Protein kinase N3 | |||||||||||||
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Identifiers | |||||||||||||
Symbols | PKN3; RP11-545E17.1 | ||||||||||||
External IDs | OMIM: 610714 MGI: 2388285 HomoloGene: 50980 GeneCards: PKN3 Gene | ||||||||||||
EC number | 2.7.11.13 | ||||||||||||
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Species | Human | Mouse | |||||||||||
Entrez | 29941 | 263803 | |||||||||||
Ensembl | ENSG00000160447 | ENSMUSG00000026785 | |||||||||||
UniProt | Q6P5Z2 | Q3UQS3 | |||||||||||
RefSeq (mRNA) | NM_013355 | NM_153805.1 | |||||||||||
RefSeq (protein) | NP_037487 | NP_722500.1 | |||||||||||
Location (UCSC) | Chr 9: 131.46 – 131.48 Mb |
Chr 2: 29.93 – 29.95 Mb |
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PubMed search | [1] | [2] |
PKN3 is a protein kinase C-related molecule and thought to be an effector mediating malignant cell growth downstream of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K).[1] It is thought that chronic activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/PTEN signal transduction pathway contributes to metastatic cell growth and that PKN3 may mediate that growth.1
PKN3 is required for invasive prostate cell growth as assessed by 3D cell culture assays and in an orthotopic mouse tumor model by inducible expression of short hairpin RNA (shRNA). PKN3 may represent a target for therapeutic intervention in cancers that lack tumor suppressor PTEN function or depend on chronic activation of PI3K.
PKN3 (gene) has been shown to interact with ARHGAP26.[2]