TAOK2

TAOK2
Identifiers
Aliases	TAOK2, MAP3K17, PSK, PSK1, PSK1-BETA, TAO1, TAO2, TAO kinase 2, Tao2beta
External IDs	OMIM: 613199 MGI: 1915919 HomoloGene: 74531 GeneCards: TAOK2
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 16 (human) Band 16p11.2 Start 29,973,868 bp End 29,992,261 bp
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 7 (mouse) Band 7|7 F3 Start 126,464,850 bp End 126,483,875 bp
RNA expression pattern Bgee Human Mouse (ortholog) Top expressed in right lung anterior pituitary upper lobe of left lung right lobe of thyroid gland cingulate gyrus spleen left lobe of thyroid gland right uterine tube canal of the cervix tibial nerve Top expressed in superior frontal gyrus lip esophagus yolk sac spermatocyte thymus cerebellar cortex neural tube hand islet of Langerhans More reference expression data BioGPS More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function transferase activity nucleotide binding protein kinase activity kinase activity protein serine/threonine kinase activity mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase binding ATP binding MAP kinase kinase kinase activity neuropilin binding tau protein binding tau-protein kinase activity Cellular component integral component of membrane cell projection membrane receptor complex dendrite nucleolus cytoskeleton cytoplasmic vesicle membrane nucleus cytoplasm cytosol cytoplasmic vesicle actin cytoskeleton axon neuron projection dendritic growth cone axonal growth cone Biological process phosphorylation protein targeting to membrane response to stress positive regulation of JNK cascade cellular response to DNA damage stimulus protein phosphorylation focal adhesion assembly stress-activated MAPK cascade regulation of cell growth regulation of cell shape cell migration actin cytoskeleton organization positive regulation of stress-activated MAPK cascade apoptotic process regulation of mitotic cell cycle nervous system development regulation of apoptotic process mitotic G2 DNA damage checkpoint signaling axonogenesis signal transduction stress-activated protein kinase signaling cascade positive regulation of protein autophosphorylation activation of protein kinase activity regulation of actin cytoskeleton organization protein autophosphorylation basal dendrite morphogenesis basal dendrite arborization Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs Species Human Mouse Entrez 9344 381921 Ensembl ENSG00000149930 ENSMUSG00000059981 UniProt Q9UL54 Q6ZQ29 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_001252043 NM_004783 NM_016151 NM_001163774 NM_001163775 RefSeq (protein) NP_001238972 NP_004774 NP_057235 NP_001157246 NP_001157247 Location (UCSC) Chr 16: 29.97 – 29.99 Mb Chr 7: 126.46 – 126.48 Mb PubMed search
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Serine/threonine-protein kinase TAO2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the TAOK2 gene.

Interactions

TAOK2 has been shown to interact with MAP2K6 and MAP2K3.

