Kinesins (Homo sapiens)

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4, 10, 11, 166, 7, 13, 17, 18, 20...25159, 238, 14, 275, 21220, 263, 12, 241, 19, 22Kinesin-13 dimers[cytosol]KIF3A partners[cytosol]KIF3A partners[cytosol]Kinesin-10 [cytosol]Kinesins:microtubule[cytosol]Kinesin-2 [cytosol]Kinesin-10 [cytosol]Kinesin-10 [cytosol]Kinesins [cytosol]KIF15 dimer[cytosol]Kinesin-2 [cytosol]Chromokinesin dimers[cytosol]Centralspindlin[cytosol]KIF4A homodimer[cytosol]MCAK dimer [cytosol]KIF4B homodimer[cytosol]KIF2B dimer[cytosol]Kinesin-5homotetramer[cytosol]KIF15 dimer[cytosol]CENP-E dimer[cytosol]Kinesin-1 [cytosol]Centralspindlin[cytosol]Kinesin-1 [cytosol]KIF2A dimer[cytosol]Kinesin-4 homodimers[cytosol]Chromokinesin dimers[cytosol]Kinesin-2 [cytosol]Kinesin-1 [cytosol]MCAK dimer [cytosol]Kinesin-13 dimers[cytosol]MCAK dimer [cytosol]Kinesin-5homotetramer[cytosol]Kinesin-4 homodimers[cytosol]KIF4B homodimer[cytosol]KIF3A partners[cytosol]KIF2B dimer[cytosol]KIF15 dimer[cytosol]KIF18A dimer[cytosol]KIF4A homodimer[cytosol]CENP-E dimer[cytosol]KIF2B dimer[cytosol]Kinesin-4 homodimers[cytosol]cytosolCentralspindlin[cytosol]KIF9 dimer [cytosol]KIF4A homodimer[cytosol]KIF2A dimer[cytosol]KIF2A dimer[cytosol]Kinesin-13 dimers[cytosol]KIF18A dimer[cytosol]Kinesin-14 [cytosol]Kinesins [cytosol]KIF4B homodimer[cytosol]CENP-E dimer[cytosol]KIF18A dimer[cytosol]Chromokinesin dimers[cytosol]Kinesin-5homotetramer[cytosol]KIFC1Kinesins:microtubuleKIF2A [cytosol]RACGAP1 [cytosol]KIF2B [cytosol]KIF15 [cytosol]KIF3B [cytosol]Kinesin-1KIF3A [cytosol]KIF9 [cytosol]KIFAP3KIF22 [cytosol]KIFAP3 [cytosol]KIF3A [cytosol]CentralspindlinCENPE [cytosol]KIF2B [cytosol]KIF18A dimerKIF18A [cytosol]KIF3C [cytosol]Kinesin-1 lightchainsADPCENPE [cytosol]KIF15 dimerKIF3B [cytosol]RACGAP1 [cytosol]KIF4A [cytosol]KIFAP3 [cytosol]KIF3AKIF11Kinesin-14RACGAP1 [cytosol]KIF26A [cytosol]KIFC1 [cytosol]KIF3C [cytosol]KIF15KIF26A [cytosol]KIF3A [cytosol]ATPKIF9 dimerKinesin-2microtubuleKIF2B [cytosol]KIF4A [cytosol]Kinesin-1 heavychainKinesin-3 dimersKIF2A [cytosol]KIF22 [cytosol]Kinesin-13 monomersKIFAP3 [cytosol]KIF2C [cytosol]KIF4B [cytosol]CENPE [cytosol]KIF4A [cytosol]CENP-E dimerKIF3A partnersKIF2C [cytosol]KIF15 [cytosol]KIF22 [cytosol]KIF4B [cytosol]KIF2A [cytosol]KIF18A [cytosol]KIF3B [cytosol]CENPEKinesin-13 dimersKIF11 [cytosol]KIF18A [cytosol]Kinesin-3 monomersKIF4B [cytosol]RACGAP1KIF15 [cytosol]KIF18AKinesin-5homotetramerKIF3C [cytosol]KinesinsKIF2C [cytosol]KIF11 [cytosol]Chromokinesin dimersKIF9KIF11 [cytosol]Kinesin-6Chromokinesinmonomers


Description

Kinesins are a superfamily of microtubule-based motor proteins that have diverse functions in transport of vesicles, organelles and chromosomes, and regulate microtubule dynamics. There are 14 families of kinesins, all reprsented in humans. A standardized nomenclature was published in 2004 (Lawrence et al.).Original Pathway at Reactome: http://www.reactome.org/PathwayBrowser/#DB=gk_current&FOCUS_SPECIES_ID=48887&FOCUS_PATHWAY_ID=983189

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  7. Mazumdar M, Sundareshan S, Misteli T.; ''Human chromokinesin KIF4A functions in chromosome condensation and segregation.''; PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
  8. Cai S, Weaver LN, Ems-McClung SC, Walczak CE.; ''Kinesin-14 family proteins HSET/XCTK2 control spindle length by cross-linking and sliding microtubules.''; PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
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  15. Brown CL, Maier KC, Stauber T, Ginkel LM, Wordeman L, Vernos I, Schroer TA.; ''Kinesin-2 is a motor for late endosomes and lysosomes.''; PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
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  19. Wordeman L, Mitchison TJ.; ''Identification and partial characterization of mitotic centromere-associated kinesin, a kinesin-related protein that associates with centromeres during mitosis.''; PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
  20. Kuznetsov SA, Vaisberg EA, Shanina NA, Magretova NN, Chernyak VY, Gelfand VI.; ''The quaternary structure of bovine brain kinesin.''; PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
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  25. Hammond JW, Cai D, Blasius TL, Li Z, Jiang Y, Jih GT, Meyhofer E, Verhey KJ.; ''Mammalian Kinesin-3 motors are dimeric in vivo and move by processive motility upon release of autoinhibition.''; PubMed Europe PMC Scholia
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  27. Mishima M, Kaitna S, Glotzer M.; ''Central spindle assembly and cytokinesis require a kinesin-like protein/RhoGAP complex with microtubule bundling activity.''; PubMed Europe PMC Scholia

