Macaca mulatta      Other/NEK


※ NEK family introduction

    NEKs (Never in mitosis A-related kinases) are classified into "Other" group. Eleven members have been identified in human genome. NimA is the founding member of the NEK family of ser/thr kinases which is an essential regulator of mitosis. All NEK kinases except NEK10 contain N-terminal catalytic domain, followed by coiled-coiled motifs except in NEK4,6 and 7 members. And in C-terminal, PEST sequences are found in moreover 6 of 11 NEK kinases. Besides the homology regions, certain NEKs contain unique domain or sequences, such as RCC1 repeats, DEAD-box helicase-like domain and armadillo repeats. NEKs play an important role in a variety of cellular processes and functions via mediate the phosphorylation of substrates. Studies show that NEK2 is essential in control of centrosome splitting, NEK6, 7 and 9 have been found in regulating mitotic spindle and cytokinesis, NEK1 and NEK8 is related to ciliagenesis. NEKs act as key regulator function during mitosis and abnormal expression or mutations on NEKs gene will lead to some disease and cancers such ovarian cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer and so on (1).

Reference
1. Moniz, L., Dutt, P., Haider, N. and Stambolic, V. (2011) Nek family of kinases in cell cycle, checkpoint control and cancer. Cell Div, 6, 18. PMID: 22040655


There are 11 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (11

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Mam-0201
ENSMMUG00000012244.3
F7GZ09
NEK1
2
iEKPD-Mam-0336
ENSMMUG00000019324.3
F6S2I7
NEK10
3
iEKPD-Mam-0077
ENSMMUG00000005144.3
F7DBE2
NEK11
4
iEKPD-Mam-0080
ENSMMUG00000005216.3
F7C8J4
NEK2
5
iEKPD-Mam-0277
ENSMMUG00000016530.3
F6WD53
NEK3
6
iEKPD-Mam-0303
ENSMMUG00000017903.3
F7F0Z5
NEK4
7
iEKPD-Mam-0276
ENSMMUG00000016523.3
F6WDM3
NEK5
8
iEKPD-Mam-0114
ENSMMUG00000007354.3
F7H6C5
NEK6
9
iEKPD-Mam-0389
ENSMMUG00000021649.2
A0A1D5QLT8
NEK7
10
iEKPD-Mam-0437
ENSMMUG00000030250.2
F6UM89
NEK8
11
iEKPD-Mam-0241
ENSMMUG00000015166.3
F6U7G5
NEK9