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Facts about Serine/threonine-protein kinase Nek4.
Required for normal cell cycle arrest in response to double-stranded DNA damage. .
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | NEK4 |
| Uniprot: | P51957 |
| Entrez: | 6787 |

| Belongs to: |
|---|
| protein kinase superfamily |

Serine/threonine-protein kinase Nek4
Mass (kDA):
94.597 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 3p21.1 |
| Sequence: | 3; NC_000003.12 (52708444..52770949, complement) |
Highest expression in adult heart, followed by pancreas, skeletal muscle, brain, testis, retina, liver, kidney, lung and placenta. Present in most primary carcinomas.
Cell projection, cilium. Cytoplasm.


PMID: 8208544 by Levedakou E.N., et al. Two novel human serine/threonine kinases with homologies to the cell cycle regulating Xenopus MO15, and NIMA kinases: cloning and characterization of their expression pattern.
PMID: 21685204 by Coene K.L., et al. The ciliopathy-associated protein homologs RPGRIP1 and RPGRIP1L are linked to cilium integrity through interaction with Nek4 serine/threonine kinase.