KLK4

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Kallikrein-related peptidase 4
PDB rendering based on 2bdg.
Available structures: 2bdg, 2bdh, 2bdi
Identifiers
Symbols KLK4; ARM1; EMSP; EMSP1; KLK-L1; MGC116827; MGC116828; PRSS17; PSTS
External IDs OMIM: 603767 MGI: 1861379 HomoloGene: 55856
RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data
Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 9622 56640
Ensembl ENSG00000167749 ENSMUSG00000006948
Uniprot Q9Y5K2 n/a
Refseq XM_001134318 (mRNA)
XP_001134318 (protein)		 NM_019928 (mRNA)
NP_064312 (protein)
Location Chr 19: 56.1 - 56.11 Mb Chr 7: 43.75 - 43.75 Mb
Pubmed search [1] [2]

Kallikrein-related peptidase 4, also known as KLK4, is a human gene.[1]

Kallikreins are a subgroup of serine proteases having diverse physiological functions. Growing evidence suggests that many kallikreins are implicated in carcinogenesis and some have potential as novel cancer and other disease biomarkers. This gene is one of the fifteen kallikrein subfamily members located in a cluster on chromosome 19. In some tissues its expression is hormonally regulated. The expression pattern of a similar mouse protein in murine developing teeth supports a role for the protein in the degradation of enamel proteins. Alternate splice variants for this gene have been described, but their biological validity has not been determined.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Entrez Gene: KLK4 kallikrein-related peptidase 4".

Further reading

  • Clements J, Hooper J, Dong Y, Harvey T (2001). "The expanded human kallikrein (KLK) gene family: genomic organisation, tissue-specific expression and potential functions.". Biol. Chem. 382 (1): 5–14. PMID 11258672. 
  • Simmer JP, Fukae M, Tanabe T, et al. (1998). "Purification, characterization, and cloning of enamel matrix serine proteinase 1.". J. Dent. Res. 77 (2): 377–86. PMID 9465170. 
  • Nelson PS, Gan L, Ferguson C, et al. (1999). "Molecular cloning and characterization of prostase, an androgen-regulated serine protease with prostate-restricted expression.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 96 (6): 3114–9. PMID 10077646. 
  • Stephenson SA, Verity K, Ashworth LK, Clements JA (1999). "Localization of a new prostate-specific antigen-related serine protease gene, KLK4, is evidence for an expanded human kallikrein gene family cluster on chromosome 19q13.3-13.4.". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (33): 23210–4. PMID 10438493. 
  • Yousef GM, Obiezu CV, Luo LY, et al. (1999). "Prostase/KLK-L1 is a new member of the human kallikrein gene family, is expressed in prostate and breast tissues, and is hormonally regulated.". Cancer Res. 59 (17): 4252–6. PMID 10485467. 
  • DuPont BR, Hu CC, Reveles X, Simmer JP (2000). "Assignment of serine protease 17 (PRSS17) to human chromosome bands 19q13.3-->q13.4 by in situ hybridization.". Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 86 (3-4): 212–3. PMID 10575207. 
  • Hu JC, Zhang C, Sun X, et al. (2000). "Characterization of the mouse and human PRSS17 genes, their relationship to other serine proteases, and the expression of PRSS17 in developing mouse incisors.". Gene 251 (1): 1–8. PMID 10863090. 
  • Gan L, Lee I, Smith R, et al. (2001). "Sequencing and expression analysis of the serine protease gene cluster located in chromosome 19q13 region.". Gene 257 (1): 119–30. PMID 11054574. 
  • Obiezu CV, Diamandis EP (2001). "An alternatively spliced variant of KLK4 expressed in prostatic tissue.". Clin. Biochem. 33 (7): 599–600. PMID 11124349. 
  • Takayama TK, Carter CA, Deng T (2001). "Activation of prostate-specific antigen precursor (pro-PSA) by prostin, a novel human prostatic serine protease identified by degenerate PCR.". Biochemistry 40 (6): 1679–87. PMID 11327827. 
  • Korkmaz KS, Korkmaz CG, Pretlow TG, Saatcioglu F (2001). "Distinctly different gene structure of KLK4/KLK-L1/prostase/ARM1 compared with other members of the kallikrein family: intracellular localization, alternative cDNA forms, and Regulation by multiple hormones.". DNA Cell Biol. 20 (7): 435–45. doi:10.1089/104454901750361497. PMID 11506707. 
  • Takayama TK, McMullen BA, Nelson PS, et al. (2002). "Characterization of hK4 (prostase), a prostate-specific serine protease: activation of the precursor of prostate specific antigen (pro-PSA) and single-chain urokinase-type plasminogen activator and degradation of prostatic acid phosphatase.". Biochemistry 40 (50): 15341–8. PMID 11735417. 
  • Hural JA, Friedman RS, McNabb A, et al. (2002). "Identification of naturally processed CD4 T cell epitopes from the prostate-specific antigen kallikrein 4 using peptide-based in vitro stimulation.". J. Immunol. 169 (1): 557–65. PMID 12077288. 
  • Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932. 
  • Grimwood J, Gordon LA, Olsen A, et al. (2004). "The DNA sequence and biology of human chromosome 19.". Nature 428 (6982): 529–35. doi:10.1038/nature02399. PMID 15057824. 
  • Xi Z, Klokk TI, Korkmaz K, et al. (2004). "Kallikrein 4 is a predominantly nuclear protein and is overexpressed in prostate cancer.". Cancer Res. 64 (7): 2365–70. PMID 15059887. 
  • Hart PS, Hart TC, Michalec MD, et al. (2004). "Mutation in kallikrein 4 causes autosomal recessive hypomaturation amelogenesis imperfecta.". J. Med. Genet. 41 (7): 545–9. PMID 15235027. 
  • Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC).". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334. 
  • Veveris-Lowe TL, Lawrence MG, Collard RL, et al. (2005). "Kallikrein 4 (hK4) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) are associated with the loss of E-cadherin and an epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT)-like effect in prostate cancer cells.". Endocr. Relat. Cancer 12 (3): 631–43. doi:10.1677/erc.1.00958. PMID 16172196. 
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