Historical Background
VRK3 is a member of the vaccinia-related kinase family (Manning et al. 2002), which comprises a group of three proteins, of which two, VRK1 and VRK2, are catalytically active. VRK3 has substitutions in key residues within its catalytic domain and is under some conditions a pseudokinase without kinase activity (Nichols and Traktman 2004). The biological effects of VRK3 are mediated by protein-protein interactions. VRK3 can deactivate mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase signaling in the nucleus by activating phosphatases such as VHR, which dephosphorylates extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase (ERK), and reduces its ability to activate transcription. VRK3 kinase activity can be induced by its interaction with BAF that modifies the conformation of the vrk3 n-terminal domain (Park et al. 2015).
VRK3 Gene Expression
The human VRK3 gene is located in chromosome 19q13.33, has 15...
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Moura, D.S., Cantarero, L., Martín-Doncel, E., Campillo-Marcos, I., Lazo, P.A. (2018). VRK3. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_563
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