MYLK
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 2CQV, 2K0F, 2YR3
Identifiers
Aliases	MYLK, AAT7, KRP, MLCK, MLCK1, MLCK108, MLCK210, MSTP083, MYLK1, smMLCK, myosin light chain kinase, MMIHS, MMIHS1, MYLK-L
External IDs	OMIM: 600922 MGI: 894806 HomoloGene: 14202 GeneCards: MYLK
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 3 (human)[1] Band 3q21.1 Start 123,610,049 bp[1] End 123,884,332 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 16 (mouse)[2] Band 16|16 B3 Start 34,565,580 bp[2] End 34,822,790 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in saphenous vein seminal vesicula nipple urethra vena cava superficial temporal artery myometrium caput epididymis corpus epididymis visceral pleura Top expressed in iris ascending aorta belly cord uterus aortic valve ciliary body cervix pineal gland left colon ileum More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function transferase activity nucleotide binding protein kinase activity metal ion binding calmodulin binding myosin light chain kinase activity kinase activity protein serine/threonine kinase activity protein binding actin binding ATP binding Cellular component cytoplasm cytosol cell projection stress fiber cleavage furrow cytoskeleton lamellipodium plasma membrane actin cytoskeleton Biological process smooth muscle contraction muscle contraction phosphorylation tonic smooth muscle contraction positive regulation of cell migration positive regulation of wound healing bleb assembly cellular hypotonic response protein phosphorylation aorta smooth muscle tissue morphogenesis positive regulation of calcium ion transport Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 4638 107589 Ensembl ENSG00000065534 ENSMUSG00000022836 UniProt Q15746 Q6PDN3 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001321309 NM_005965 NM_053025 NM_053026 NM_053027 NM_053028 NM_053029 NM_053030 NM_053031 NM_053032 NM_139300 RefSeq (protein) NP_001308238 NP_444253 NP_444254 NP_444255 NP_444256 NP_444259 NP_444260 NP_647461 NP_001395190 NP_001395191 NP_001395192 Location (UCSC) Chr 3: 123.61 – 123.88 Mb Chr 16: 34.57 – 34.82 Mb PubMed search [3] [4]
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Myosin light chain kinase, smooth muscle also known as kinase-related protein (KRP) or telokin is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the MYLK gene.^[5]

Function

This gene, a muscle member of the immunoglobulin superfamily, encodes a myosin light-chain kinase, which is a calcium-/calmodulin-dependent enzyme. This kinase phosphorylates myosin regulatory light chains to facilitate myosin interaction with actin filaments to produce contractile activity. This gene encodes both smooth muscle and nonmuscle isoforms. In addition, using a separate promoter in an intron in the 3' region, it encodes telokin, a small protein identical in sequence to the C-terminus of myosin light chain kinase, that is independently expressed in smooth muscle and functions to stabilize unphosphorylated myosin filaments. A pseudogene is located on the p arm of chromosome 3. Four transcript variants that produce four isoforms of the calcium/calmodulin dependent enzyme have been identified as well as two transcripts that produce two isoforms of telokin. Additional variants have been identified but lack full length transcripts.^[6]