KIF18A explained
Kinesin family member KIF18A is a human protein encoded by the KIF18A gene.[1] [2] It is part of the kinesin family of motor proteins.
Function
KIF18A is a plus-end directed motor protein, and migrates to the plus ends of the spindle during early mitosis. It first accumulates there during prophase and metaphase, and is depleted during anaphase.[3]
Further reading
- Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA . DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination. . Genome Res. . 10 . 11 . 1788–95 . 2001 . 11076863 . 10.1101/gr.143000 . 310948.
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- Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, etal . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs. . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . free.
- Bouwmeester T, Bauch A, Ruffner H, etal . A physical and functional map of the human TNF-alpha/NF-kappa B signal transduction pathway. . Nat. Cell Biol. . 6 . 2 . 97–105 . 2004 . 14743216 . 10.1038/ncb1086 . 11683986.
- Colland F, Jacq X, Trouplin V, etal . Functional proteomics mapping of a human signaling pathway. . Genome Res. . 14 . 7 . 1324–32 . 2004 . 15231748 . 10.1101/gr.2334104 . 442148.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, etal . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928.
- Wiemann S, Arlt D, Huber W, etal . From ORFeome to biology: a functional genomics pipeline. . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2136–44 . 2004 . 15489336 . 10.1101/gr.2576704 . 528930.
- Luboshits G, Benayahu D . MS-KIF18A, new kinesin; structure and cellular expression. . Gene . 351 . 19–28 . 2005 . 15878648 . 10.1016/j.gene.2005.02.009.
- Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, etal . Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes. . Genome Res. . 16 . 1 . 55–65 . 2006 . 16344560 . 10.1101/gr.4039406 . 1356129.
- Mehrle A, Rosenfelder H, Schupp I, etal . The LIFEdb database in 2006. . Nucleic Acids Res. . 34 . Database issue . D415–8 . 2006 . 16381901 . 10.1093/nar/gkj139 . 1347501.
- Nousiainen M, Silljé HH, Sauer G, etal . Phosphoproteome analysis of the human mitotic spindle. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 103 . 14 . 5391–6 . 2006 . 16565220 . 10.1073/pnas.0507066103 . 1459365 . 2006PNAS..103.5391N . free.
External links
- PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Kinesin-like protein KIF18A
Notes and References
- Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R, Gassenhuber J, Glassl S, Ansorge W, Bocher M, Blocker H, Bauersachs S, Blum H, Lauber J, Dusterhoft A, Beyer A, Kohrer K, Strack N, Mewes HW, Ottenwalder B, Obermaier B, Tampe J, Heubner D, Wambutt R, Korn B, Klein M, Poustka A . Toward a catalog of human genes and proteins: sequencing and analysis of 500 novel complete protein coding human cDNAs . Genome Res . 11 . 3 . 422–35 . Mar 2001 . 11230166 . 311072 . 10.1101/gr.GR1547R .
- Web site: Entrez Gene: KIF18A kinesin family member 18A.
- Mayr . Monika I. . Hümmer . Stefan . Bormann . Jenny . Grüner . Tamara . Adio . Sarah . Woehlke . Guenther . Mayer . Thomas U. . March 2007 . The Human Kinesin Kif18A Is a Motile Microtubule Depolymerase Essential for Chromosome Congression . Current Biology . English . 17 . 6 . 488–498 . 10.1016/j.cub.2007.02.036 . 0960-9822 . 17346968. free . 2007CBio...17..488M .