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Facts about Serine/threonine-protein kinase PAK 1.
Activated by discussion with CDC42 and RAC1. Functions as GTPase effector that links the Rho-related GTPases CDC42 and RAC1 to the JNK MAP kinase pathway.
Human | |
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Gene Name: | PAK1 |
Uniprot: | Q13153 |
Entrez: | 5058 |
Belongs to: |
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protein kinase superfamily |
alpha-PAK; EC 2.7.11; EC 2.7.11.1; MGC130000; MGC130001; p21 protein (Cdc42/Rac)-activated kinase 1; p21/Cdc42/Rac1-activated kinase 1 (STE20 homolog, yeast); p21/Cdc42/Rac1-activated kinase 1 (yeast Ste20-related); p21-activated kinase 1; p65-PAK; PAK1; PAK-1; PAKalpha; serine/threonine-protein kinase PAK 1; STE20 homolog, yeast
Mass (kDA):
60.647 kDA
Human | |
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Location: | 11q13.5-q14.1 |
Sequence: | 11; NC_000011.10 (77322017..77514957, complement) |
Overexpressed in gastric cancer cells and tissues (at protein level) (PubMed:25766321).
Cytoplasm. Cell junction, focal adhesion. Cell membrane. Cell projection, ruffle membrane. Cell projection, invadopodium. Nucleus, nucleoplasm. Chromosome. Colocalizes with RUFY3, F-actin and other core migration components in invadopodia at the cell periphery (PubMed:25766321). Recruited to the cell membrane by interaction with CDC42 and RAC1. Recruited to focal adhesions upon activation. Colocalized with CIB1 within membrane ruffles during cell spreading upon readhesion to fibronectin. Upon DNA damage, translocates to the nucleoplasm when phosphorylated at Thr-212 where is co-recruited with
PMID: 8805275 by Brown J.L., et al. Human Ste20 homologue hPAK1 links GTPases to the JNK MAP kinase pathway.
PMID: 9395435 by Sells M.A., et al. Human p21-activated kinase (Pak1) regulates actin organization in mammalian cells.