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    PRKAA2 protein kinase AMP-activated catalytic subunit alpha 2 [ Homo sapiens (human) ]

    Gene ID: 5563, updated on 28-Oct-2024

    Summary

    Official Symbol
    PRKAA2provided by HGNC
    Official Full Name
    protein kinase AMP-activated catalytic subunit alpha 2provided by HGNC
    Primary source
    HGNC:HGNC:9377
    See related
    Ensembl:ENSG00000162409 MIM:600497; AllianceGenome:HGNC:9377
    Gene type
    protein coding
    RefSeq status
    VALIDATED
    Organism
    Homo sapiens
    Lineage
    Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo
    Also known as
    AMPK; AMPK2; PRKAA; AMPKa2
    Summary
    The protein encoded by this gene is a catalytic subunit of the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK). AMPK is a heterotrimer consisting of an alpha catalytic subunit, and non-catalytic beta and gamma subunits. AMPK is an important energy-sensing enzyme that monitors cellular energy status. In response to cellular metabolic stresses, AMPK is activated, and thus phosphorylates and inactivates acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) and beta-hydroxy beta-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase (HMGCR), key enzymes involved in regulating de novo biosynthesis of fatty acid and cholesterol. Studies of the mouse counterpart suggest that this catalytic subunit may control whole-body insulin sensitivity and is necessary for maintaining myocardial energy homeostasis during ischemia. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
    Expression
    Biased expression in heart (RPKM 14.0), kidney (RPKM 6.8) and 8 other tissues See more
    Orthologs
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    Genomic context

    See PRKAA2 in Genome Data Viewer
    Location:
    1p32.2
    Exon count:
    10
    Annotation release Status Assembly Chr Location
    RS_2024_08 current GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40) 1 NC_000001.11 (56645314..56715335)
    RS_2024_08 current T2T-CHM13v2.0 (GCF_009914755.1) 1 NC_060925.1 (56524182..56594202)
    RS_2024_09 previous assembly GRCh37.p13 (GCF_000001405.25) 1 NC_000001.10 (57110987..57181008)

    Chromosome 1 - NC_000001.11Genomic Context describing neighboring genes Neighboring gene phospholipid phosphatase 3 Neighboring gene H3K27ac-H3K4me1 hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr1:57014771-57015346 Neighboring gene OCT4-NANOG-H3K27ac hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr1:57015922-57016496 Neighboring gene ribosomal protein L21 pseudogene 23 Neighboring gene OCT4-NANOG hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr1:57042654-57043221 Neighboring gene ribosomal protein L23a pseudogene 85 Neighboring gene uncharacterized LOC101929935 Neighboring gene NANOG hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr1:57230284-57230838 Neighboring gene FYN binding protein 2 Neighboring gene Neanderthal introgressed variant-containing enhancer experimental_8694 Neighboring gene Neanderthal introgressed variant-containing enhancer experimental_8756 Neighboring gene ATAC-STARR-seq lymphoblastoid active region 1079 Neighboring gene complement C8 alpha chain

    Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

    Expression

    • Project title: HPA RNA-seq normal tissues HPA RNA-seq normal tissues
    • Description: RNA-seq was performed of tissue samples from 95 human individuals representing 27 different tissues in order to determine tissue-specificity of all protein-coding genes
    • BioProject: PRJEB4337
    • Publication: PMID 24309898
    • Analysis date: Wed Apr 4 07:08:55 2018

    Bibliography

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    Phenotypes

    EBI GWAS Catalog

    Description
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    EBI GWAS Catalog

    HIV-1 interactions

    Protein interactions

    Protein Gene Interaction Pubs
    Tat tat HIV-1 Tat-induced LTR transactivation is reversed by tanshinone II A through the AMPK-Nampt pathway PubMed
    tat Knockdown of SIRT1 by its inhibitor or siRNA results in Tat-mediated reduction of phosphorylation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and downstream acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) PubMed
    Vif vif Protein kinase A (PKA) binds and phosphorylates A3G at Thr32 in vitro and in vivo. This phosphorylation event reduces the binding of A3G to Vif and its subsequent ubiquitination and degradation PubMed
    Vpr vpr HIV-1 Vpr directly interacts with PKA and is phosphorylated at position Ser79 by PKA. PKA activity is necessary for virion-delivered Vpr cell cycle arrest PubMed

