Magnaporthe poae      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 6 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (6

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Map-0046
MAPG_04133
A0A0C4DVX0
MAPG_04133
2
iEKPD-Map-0049
MAPG_04638
A0A0C4DX97
MAPG_04638
3
iEKPD-Map-0066
MAPG_05596
A0A0C4DZT9
MAPG_05596
4
iEKPD-Map-0069
MAPG_06064
A0A0C4E121
MAPG_06064
5
iEKPD-Map-0110
MAPG_09371
A0A0C4E9S3
MAPG_09371
6
iEKPD-Map-0134
MAPG_11426
A0A0C4EF87
MAPG_11426