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WNK2

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Species
  
Human

Entrez
  
65268

Human
  
Mouse

Ensembl
  
ENSG00000165238

Aliases
  
WNK2, NY-CO-43, P/OKcl.13, PRKSDCCAG43, WNK lysine deficient protein kinase 2

External IDs
  
MGI: 1922857 HomoloGene: 19155 GeneCards: WNK2

Serine/threonine-protein kinase WNK2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the WNK2 gene.

The protein encoded by this gene is a cytoplasmic serine-threonine kinase that contains cysteine in place of the lysine found at the conserved ATP-binding location in subdomain II of protein kinases. Since this protein does have kinase activity, it is possible that another lysine in the kinase subdomain I can substitute for the missing conserved lysine.

References

WNK2 Wikipedia