ALPK1

Alpha-kinase 1
Identifiers
Symbols ALPK1 ; 8430410J10Rik; LAK
External IDs OMIM: 607347 MGI: 1918731 HomoloGene: 11849 GeneCards: ALPK1 Gene
RNA expression pattern
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Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 80216 71481
Ensembl ENSG00000073331 ENSMUSG00000028028
UniProt Q96QP1 Q9CXB8
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001102406 NM_027808
RefSeq (protein) NP_001095876 NP_082084
Location (UCSC) Chr 4:
112.29 – 112.44 Mb
Chr 3:
127.67 – 127.78 Mb
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Alpha-protein kinase 1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ALPK1 gene.[1][2][3]

Unlike most eukaryotic kinases, alpha kinases, such as LAK, recognize phosphorylation sites in which the surrounding peptides have an alpha-helical conformation.[supplied by OMIM][3]

References

  1. Ryazanov AG, Pavur KS, Dorovkov MV (Mar 1999). "Alpha-kinases: a new class of protein kinases with a novel catalytic domain". Curr Biol 9 (2): R43–5. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80006-2. PMID 10021370.
  2. Nagase T, Kikuno R, Ishikawa K, Hirosawa M, Ohara O (Sep 2000). "Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. XVII. The complete sequences of 100 new cDNA clones from brain which code for large proteins in vitro". DNA Res 7 (2): 143–50. doi:10.1093/dnares/7.2.143. PMID 10819331.
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: ALPK1 alpha-kinase 1".

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