Source | expressedinEcoli |
SpecificActivity | ForSpecificActivitydata,refertotheCertificateofAnalysisforindividuallotsofthisenzyme. |
EntrezGeneNumber | |
EntrezGeneSummary | TheproteinencodedbythisgeneisamemberoftheMAPkinasefamily.MAPkinases,alsoknownasextracellularsignal-regulatedkinases(ERKs),actasanintegrationpointformultiplebiochemicalsignals,andareinvolvedinawidevarietyofcellularprocessessuchasproliferation,differentiation,transcriptionregulationanddevelopment.Theactivationofthiskinaserequiresitsphosphorylationbyupstreamkinases.Uponactivation,thiskinasetranslocatestothenucleusofthestimulatedcells,whereitphosphorylatesnucleartargets.Twoalternativelysplicedtranscriptvariantsencodingthesameprotein,butdifferingintheUTRs,havebeenreportedforthisgene. |
GeneSymbol | - MAPK1
- p40
- PRKM2
- MAPK2
- PRKM1
- p42-MAPK
- p38
- p41
- ERK
- ERK-2
- ERT1
- P42MAPK
- p41mapk
- ERK2
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ProteinTarget | MAPK2 |
PurificationMethod | Glutathione-agarose |
TargetSub-Family | CMGC |
UniProtNumber | |
UniProtSummary | FUNCTION:SwissProt:P63085#Serine/threoninekinasewhichactsasanessentialcomponentoftheMAPkinasesignaltransductionpathway.MAPK1/ERK2andMAPK3/ERK1arethe2MAPKswhichplayanimportantroleintheMAPK/ERKcascade.TheyparticipatealsoinasignalingcascadeinitiatedbyactivatedKITandKITLG/SCF.Dependingonthecellularcontext,theMAPK/ERKcascademediatesdiversebiologicalfunctionssuchascellgrowth,adhesion,survivalanddifferentiationthroughtheregulationoftranscription,translation,cytoskeletalrearrangements.ThetheMAPK/ERKcascadeplaysalsoaroleininitiationandregulationofmeiosis,mitosis,andpostmitoticfunctionsindifferentiatedcellsbyphosphorylatinganumberoftranscriptionfactors.About160substrateshavealreadybeendiscoveredforERKs.Manyofthesesubstratesarelocalizedinthenucleus,andseemtoparticipateintheregulationoftranscriptionuponstimulation.However,othersubstratesarefoundinthecytosolaswellasinothercellularorganelles,andthoseareresponsIBLeforprocessessuchastranslation,mitosisandapoptosis.Moreover,theMAPK/ERKcascadeisalsoinvolvedintheregulationoftheendosomaldynamics,includinglysosomeprocessingandendosomecyclingthroughtheperinuclearrecyclingcompartment(PNRC);aswellasinthefragmentationoftheGolgiapparatusduringmitosis. COFACTOR:Magnesium(Bysimilarity). DOMAIN:TheTXYmotifcontainsthethreonineandtyrosineresidueswhosephosphorylationactivatestheMAPkinases. SIMILARITY:Belongstotheproteinkinasesuperfamily.CMGCSer/Thrproteinkinasefamily.MAPkinasesubfamily.&Contains1proteinkinasedomain. |
MolecularWeight | 67.8kDa |