※ MAPK family introduction

    MAPK (mitogen-activated protein kinase) are serine/threonine specific protein kinases belonging to CMGC kinase group. MAPKs play an important role in directing cellular responses to a diverse array of stimuli, such as mitogens, osmotic stress, heat shock and proinflammatory cytokines. MAPKs are involved in regulation of a variety of cellular processes, including cell proliferation, gene expression, differentiation, mitosis, cell survival and cell apoptosis. Three subfamilys constitute MAPK family, extracellular-receptor kinases (ERK), the c-Jun N-terminal kinases/stress-activated protein kinases (JNK/SAPK) and p38 MAPKinases. MAPK signaling pathways are important in animals, fungi and plants. ERK1/2 pathway is best understood in animals, which is essential for cell proliferation and cell cycle. Fus3 pathway is also well studied in fungi, which is responsible for cell cycle and mating in responses to pheromone stimulation. MAPKs pathway in plants may response to osmotic shock, oxidative stress, cold and anti-pathogen responses (1).

Reference
1. Wikipedia Annotation:    Mitogen-activated protein kinase

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No.	Status	iEKPD ID	Ensemble Gene ID	UniProt Accession	Gene Name
1		iEKPD-Chr-0024	CHLREDRAFT_104788	A8J453	CHLREDRAFT_104788
2		iEKPD-Chr-0304	CHLREDRAFT_169732	A8IKE0	CHLREDRAFT_169732
3		iEKPD-Chr-0455	CHLREDRAFT_190361	A8IW18	CHLREDRAFT_190361
4		iEKPD-Chr-0485	CHLREDRAFT_193901	Q9FXT7	CrMPK2
5		iEKPD-Chr-0140	CHLREDRAFT_137528	A8IYZ5	MAPK2
6		iEKPD-Chr-0538	CHLREDRAFT_78072	A8IKE3	MAPK3
7		iEKPD-Chr-0034	CHLREDRAFT_108650	A8JI35	MAPK4
8		iEKPD-Chr-0131	CHLREDRAFT_131998	A8JB11	MAPK5
9		iEKPD-Chr-0404	CHLREDRAFT_183031	A8IKD6	MAPK6