MAP4K2

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the serine/threonine protein kinase family. Although this kinase is found in many tissues, its expression in lymphoid follicles is restricted to the cells of germinal centre, where it may participate in B-cell differentiation. This kinase can be activated by TNF-alpha, and has been shown to specifically activate MAP kinases. This kinase is also found to interact with TNF receptor-associated factor 2 (TRAF2), which is involved in the activation of MAP3K1/MEKK1. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Apr 2015]

Description

Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase 2

Tissue specificity

Low tissue specificity

Subcell location

Vesicles

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Enzymes
Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Metabolic proteins
Plasma proteins
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

11 (64784918 - 64803241)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000168067  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Map4k2: ENSMUSG00000024948

UniProt

Q12851

neXtProt

NX_Q12851

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure