title: The identification and subcellular localization of human MRK.
abstract: A novel human kinase gene, human MRK (hMRK), was cloned by using degenerate RT-PCR. The hMRK encoded a putative 632 amino acids protein and was highly homologous to rat MRK (rMRK) in the entire coding region. The hMRK was located at chromosome 6p12.3 by RH-PCR analysis. The hMRK was generally expressed a single approximately 6.3 kb transcript at a low level in a variety of tissues except at a high level in testis. The full-length hMRK protein was fused to C-terminal of GFP and expressed in Hela cells. The fluorescence microscopy results identified its nuclear localization.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yunai
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Jiangye
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002877:Chromosomes, Human; D002896:Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6 / Q000235:genetics; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D015870:Gene Expression; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015202:Protein Engineering / Q000379:methods*; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000235:genetics*; D051381:Rats; D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*; D017385:Sequence Homology; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D011993:Recombinant Fusion Proteins; C097276:CILK1 protein, human; C484349:Cilk1 protein, rat; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases