ENSTNIG00000004554.1
H3C2T9
3
iEKPD-Ten-0203
ENSTNIG00000007270.1
H3CP91
4
iEKPD-Ten-0214
ENSTNIG00000007522.1
H3CPZ7
5
iEKPD-Ten-0335
ENSTNIG00000011361.1
H3D1C0
6
iEKPD-Ten-0606
ENSTNIG00000019249.1
H3DPK1
7
iEKPD-Ten-0048
ENSTNIG00000002310.1
Q4TEA0
GSTENG00002353001
8
iEKPD-Ten-0309
ENSTNIG00000010230.1
H3BVY3
TRPM7