EntrezGeneSummary | TheproteinencodedbythisgeneisamemberoftheMAPkinasefamily.MAPkinases,alsoknownasextracellularsignal-regulatedkinases(ERKs),actasanintegrationpointformultiplebiochemicalsignals,andareinvolvedinawidevarietyofcellularprocessessuchasproliferation,differentiation,transcriptionregulationanddevelopment.Theactivationofthiskinaserequiresitsphosphorylationbyupstreamkinases.Uponactivation,thiskinasetranslocatestothenucleusofthestimulatedcells,whereitphosphorylatesnucleartargets.Twoalternativelysplicedtranscriptvariantsencodingthesameprotein,butdifferingintheUTRs,havebeenreportedforthisgene. |