NEK3

NEK3
Identifiers
Aliases	NEK3, HSPK36, NIMA related kinase 3
External IDs	OMIM: 604044 MGI: 1344371 HomoloGene: 1869 GeneCards: NEK3
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 13 (human) Band 13q14.3 Start 52,132,639 bp End 52,159,861 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 8 (mouse) Band 8 A2|8 11.07 cM Start 22,618,299 bp End 22,656,451 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in sural nerve rectum corpus callosum Achilles tendon gastric mucosa canal of the cervix subcutaneous adipose tissue right lung internal globus pallidus ascending aorta Top expressed in fossa medullary collecting duct trigeminal ganglion facial motor nucleus superior cervical ganglion urothelium condyle renal corpuscle internal carotid artery external carotid artery More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function ATP binding protein kinase activity protein binding kinase activity metal ion binding nucleotide binding transferase activity protein serine/threonine kinase activity Cellular component cell projection axon nucleus cytoplasm Biological process establishment of cell polarity cell cycle phosphorylation cell division neuron projection morphogenesis regulation of tubulin deacetylation protein phosphorylation mitotic cell cycle Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 4752 23954 Ensembl ENSG00000136098 ENSMUSG00000031478 UniProt P51956 Q9R0A5 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001146099 NM_002498 NM_152720 NM_001162947 NM_011848 RefSeq (protein) NP_001139571 NP_002489 NP_689933 NP_001156419 NP_035978 Location (UCSC) Chr 13: 52.13 – 52.16 Mb Chr 8: 22.62 – 22.66 Mb PubMed search
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Serine/threonine-protein kinase Nek3 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NEK3 gene.

In Aspergillus nidulans, lack of the serine/threonine kinase NimA (never in mitosis A) results in cell cycle arrest in G2, while overexpression causes the premature onset of mitotic events. The protein encoded by this gene is similar in sequence to the Aspergillus nidulans protein and may therefore play a role in mitotic regulation. However, the encoded protein differs from other NimA family members in that it is not cell cycle regulated and is found primarily in the cytoplasm. Three transcript variants have been found for this gene, but the full-length nature of only two of them has been characterized.

Further reading

• Bonaldo MF, Lennon G, Soares MB (1997). "Normalization and subtraction: two approaches to facilitate gene discovery". Genome Res. 6 (9): 791–806. doi:10.1101/gr.6.9.791. PMID 8889548.
• Tanaka K, Nigg EA (1999). "Cloning and characterization of the murine Nek3 protein kinase, a novel member of the NIMA family of putative cell cycle regulators". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (19): 13491–7. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.19.13491. PMID 10224116.
• Kimura M, Okano Y (2002). "Molecular cloning and characterization of the human NIMA-related protein kinase 3 gene (NEK3)". Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 95 (3–4): 177–82. doi:10.1159/000059342. PMID 12063396. S2CID 25785949.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Ballif BA, Villén J, Beausoleil SA, et al. (2005). "Phosphoproteomic analysis of the developing mouse brain". Mol. Cell. Proteomics. 3 (11): 1093–101. doi:10.1074/mcp.M400085-MCP200. PMID 15345747.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Miller SL, DeMaria JE, Freier DO, et al. (2005). "Novel association of Vav2 and Nek3 modulates signaling through the human prolactin receptor". Mol. Endocrinol. 19 (4): 939–49. doi:10.1210/me.2004-0443. PMID 15618286.
• Hernández M, Almeida TA (2007). "Is there any association between nek3 and cancers with frequent 13q14 deletion?". Cancer Invest. 24 (7): 682–8. doi:10.1080/07357900600981364. PMID 17118778. S2CID 33072654.
• Miller SL, Antico G, Raghunath PN, et al. (2007). "Nek3 kinase regulates prolactin-mediated cytoskeletal reorganization and motility of breast cancer cells". Oncogene. 26 (32): 4668–78. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1210264. PMID 17297458.