Further reading

• Chen Z, Hutchison M, Cobb MH (October 1999). "Isolation of the protein kinase TAO2 and identification of its mitogen-activated protein kinase/extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase binding domain". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274 (40): 28803–28807. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.40.28803. PMID 10497253.
• Moore TM, Garg R, Johnson C, Coptcoat MJ, Ridley AJ, Morris JD (February 2000). "PSK, a novel STE20-like kinase derived from prostatic carcinoma that activates the c-Jun N-terminal kinase mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway and regulates actin cytoskeletal organization". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275 (6): 4311–4322. doi:10.1074/jbc.275.6.4311. PMID 10660600.
• Nakayama M, Kikuno R, Ohara O (November 2002). "Protein-protein interactions between large proteins: two-hybrid screening using a functionally classified library composed of long cDNAs". Genome Research. 12 (11): 1773–1784. doi:10.1101/gr.406902. PMC 187542. PMID 12421765.
• Mitsopoulos C, Zihni C, Garg R, Ridley AJ, Morris JD (May 2003). "The prostate-derived sterile 20-like kinase (PSK) regulates microtubule organization and stability". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278 (20): 18085–18091. doi:10.1074/jbc.M213064200. PMID 12639963.
• Chen Z, Raman M, Chen L, Lee SF, Gilman AG, Cobb MH (June 2003). "TAO (thousand-and-one amino acid) protein kinases mediate signaling from carbachol to p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and ternary complex factors". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 278 (25): 22278–22283. doi:10.1074/jbc.M301173200. PMID 12665513.
• Yustein JT, Xia L, Kahlenburg JM, Robinson D, Templeton D, Kung HJ (September 2003). "Comparative studies of a new subfamily of human Ste20-like kinases: homodimerization, subcellular localization, and selective activation of MKK3 and p38". Oncogene. 22 (40): 6129–6141. doi:10.1038/sj.onc.1206605. PMID 13679851.
• Huangfu WC, Omori E, Akira S, Matsumoto K, Ninomiya-Tsuji J (September 2006). "Osmotic stress activates the TAK1-JNK pathway while blocking TAK1-mediated NF-kappaB activation: TAO2 regulates TAK1 pathways". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 281 (39): 28802–28810. doi:10.1074/jbc.M603627200. PMC 1797068. PMID 16893890.
• Zihni C, Mitsopoulos C, Tavares IA, Baum B, Ridley AJ, Morris JD (March 2007). "Prostate-derived sterile 20-like kinase 1-alpha induces apoptosis. JNK- and caspase-dependent nuclear localization is a requirement for membrane blebbing". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 282 (9): 6484–6493. doi:10.1074/jbc.M608336200. PMID 17158878.
• Wojtala RL, Tavares IA, Morton PE, Valderrama F, Thomas NS, Morris JD (August 2011). "Prostate-derived sterile 20-like kinases (PSKs/TAOKs) are activated in mitosis and contribute to mitotic cell rounding and spindle positioning". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286 (34): 30161–30170. doi:10.1074/jbc.M111.228320. PMC 3191055. PMID 21705329.
• de Anda FC, Rosario AL, Durak O, Tran T, Gräff J, Meletis K, et al. (June 2012). "Autism spectrum disorder susceptibility gene TAOK2 affects basal dendrite formation in the neocortex". Nature Neuroscience. 15 (7): 1022–1031. doi:10.1038/nn.3141. PMC 4017029. PMID 22683681.
• Tavares IA, Touma D, Lynham S, Troakes C, Schober M, Causevic M, et al. (May 2013). "Prostate-derived sterile 20-like kinases (PSKs/TAOKs) phosphorylate tau protein and are activated in tangle-bearing neurons in Alzheimer disease". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 288 (21): 15418–15429. doi:10.1074/jbc.M112.448183. PMC 3663559. PMID 23585562.
• Koo CY, Giacomini C, Reyes-Corral M, Olmos Y, Tavares IA, Marson CM, et al. (November 2017). "Targeting TAO Kinases Using a New Inhibitor Compound Delays Mitosis and Induces Mitotic Cell Death in Centrosome Amplified Breast Cancer Cells". Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. 16 (11): 2410–2421. doi:10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-17-0077. PMID 28830982.
• Richter M, Murtaza N, Scharrenberg R, White SH, Johanns O, Walker S, et al. (September 2019). "Altered TAOK2 activity causes autism-related neurodevelopmental and cognitive abnormalities through RhoA signaling". Molecular Psychiatry. 24 (9): 1329–1350. doi:10.1038/s41380-018-0025-5. PMC 6756231. PMID 29467497.
• Giacomini C, Koo CY, Yankova N, Tavares IA, Wray S, Noble W, et al. (May 2018). "A new TAO kinase inhibitor reduces tau phosphorylation at sites associated with neurodegeneration in human tauopathies". Acta Neuropathologica Communications. 6 (1): 37. doi:10.1186/s40478-018-0539-8. PMC 5937037. PMID 29730992.
• Scharrenberg R, Richter M, Johanns O, Meka DP, Rücker T, Murtaza N, et al. (September 2022). "TAOK2 rescues autism-linked developmental deficits in a 16p11.2 microdeletion mouse model". Molecular Psychiatry. 27 (11): 4707–4721. doi:10.1038/s41380-022-01785-3. PMC 9734055. PMID 36123424. S2CID 252382956.