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Chka - choline kinase alpha (house mouse)

Gene
Symbol
Dates
  • Create:
    2016-09-14
  • Modify:
    2025-01-25
Description
Enables choline kinase activity; cholinesterase activity; and identical protein binding activity. Acts upstream of or within phosphatidylcholine biosynthetic process. Predicted to be located in lipid droplet. Predicted to be active in cytosol. Is expressed in several structures, including future brain; gut; liver; metanephros; and neural retina. Orthologous to human CHKA (choline kinase alpha).

1 Names and Identifiers

1.1 Synonyms

  • CK
  • CK/EK-alpha
  • Chetk-alpha
  • Chk
  • ChoK
  • EK
  • EtnK-alpha
  • choline/ethanolamine kinase alpha
  • ethanolamine kinase

1.2 Other Identifiers

1.2.1 Ensembl ID

1.2.2 Alliance Gene ID

1.2.3 Bgee Gene ID

1.2.4 Enzyme Commission (EC) Number

1.2.5 MGI ID

1.2.6 VEuPathDB ID

1.2.7 Wikidata

3 Proteins

3.1 Protein Function

Plays a key role in phospholipid biosynthesis by catalyzing the phosphorylation of free choline to phosphocholine, the first step in phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. Also phosphorylates ethanolamine, thereby contributing to phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis. Has higher activity with choline.

This isoform plays a key role in lipolysis of lipid droplets following glucose deprivation (By similarity). In response to glucose deprivation, phosphorylated by AMPK, promoting localization to lipid droplets (By similarity). Phosphorylation is followed by acetylation by KAT5, leading to dissociation of the homodimer into a monomer (By similarity). Monomeric CHKA isoform 1 is converted into a tyrosine-protein kinase, which phosphorylates lipid droplet structural proteins PLIN2 and PLIN3, leading to lipolysis of lipid droplets (By similarity).

3.2 Protein Isoforms

Isoform
Isoform 1
UniProt ID
RefSeq Accession
Isoform
Isoform 2
UniProt ID
RefSeq Accession

3.3 Protein 3D Structures

3.3.1 AlphaFold Structures

Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature. 2021 Aug;596(7873):583-589. DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2. PMID:34265844; PMCID:PMC8371605

3.4 Protein Targets

4 BioAssays

4.1 RNAi BioAssays

5 Interactions and Pathways

5.1 Interactions

5.2 Pathways

6 Biochemical Reactions

7 Expression

8 Literature

8.1 Consolidated References

8.2 Gene-Chemical Co-Occurrences in Literature

8.3 Gene-Gene Co-Occurrences in Literature

8.4 Gene-Disease Co-Occurrences in Literature

9 Patents

9.1 Gene-Chemical Co-Occurrences in Patents

9.2 Gene-Gene Co-Occurrences in Patents

9.3 Gene-Disease Co-Occurrences in Patents

10 Classification

10.1 Gene Ontology: Biological Process

10.2 Gene Ontology: Cellular Component

10.3 Gene Ontology: Molecular Function

11 Information Sources

  1. NCBI Gene
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  2. PubChem
  3. Alliance of Genome Resources
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  4. BioGRID
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  5. STRING: functional protein association networks
  6. Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI)
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  7. NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
  8. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Bgee
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  9. UniProt
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  12. Gene Ontology (GO)
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  13. AlphaFold DB
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