MYLK2

Gene Information
  • Official Symbol: MYLK2
  • Official Name: myosin light chain kinase 2
  • Aliases and Previous Symbols: N/A
  • Entrez ID: 85366
  • UniProt: Q9H1R3
  • Interactions: BioGRID
  • PubMed articles: Open PubMed
  • OMIM: Open OMIM
Function Summary
  • Entrez Summary: This gene encodes a myosin light chain kinase, a calcium/calmodulin dependent enzyme, that is exclusively expressed in adult skeletal muscle. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008].
  • UniProt Summary: Implicated in the level of global muscle contraction and cardiac function. Phosphorylates a specific serine in the N- terminus of a myosin light chain. {ECO:0000269|PubMed:11733062}.

Pfam Domains GO Terms


CRISPR Data

Compound Hit Most Correlated Genes in Chemogenomics Tissues where Essential in the Avana Dataset (DepMap 20Q1)

Essentiality in NALM6
  • Essentiality Rank: 3829
  • Expression level (log2 read counts): 0.63

Expression Distribution

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