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MYLK

MYLK
Protein MYLK PDB 2cqv.png
Available structures
PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB
Identifiers
Aliases MYLK, AAT7, KRP, MLCK, MLCK1, MLCK108, MLCK210, MSTP083, MYLK1, smMLCK, myosin light chain kinase
External IDs MGI: 894806 HomoloGene: 14202 GeneCards: MYLK
RNA expression pattern
PBB GE MYLK 202555 s at fs.png
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species Human Mouse
Entrez
Ensembl
UniProt
RefSeq (mRNA)

NM_139300

RefSeq (protein)

NP_647461

Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 123.61 – 123.88 Mb Chr 16: 34.75 – 35 Mb
PubMed search

2CQV, 2K0F, 2YR3

NM_053029
NM_053030
NM_053031
NM_053032
NM_001321309

NM_139300

NP_444259
NP_444260

NP_647461

Myosin light chain kinase, smooth muscle also known as kinase-related protein (KRP) or telokin is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MYLK gene.

This gene, a muscle member of the immunoglobulin gene superfamily, encodes myosin light chain kinase which is a calcium/calmodulin dependent enzyme. This kinase phosphorylates myosin regulatory light chains to facilitate myosin interaction with actin filaments to produce contractile activity. This gene encodes both smooth muscle and nonmuscle isoforms. In addition, using a separate promoter in an intron in the 3' region, it encodes telokin, a small protein identical in sequence to the C-terminus of myosin light chain kinase, that is independently expressed in smooth muscle and functions to stabilize unphosphorylated myosin filaments. A pseudogene is located on the p arm of chromosome 3. Four transcript variants that produce four isoforms of the calcium/calmodulin dependent enzyme have been identified as well as two transcripts that produce two isoforms of telokin. Additional variants have been identified but lack full length transcripts.


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