MELK

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Maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase
Identifiers
Symbols MELK; HPK38; KIAA0175
External IDs OMIM607025 MGI106924 HomoloGene32111 GeneCards: MELK Gene
EC number 2.7.11.1
RNA expression pattern
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More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez 9833 17279
Ensembl ENSG00000165304 ENSMUSG00000035683
UniProt Q14680 Q3TJF3
RefSeq (mRNA) NM_014791 NM_010790.2
RefSeq (protein) NP_055606 NP_034920.2
Location (UCSC) Chr 9:
36.57 – 36.68 Mb
Chr 4:
44.31 – 44.38 Mb
PubMed search [1] [2]

Maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MELK gene.[1][2][3]


[edit] Interactions

MELK has been shown to interact with CDC25B.[4]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nagase T, Seki N, Ishikawa K, Tanaka A, Nomura N (Nov 1996). "Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. V. The coding sequences of 40 new genes (KIAA0161-KIAA0200) deduced by analysis of cDNA clones from human cell line KG-1". DNA Res 3 (1): 17–24. doi:10.1093/dnares/3.1.17. PMID 8724849. 
  2. ^ Heyer BS, Warsowe J, Solter D, Knowles BB, Ackerman SL (Aug 1997). "New member of the Snf1/AMPK kinase family, Melk, is expressed in the mouse egg and preimplantation embryo". Mol Reprod Dev 47 (2): 148–56. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1098-2795(199706)47:2<148::AID-MRD4>3.0.CO;2-M. PMID 9136115. 
  3. ^ "Entrez Gene: MELK maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase". http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=gene&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=9833. 
  4. ^ Davezac, Noélie; Baldin Véronique, Blot Joëlle, Ducommun Bernard, Tassan Jean-Pierre (Oct. 2002). "Human pEg3 kinase associates with and phosphorylates CDC25B phosphatase: a potential role for pEg3 in cell cycle regulation". Oncogene (England) 21 (50): 7630–41. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1205870. ISSN 0950-9232. PMID 12400006. 

[edit] Further reading

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