ICK (gene)

Intestinal cell (MAK-like) kinase
Identifiers
Symbols ICK; ECO; KIAA0936; LCK2; MGC46090; MRK
External IDs OMIM612325 MGI1934157 HomoloGene69218 GeneCards: ICK Gene
EC number 2.7.11.22
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 22858 56542
Ensembl ENSG00000112144 ENSMUSG00000009828
UniProt Q9UPZ9 Q3U4K6
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_014920.3 NM_019987
RefSeq (protein) NP_055735.1 NP_064371
Location (UCSC) Chr 6:
52.87 – 52.93 Mb
Chr 9:
77.96 – 78.02 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Serine/threonine-protein kinase ICK is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ICK gene.[1][2]

Eukaryotic protein kinases are enzymes that belong to a very extensive family of proteins which share a conserved catalytic core common with both serine/threonine and tyrosine protein kinases. This gene encodes an intestinal serine/threonine kinase harboring a dual phosphorylation site found in mitogen-activating protein (MAP) kinases. The protein localizes to the intestinal crypt region and is thought to be important in intestinal epithelial cell proliferation and differentiation. Alternative splicing has been observed at this locus and two variants, encoding the same isoform, have been identified.[2]

References

  1. ^ Yang T, Jiang Y, Chen J (Jul 2002). "The identification and subcellular localization of human MRK". Biomol Eng 19 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1016/S1389-0344(02)00002-3. PMID 12103360. 
  2. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: ICK intestinal cell (MAK-like) kinase". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=22858. 

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