ID:CHKB_HUMAN DESCRIPTION: RecName: Full=Choline/ethanolamine kinase; AltName: Full=Choline kinase beta; Short=CK; Short=CKB; EC=2.7.1.32; AltName: Full=Choline kinase-like protein; AltName: Full=Ethanolamine kinase; Short=EK; EC=2.7.1.82; AltName: Full=Ethanolamine kinase beta; Short=EKB; AltName: Full=choline/ethanolamine kinase beta; Short=CKEKB; FUNCTION: Has a key role in phospholipid biosynthesis. Catalyzes the first step in phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis. Phosphorylates ethanolamine, and can also act on choline (in vitro). Has higher activity with ethanolamine. May not significantly contribute to in vivo phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: ATP + choline = ADP + phosphocholine. CATALYTIC ACTIVITY: ATP + ethanolamine = ADP + O- phosphoethanolamine. BIOPHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES: Kinetic parameters: KM=0.57 mM for choline; KM=2.9 mM for ethanolamine; PATHWAY: Phospholipid metabolism; phosphatidylethanolamine biosynthesis; phosphatidylethanolamine from ethanolamine: step 1/3. SUBUNIT: Homodimer, and heterodimer with CHKA. MISCELLANEOUS: This protein is produced by a bicistronic gene which also produces the CPT1B protein from a non-overlapping reading frame. SIMILARITY: Belongs to the choline/ethanolamine kinase family. SEQUENCE CAUTION: Sequence=AAB03342.2; Type=Erroneous gene model prediction;
The RNAfold program from the Vienna RNA Package is used to perform the secondary structure predictions and folding calculations. The estimated folding energy is in kcal/mol. The more negative the energy, the more secondary structure the RNA is likely to have.
ModBase Predicted Comparative 3D Structure on Q9Y259
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Orthologous Genes in Other Species
Orthologies between human, mouse, and rat are computed by taking the best BLASTP hit, and filtering out non-syntenic hits. For more distant species reciprocal-best BLASTP hits are used. Note that the absence of an ortholog in the table below may reflect incomplete annotations in the other species rather than a true absence of the orthologous gene.