    Go to the HIV-1, Human Interaction Database

    Pathways from PubChem

    Interactions

    Products Interactant Other Gene Complex Source Pubs Description

    General gene information

    Markers

    Gene Ontology Provided by GOA

    Function Evidence Code Pubs
    enables AMP-activated protein kinase activity IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    enables AMP-activated protein kinase activity ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    enables ATP binding IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    enables [hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase (NADPH)] kinase activity IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    enables chromatin binding ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    enables histone H2AS1 kinase activity IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    enables histone H2BS36 kinase activity ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    enables metal ion binding IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    enables protein binding IPI
    Inferred from Physical Interaction
    more info
    PubMed 
    enables protein kinase activity TAS
    Traceable Author Statement
    more info
    PubMed 
    enables protein serine kinase activity IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    enables protein serine/threonine kinase activity IBA
    Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
    more info
     
    enables protein serine/threonine kinase activity IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    enables protein serine/threonine kinase activity ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    enables protein serine/threonine kinase activity TAS
    Traceable Author Statement
    more info
     
    enables protein serine/threonine/tyrosine kinase activity IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    Process Evidence Code Pubs
    involved_in Wnt signaling pathway IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in autophagy IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in cellular response to calcium ion ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in cellular response to glucose starvation IBA
    Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
    more info
     
    involved_in cellular response to glucose starvation IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    involved_in cellular response to glucose stimulus ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in cellular response to nutrient levels IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    involved_in cellular response to nutrient levels ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in cellular response to nutrient levels NAS
    Non-traceable Author Statement
    more info
    PubMed 
    involved_in cellular response to oxidative stress ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in cellular response to prostaglandin E stimulus IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in cellular response to xenobiotic stimulus IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in cholesterol biosynthetic process IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in chromatin remodeling IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in energy homeostasis ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in fatty acid biosynthetic process IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in fatty acid homeostasis ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in glucose homeostasis ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in lipid biosynthetic process ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    acts_upstream_of_positive_effect lipid droplet disassembly IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    involved_in negative regulation of TOR signaling IBA
    Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
    more info
     
    involved_in negative regulation of TOR signaling ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in negative regulation of TORC1 signaling IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    involved_in negative regulation of apoptotic process ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in negative regulation of gene expression ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in negative regulation of hepatocyte apoptotic process IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    involved_in negative regulation of tubulin deacetylation ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in positive regulation of autophagy ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in positive regulation of glycolytic process ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in positive regulation of macroautophagy TAS
    Traceable Author Statement
    more info
    PubMed 
    involved_in positive regulation of peptidyl-lysine acetylation ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in positive regulation of protein localization ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in protein localization to lipid droplet IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    involved_in protein phosphorylation IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in regulation of circadian rhythm ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in regulation of macroautophagy ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in regulation of microtubule cytoskeleton organization ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    involved_in regulation of stress granule assembly IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in response to muscle activity IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in rhythmic process IEA
    Inferred from Electronic Annotation
    more info
     
    involved_in signal transduction TAS
    Traceable Author Statement
    more info
    PubMed 
    Component Evidence Code Pubs
    located_in Golgi apparatus IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
     
    located_in axon ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    is_active_in cytoplasm IBA
    Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
    more info
     
    located_in cytoplasmic stress granule ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    located_in cytosol TAS
    Traceable Author Statement
    more info
     
    located_in dendrite ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    located_in neuronal cell body ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    located_in nuclear speck IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
     
    located_in nucleoplasm TAS
    Traceable Author Statement
    more info
     
    part_of nucleotide-activated protein kinase complex IBA
    Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
    more info
     
    part_of nucleotide-activated protein kinase complex IPI
    Inferred from Physical Interaction
    more info
    PubMed 
    part_of nucleotide-activated protein kinase complex ISS
    Inferred from Sequence or Structural Similarity
    more info
     
    is_active_in nucleus IBA
    Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
    more info
     
    located_in nucleus IDA
    Inferred from Direct Assay
    more info
    PubMed 
    located_in nucleus TAS
    Traceable Author Statement
    more info
    PubMed 

