WNK2

WNK lysine deficient protein kinase 2
Identifiers
Symbols WNK2 ; NY-CO-43; P/OKcl.13; PRKWNK2; SDCCAG43
External IDs OMIM: 606249 MGI: 1922857 HomoloGene: 19155 ChEMBL: 5639 GeneCards: WNK2 Gene
EC number 2.7.11.1
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 65268 75607
Ensembl ENSG00000165238 ENSMUSG00000037989
UniProt Q9Y3S1 Q3UH66
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001282394 NM_001290311
RefSeq (protein) NP_001269323 NP_001277240
Location (UCSC) Chr 9:
93.18 – 93.32 Mb
Chr 13:
49.04 – 49.15 Mb
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Serine/threonine-protein kinase WNK2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the WNK2 gene.[1][2][3]

The protein encoded by this gene is a cytoplasmic serine-threonine kinase that contains cysteine in place of the lysine found at the conserved ATP-binding location in subdomain II of protein kinases. Since this protein does have kinase activity, it is possible that another lysine in the kinase subdomain I can substitute for the missing conserved lysine.[3]

References

  1. Scanlan MJ, Chen YT, Williamson B, Gure AO, Stockert E, Gordan JD, Tureci O, Sahin U, Pfreundschuh M, Old LJ (Jun 1998). "Characterization of human colon cancer antigens recognized by autologous antibodies". Int J Cancer 76 (5): 652–8. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19980529)76:5<652::AID-IJC7>3.0.CO;2-P. PMID 9610721.
  2. Verissimo F, Jordan P (Sep 2001). "WNK kinases, a novel protein kinase subfamily in multi-cellular organisms". Oncogene 20 (39): 5562–9. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1204726. PMID 11571656.
  3. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: WNK2 WNK lysine deficient protein kinase 2".

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