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Designing a Western blot for Cyclin-dependent kinase 2? The guide has the expected band size, antibodies backed by real blot images, the controls to run alongside, and protocols taken from published papers.
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Facts about Cyclin-dependent kinase 2.
Acts in the G1-S transition to advertise the E2F transcriptional program and the initiation of DNA synthesis, and modulates G2 development; controls the timing of entry into mitosis/meiosis by controlling the subsequent activation of cyclin B/CDK1 by phosphorylation, and coordinates the activation of cyclin B/CDK1 in the centrosome and in the nucleus. Activity of CDK2 is maximal during S phase and G2; activated by interaction with cyclin E during the first stages of DNA synthesis to allow G1-S transition, and then activated by cyclin A2 (cyclin A1 in germ cells) during the late stages of DNA replication to induce the transition from S phase to mitosis, the G2 phase.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | CDK2 |
| Uniprot: | P24941 |
| Entrez: | 1017 |

| Belongs to: |
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| protein kinase superfamily |

cdc2-related protein kinase; CDK2; cell devision kinase 2; Cell division protein kinase 2; cyclin-dependent kinase 2; EC 2.7.11; EC 2.7.11.22; p33 protein kinase; p33(CDK2)
Mass (kDA):
33.93 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 12q13.2 |
| Sequence: | 12; NC_000012.12 (55966830..55972789) |
Cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, microtubule organizing center, centrosome. Nucleus, Cajal body. Cytoplasm. Endosome. Localized at the centrosomes in late G2 phase after separation of the centrosomes but before the start of prophase. Nuclear-cytoplasmic trafficking is mediated during the inhibition by 1,25-(OH)(2)D(3).






PMID: 1714386 by Elledge S.J., et al. A new human p34 protein kinase, CDK2, identified by complementation of a cdc28 mutation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a homolog of Xenopus Eg1.
PMID: 1653904 by Tsai L.-H., et al. Isolation of the human cdk2 gene that encodes the cyclin A- and adenovirus E1A-associated p33 kinase.
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