    General protein information

    Preferred Names
    5'-AMP-activated protein kinase catalytic subunit alpha-2
    Names
    5'-AMP-activated protein kinase, catalytic alpha-2 chain
    ACACA kinase
    AMPK alpha 2
    AMPK subunit alpha-2
    AMPK-alpha-2 chain
    HMGCR kinase
    acetyl-CoA carboxylase kinase
    hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA reductase kinase
    protein kinase, AMP-activated, alpha 2 catalytic subunit
    NP_006243.2
    XP_016857182.1
    XP_054193514.1

    NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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    RefSeqs maintained independently of Annotated Genomes

    These reference sequences exist independently of genome builds. Explain

    These reference sequences are curated independently of the genome annotation cycle, so their versions may not match the RefSeq versions in the current genome build. Identify version mismatches by comparing the version of the RefSeq in this section to the one reported in Genomic regions, transcripts, and products above.

    mRNA and Protein(s)

    1. NM_006252.4NP_006243.2  5'-AMP-activated protein kinase catalytic subunit alpha-2

      See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_006243.2

      Status: VALIDATED

      Source sequence(s)
      AC099789, AL035705, BC069740, BM979925, DA710012
      Consensus CDS
      CCDS605.1
      UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
      P54646, Q9H1E8, Q9UD43
      UniProtKB/TrEMBL
      A0MZF5, B2RA25
      Related
      ENSP00000360290.4, ENST00000371244.9
      Conserved Domains (3) summary
      cd12200
      Location:395550
      AMPKA2_C; C-terminal regulatory domain of 5'-AMP-activated serine/threonine kinase, subunit alpha
      cd14404
      Location:285349
      UBA_AID_AAPK2; UBA-like autoinhibitory domain (AID) found in vertebrate 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase catalytic subunit alpha-2 (AMPKalpha-2)
      cd14079
      Location:13268
      STKc_AMPK_alpha; Catalytic domain of the Alpha subunit of the Serine/Threonine Kinase, AMP-activated protein kinase

    RefSeqs of Annotated Genomes: GCF_000001405.40-RS_2024_08

    The following sections contain reference sequences that belong to a specific genome build. Explain

    Reference GRCh38.p14 Primary Assembly

    Genomic

    1. NC_000001.11 Reference GRCh38.p14 Primary Assembly

      Range
      56645314..56715335
      Download
      GenBank, FASTA, Sequence Viewer (Graphics)

    mRNA and Protein(s)

    1. XM_017001693.2XP_016857182.1  5'-AMP-activated protein kinase catalytic subunit alpha-2 isoform X1

      UniProtKB/TrEMBL
      A0MZF5
      Conserved Domains (3) summary
      cd12200
      Location:305460
      AMPKA2_C; C-terminal regulatory domain of 5'-AMP-activated serine/threonine kinase, subunit alpha
      cd14404
      Location:195259
      UBA_AID_AAPK2; UBA-like autoinhibitory domain (AID) found in vertebrate 5'-AMP-activated protein kinase catalytic subunit alpha-2 (AMPKalpha-2)
      cl21453
      Location:1178
      PKc_like; Protein Kinases, catalytic domain

    Alternate T2T-CHM13v2.0

    Genomic

    1. NC_060925.1 Alternate T2T-CHM13v2.0

      Range
      56524182..56594202
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      GenBank, FASTA, Sequence Viewer (Graphics)

    mRNA and Protein(s)

    1. XM_054337539.1XP_054193514.1  5'-AMP-activated protein kinase catalytic subunit alpha-2 isoform X1