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A novel serine/threonine kinase gene, STK33 , on human chromosome 11p15.3
2001
Human chromosomal region 11p15 is known to be associated with several diseases including predispositions to develop various tumor types. In search of candidate genes, a novel human kinase gene is described, STK33, which codes for a serine/threonine protein kinase. The gene was discovered by comparative genome analysis of human chromosome 11p15.3 and its orthologous region on distal mouse chromosome 7. Human STK33 gene contains 12 exons as has been determined by the comparison to the full-length transcript amplified from human uterus RNA. Transcripts are found in a variety of tissues in at least two alternatively spliced forms as revealed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction, c…
The Parkinson Disease Gene LRRK2: Evolutionary and Structural Insights
2006
Mutations in the human leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) gene are associated with both familial and sporadic Parkinson disease (PD). LRRK2 belongs to a gene family known as Roco. Roco genes encode for large proteins with several protein domains. Particularly, all Roco proteins have a characteristic GTPase domain, named Roc, plus a domain of unknown function called COR. In addition, LRRK2 and several other Roco proteins also contain a protein kinase domain. In this study, I use a combination of phylogenetic and structural analyses of the COR, Roc, and kinase domains present in Roco proteins to describe the origin and evolutionary history of LRRK2. Phylogenetic analyses using these domains…