Kinesin family member KIF18A is a human protein encoded by the KIF18A gene. It is part of the kinesin family of motor proteins.
Function
KIF18A is a plus-end directed motor protein, and migrates to the plus ends of the spindle during early mitosis. It first accumulates there during prophase and metaphase, and is depleted during anaphase.
KIF18a(-/-) knockout in mice results in complete sterility in males, but not females, due to abnormal development of the seminiferous tubules. The mice were otherwise normal, suggesting KIF18a is not essential for cell divisions in non-germ cells.
Therapeutic Target
KIF18A has been considered as a cancer target because it is overexpressed in many cancer types and mouse studies suggest it is dispensable in somatic cells. As such, small molecule inhibitors of KIF18A have been developed to block its activity.
References
- ^ GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000121621 – Ensembl, May 2017
- ^ GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000027115 – Ensembl, May 2017
- "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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- "Entrez Gene: KIF18A kinesin family member 18A".
- Mayr MI, Hümmer S, Bormann J, Grüner T, Adio S, Woehlke G, et al. (March 2007). "The human kinesin Kif18A is a motile microtubule depolymerase essential for chromosome congression". Current Biology. 17 (6): 488–498. Bibcode:2007CBio...17..488M. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.02.036. PMID 17346968.
- Liu XS, Zhao XD, Wang X, Yao YX, Zhang LL, Shu RZ, et al. (January 2010). "Germinal Cell Aplasia in Kif18a Mutant Male Mice Due to Impaired Chromosome Congression and Dysregulated BubR1 and CENP-E". Genes & Cancer. 1 (1): 26–39. doi:10.1177/1947601909358184. PMC 2963078. PMID 20981276.
- ^ Payton M, Belmontes B, Hanestad K, Moriguchi J, Chen K, McCarter JD, et al. (January 2024). "Small-molecule inhibition of kinesin KIF18A reveals a mitotic vulnerability enriched in chromosomally unstable cancers". Nature Cancer. 5 (1): 66–84. doi:10.1038/s43018-023-00699-5. PMC 10824666. PMID 38151625.
Further reading
- Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA (November 2000). "DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination". Genome Research. 10 (11): 1788–1795. doi:10.1101/gr.143000. PMC 310948. PMID 11076863.
- Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, Derge JG, Klausner RD, Collins FS, et al. (December 2002). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99 (26): 16899–16903. Bibcode:2002PNAS...9916899M. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
- Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, Otsuki T, Sugiyama T, Irie R, et al. (January 2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nature Genetics. 36 (1): 40–45. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
- Bouwmeester T, Bauch A, Ruffner H, Angrand PO, Bergamini G, Croughton K, et al. (February 2004). "A physical and functional map of the human TNF-alpha/NF-kappa B signal transduction pathway". Nature Cell Biology. 6 (2): 97–105. doi:10.1038/ncb1086. PMID 14743216. S2CID 11683986.
- Colland F, Jacq X, Trouplin V, Mougin C, Groizeleau C, Hamburger A, et al. (July 2004). "Functional proteomics mapping of a human signaling pathway". Genome Research. 14 (7): 1324–1332. doi:10.1101/gr.2334104. PMC 442148. PMID 15231748.
- Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, Shenmen CM, Grouse LH, Schuler G, et al. (October 2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Research. 14 (10B): 2121–2127. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
- Wiemann S, Arlt D, Huber W, Wellenreuther R, Schleeger S, Mehrle A, et al. (October 2004). "From ORFeome to biology: a functional genomics pipeline". Genome Research. 14 (10B): 2136–2144. doi:10.1101/gr.2576704. PMC 528930. PMID 15489336.
- Luboshits G, Benayahu D (May 2005). "MS-KIF18A, new kinesin; structure and cellular expression". Gene. 351: 19–28. doi:10.1016/j.gene.2005.02.009. PMID 15878648.
- Kimura K, Wakamatsu A, Suzuki Y, Ota T, Nishikawa T, Yamashita R, et al. (January 2006). "Diversification of transcriptional modulation: large-scale identification and characterization of putative alternative promoters of human genes". Genome Research. 16 (1): 55–65. doi:10.1101/gr.4039406. PMC 1356129. PMID 16344560.
- Mehrle A, Rosenfelder H, Schupp I, del Val C, Arlt D, Hahne F, et al. (January 2006). "The LIFEdb database in 2006". Nucleic Acids Research. 34 (Database issue): D415–D418. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj139. PMC 1347501. PMID 16381901.
- Nousiainen M, Silljé HH, Sauer G, Nigg EA, Körner R (April 2006). "Phosphoproteome analysis of the human mitotic spindle". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 103 (14): 5391–5396. Bibcode:2006PNAS..103.5391N. doi:10.1073/pnas.0507066103. PMC 1459365. PMID 16565220.
External links
- PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Kinesin-like protein KIF18A
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