ADK (gene)

Adenosine kinase

PDB rendering based on 1bx4.
Available structures
PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB
Identifiers
Symbols ADK ; AK
External IDs OMIM: 102750 MGI: 87930 HomoloGene: 4891 IUPHAR: 1231 ChEMBL: 3589 GeneCards: ADK Gene
EC number 2.7.1.20
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 132 11534
Ensembl ENSG00000156110 ENSMUSG00000039197
UniProt P55263 P55264
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001123 NM_001243041
RefSeq (protein) NP_001114 NP_001229970
Location (UCSC) Chr 10:
74.15 – 74.71 Mb
Chr 14:
21.05 – 21.45 Mb
PubMed search

Adenosine kinase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ADK gene.[1][2]

Function

This gene encodes adenosine kinase, an abundant enzyme in mammalian tissues. The enzyme catalyzes the transfer of the gamma-phosphate from ATP to adenosine, thereby serving as a regulator of concentrations of both extracellular adenosine and intracellular adenine nucleotides. Adenosine has widespread effects on the cardiovascular, nervous, respiratory, and immune systems and inhibitors of the enzyme could play an important pharmacological role in increasing intravascular adenosine concentrations and acting as anti-inflammatory agents. Alternative splicing results in two transcript variants encoding different isoforms. Both isoforms of the enzyme phosphorylate adenosine with identical kinetics and both require Mg2+ for activity.[2]

References

  1. Spychala J, Datta NS, Takabayashi K, Datta M, Fox IH, Gribbin T, Mitchell BS (Mar 1996). "Cloning of human adenosine kinase cDNA: sequence similarity to microbial ribokinases and fructokinases". Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 93 (3): 1232–7. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.3.1232. PMC 40062. PMID 8577746.
  2. 1 2 "Entrez Gene: ADK adenosine kinase".

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