Octodon degus      TK/Trk


※ Trk family introduction

    Trk family belongs to receptor tyrosine kinase. Three members have been identified in human genome, TrkA, TrkB and TrkC. Structure analysis show that Trks share a common organization. The extracellular region contains two cystein clusters which is separated by a leucine-rich motifs (LRM), and two immunoglobulin-like domains. The intracellular region contains a TK domain. Trks play an important role in a variety of cellular processes, including neuronal survival, differentiation and plasticity. For instance, knockout of Trk will lead to the reduced axon outgrowth and increased cell death, mammalian Trks regulate the convert of short-term plasticity to long-term plasticity (1).

Reference
1. Sossin, W.S. (2006) Tracing the evolution and function of the Trk superfamily of receptor tyrosine kinases. Brain Behav Evol, 68, 145-156. PMID: 16912468


There are 3 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (3

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Ocd-0122
ENSODEG00000005490.1
2
iEKPD-Ocd-0253
ENSODEG00000010373.1
3
iEKPD-Ocd-0384
ENSODEG00000014845.1