NLK

Nemo-like kinase

Identifiers

NLK; DKFZp761G1211; FLJ21033

External IDs

OMIM: 609476 HomoloGene: 88836 GeneCards: NLK Gene

Gene Ontology
Molecular function	• nucleotide binding • magnesium ion binding • protein kinase activity • protein serine/threonine kinase activity • MAP kinase activity • protein binding • ATP binding • transcription factor binding • ubiquitin protein ligase binding • SH2 domain binding
Cellular component	• nucleus • cytoplasm
Biological process	• regulation of transcription, DNA-dependent • protein phosphorylation • protein phosphorylation • transforming growth factor beta receptor signaling pathway • intracellular protein kinase cascade • peptidyl-threonine phosphorylation • negative regulation of Wnt receptor signaling pathway • serine phosphorylation of STAT3 protein • protein autophosphorylation
Sources: Amigo / QuickGO

Orthologs

Species

Human

Mouse

ENSG00000087095

ENSMUSG00000017376

n/a

RefSeq (mRNA)

RefSeq (protein)

Location (UCSC)

Chr 17:
26.37 – 26.52 Mb

Chr 11:
78.38 – 78.51 Mb

PubMed search

Serine/threonine protein kinase NLK is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NLK gene.^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Brott BK, Pinsky BA, Erikson RL (Mar 1998). "Nlk is a murine protein kinase related to Erk/MAP kinases and localized in the nucleus". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 95 (3): 963–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.3.963. PMC 18639. PMID 9448268. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=18639.
^ Kehrer-Sawatzki H, Moschgath E, Maier C, Legius E, Elgar G, Krone W (Jul 2000). "Characterization of the Fugu rubripes NLK and FN5 genes flanking the NF1 (Neurofibromatosis type 1) gene in the 5' direction and mapping of the human counterparts". Gene 251 (1): 63–71. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00188-8. PMID 10863097.
^ "Entrez Gene: NLK nemo-like kinase". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=51701.

Further reading

Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery.". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID 8889548.
Volorio S, Simon G, Repetto M, et al. (1999). "Sequencing analysis of forty-eight human image cDNA clones similar to Drosophila mutant protein.". DNA Seq. 9 (5-6): 307–15. doi:10.3109/10425179809008469. PMID 10524757.
Kortenjann M, Wehrle C, Nehls MC, Boehm T (2002). "Only one nemo-like kinase gene homologue in invertebrate and mammalian genomes.". Gene 278 (1-2): 161–5. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(01)00710-7. PMID 11707333.
Wistow G, Bernstein SL, Wyatt MK, et al. (2002). "Expressed sequence tag analysis of human retina for the NEIBank Project: retbindin, an abundant, novel retinal cDNA and alternative splicing of other retina-preferred gene transcripts.". Mol. Vis. 8: 196–204. PMID 12107411.
Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=139241.
Ishitani T, Kishida S, Hyodo-Miura J, et al. (2003). "The TAK1-NLK mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade functions in the Wnt-5a/Ca(2+) pathway to antagonize Wnt/beta-catenin signaling.". Mol. Cell. Biol. 23 (1): 131–9. doi:10.1128/MCB.23.1.131-139.2003. PMC 140665. PMID 12482967. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=140665.
Ishitani T, Ninomiya-Tsuji J, Matsumoto K (2003). "Regulation of lymphoid enhancer factor 1/T-cell factor by mitogen-activated protein kinase-related Nemo-like kinase-dependent phosphorylation in Wnt/beta-catenin signaling.". Mol. Cell. Biol. 23 (4): 1379–89. doi:10.1128/MCB.23.4.1379-1389.2003. PMC 141159. PMID 12556497. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=141159.
Yasuda J, Tsuchiya A, Yamada T, et al. (2003). "Nemo-like kinase induces apoptosis in DLD-1 human colon cancer cells.". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 308 (2): 227–33. doi:10.1016/S0006-291X(03)01343-3. PMID 12901858.
Yasuda J, Yokoo H, Yamada T, et al. (2004). "Nemo-like kinase suppresses a wide range of transcription factors, including nuclear factor-kappaB.". Cancer Sci. 95 (1): 52–7. doi:10.1111/j.1349-7006.2004.tb03170.x. PMID 14720327.
Smit L, Baas A, Kuipers J, et al. (2004). "Wnt activates the Tak1/Nemo-like kinase pathway.". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (17): 17232–40. doi:10.1074/jbc.M307801200. PMID 14960582.
Kanei-Ishii C, Ninomiya-Tsuji J, Tanikawa J, et al. (2004). "Wnt-1 signal induces phosphorylation and degradation of c-Myb protein via TAK1, HIPK2, and NLK.". Genes Dev. 18 (7): 816–29. doi:10.1101/gad.1170604. PMC 387421. PMID 15082531. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=387421.
Kanei-Ishii C, Nomura T, Tanikawa J, et al. (2004). "Differential sensitivity of v-Myb and c-Myb to Wnt-1-induced protein degradation.". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (43): 44582–9. doi:10.1074/jbc.M407831200. PMID 15308626.
Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=528928.
Kojima H, Sasaki T, Ishitani T, et al. (2005). "STAT3 regulates Nemo-like kinase by mediating its interaction with IL-6-stimulated TGFbeta-activated kinase 1 for STAT3 Ser-727 phosphorylation.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 102 (12): 4524–9. doi:10.1073/pnas.0500679102. PMC 555521. PMID 15764709. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=555521.
Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, et al. (2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes.". Genome Res. 16 (1): 55–65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMC 1356129. PMID 16344560. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1356129.
Lim J, Hao T, Shaw C, et al. (2006). "A protein-protein interaction network for human inherited ataxias and disorders of Purkinje cell degeneration.". Cell 125 (4): 801–14. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.03.032. PMID 16713569.
Gohda J, Irisawa M, Tanaka Y, et al. (2007). "HTLV-1 Tax-induced NFkappaB activation is independent of Lys-63-linked-type polyubiquitination.". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 357 (1): 225–30. doi:10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.03.125. PMID 17418100.