Oreochromis niloticus      Other      PEK

※ PEK family introduction

    PEK family is composed of four kinase members, which are eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-alpha kinase. Family member EIF2AK1 can inhibits protein synthesis at the translation initiation level, in response to various stress conditions, including oxidative stress, heme deficiency, osmotic shock and heat shock. EIF2AK1 can exert its function through the phosphorylation of EIF2S1 at 'Ser-48' and 'Ser-51', thus preventing its recycling (1). EIF2AK2 can becomes autophosphorylated and can catalyze the phosphorylation of the translation initiation factor EIF2S1 following activation by double-stranded RNA in the presence of ATP (2). EIF2AK3 can phosphorylates the alpha subunit of eukaryotic translation-initiation factor 2 (EIF2), leading to its inactivation and thus to a rapid reduction of translational initiation and repression of global protein synthesis (3).

Reference
1. UniProt Annotation:   E2AK1_HUMAN;
2. UniProt Annotation:   E2AK2_HUMAN;
3. UniProt Annotation:   E2AK3_HUMAN;


There are 7 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (7

No.StatusEKPD IDGene IDGene Name
1
EKS-ORN-00444
ENSONIG00000019839
EIF2AK1
2
EKS-ORN-00448
ENSONIG00000010088
EIF2AK2 (1 of 4)
3
EKS-ORN-00446
ENSONIG00000010094
EIF2AK2 (3 of 4); EIF2AK2 (4 of 4)
4
EKS-ORN-00447
ENSONIG00000010095
EIF2AK2 (2 of 4); EIF2AK2 (4 of 4)
5
EKS-ORN-00445
ENSONIG00000010933
EIF2AK2 (2 of 4); EIF2AK2 (3 of 4)
6
EKS-ORN-00443
ENSONIG00000012130
EIF2AK4
7
EKS-ORN-00442
ENSONIG00000012314
EIF2AK3