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Facts about Maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase.
Acts as a regulator of cell cycle, especially by mediating phosphorylation of CDC25B, promoting localization of CDC25B to the centrosome and the spindle poles during mitosis. Plays a key role in cell proliferation and carcinogenesis.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | MELK |
| Uniprot: | Q14680 |
| Entrez: | 9833 |

| Belongs to: |
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| protein kinase superfamily |

EC 2.7.11; EC 2.7.11.1; hMELK; HPK38; KIAA0175pEg3 kinase; maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase; MELK; PK38; Protein kinase PK38
Mass (kDA):
74.642 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 9p13.2 |
| Sequence: | 9; NC_000009.12 (36572862..36677683) |
Expressed in placenta, kidney, thymus, testis, ovary and intestine.
Cell membrane; Peripheral membrane protein.





PMID: 11802789 by Seong H.-A., et al. Phosphorylation of a novel zinc-finger-like protein, ZPR9, by murine protein serine/threonine kinase 38 (MPK38).
PMID: 12400006 by Davezac N., et al. Human pEg3 kinase associates with and phosphorylates CDC25B phosphatase: a potential role for pEg3 in cell cycle regulation.