WNK2

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WNK lysine deficient protein kinase 2
Identifiers
SymbolsWNK2; NY-CO-43; P/OKcl.13; PRKWNK2; SDCCAG43
External IDsOMIM: 606249 MGI: 1922857 HomoloGene: 19155 ChEMBL: 5639 GeneCards: WNK2 Gene
EC number2.7.11.1
Orthologs
SpeciesHumanMouse
Entrez6526875607
EnsemblENSG00000165238ENSMUSG00000037989
UniProtQ9Y3S1Q3UH66
RefSeq (mRNA)NM_006648NM_029361
RefSeq (protein)NP_006639NP_083637
Location (UCSC)Chr 9:
95.95 – 96.08 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. 3.0 3.1 "Entrez Gene: WNK2 WNK lysine deficient protein kinase 2". 

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