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DataNodes

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NameTypeDatabase referenceComment
ADPMetaboliteCHEBI:16761 (ChEBI)
ATPMetaboliteCHEBI:15422 (ChEBI)
CENP-E dimerComplexREACT_26478 (Reactome)
CENPE [cytosol]ProteinQ02224 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
CENPEProteinQ02224 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
CentralspindlinComplexREACT_25726 (Reactome)
Chromokinesin monomersProteinREACT_25504 (Reactome)
Chromokinesin dimersComplexREACT_26861 (Reactome)
KIF11 [cytosol]ProteinP52732 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF11ProteinP52732 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF15 [cytosol]ProteinQ9NS87 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF15 dimerComplexREACT_26477 (Reactome)
KIF15ProteinQ9NS87 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF18A [cytosol]ProteinQ8NI77 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF18A dimerComplexREACT_26936 (Reactome)
KIF18AProteinQ8NI77 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF22 [cytosol]ProteinQ14807 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF26A [cytosol]ProteinQ9ULI4 (Uniprot-TrEMBL) KIF26A is atypical as it lacks ATPase activity.
KIF2A [cytosol]ProteinO00139 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF2B [cytosol]ProteinQ8N4N8 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF2C [cytosol]ProteinQ99661 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF3A [cytosol]ProteinQ9Y496 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF3A partnersProteinREACT_25838 (Reactome)
KIF3AProteinQ9Y496 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF3B [cytosol]ProteinO15066 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF3C [cytosol]ProteinO14782 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF4A [cytosol]ProteinO95239 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF4B [cytosol]ProteinQ2VIQ3 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF9 [cytosol]ProteinQ9HAQ2 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIF9 dimerComplexREACT_26592 (Reactome)
KIF9ProteinQ9HAQ2 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIFAP3 [cytosol]ProteinQ92845 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIFAP3ProteinQ92845 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIFC1 [cytosol]ProteinQ9BW19 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
KIFC1ProteinQ9BW19 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
Kinesin-1 heavy chainProteinREACT_26554 (Reactome)
Kinesin-1 light chainsProteinREACT_26537 (Reactome)
Kinesin-13 dimersComplexREACT_25940 (Reactome)
Kinesin-13 monomersProteinREACT_26496 (Reactome)
Kinesin-14ComplexREACT_26798 (Reactome)
Kinesin-1ComplexREACT_26141 (Reactome)
Kinesin-2ComplexREACT_26940 (Reactome)
Kinesin-3 dimersComplexREACT_26306 (Reactome)
Kinesin-3 monomersProteinREACT_26661 (Reactome)
Kinesin-5 homotetramerComplexREACT_26711 (Reactome)
Kinesin-6ProteinREACT_26851 (Reactome)
Kinesins:microtubuleComplexREACT_26291 (Reactome)
KinesinsComplexREACT_26925 (Reactome)
RACGAP1 [cytosol]ProteinQ9H0H5 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
RACGAP1ProteinQ9H0H5 (Uniprot-TrEMBL)
microtubuleREACT_10446 (Reactome)

Annotated Interactions

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SourceTargetTypeDatabase referenceComment
ADPArrowREACT_24947 (Reactome)
ATPREACT_24947 (Reactome)
CENP-E dimerArrowREACT_25390 (Reactome)
CENPEREACT_25390 (Reactome)
CentralspindlinArrowREACT_25259 (Reactome)
Chromokinesin monomersREACT_25110 (Reactome)
Chromokinesin dimersArrowREACT_25110 (Reactome)
KIF11REACT_25074 (Reactome)
KIF15 dimerArrowREACT_25172 (Reactome)
KIF15REACT_25172 (Reactome)
KIF18A dimerArrowREACT_25182 (Reactome)
KIF18AREACT_25182 (Reactome)
KIF3A partnersREACT_25360 (Reactome)
KIF3AREACT_25360 (Reactome)
KIF9 dimerArrowREACT_24934 (Reactome)
KIF9REACT_24934 (Reactome)
KIFAP3REACT_25360 (Reactome)
KIFC1REACT_25242 (Reactome)
Kinesin-1 heavy chainREACT_25083 (Reactome)
Kinesin-1 light chainsREACT_25083 (Reactome)
Kinesin-13 dimersArrowREACT_25381 (Reactome)
Kinesin-13 monomersREACT_25381 (Reactome)
Kinesin-14ArrowREACT_25242 (Reactome)
Kinesin-1ArrowREACT_25083 (Reactome)
Kinesin-2ArrowREACT_25360 (Reactome)
Kinesin-3 dimersArrowREACT_25043 (Reactome)
Kinesin-3 monomersREACT_25043 (Reactome)
Kinesin-5 homotetramerArrowREACT_25074 (Reactome)
Kinesin-6REACT_25259 (Reactome)
Kinesins:microtubuleArrowREACT_24947 (Reactome)
Kinesins:microtubuleArrowREACT_25309 (Reactome)
Kinesins:microtubuleREACT_24947 (Reactome)
KinesinsREACT_25309 (Reactome)
RACGAP1REACT_25259 (Reactome)
REACT_24934 (Reactome) KIF9 has the coiled-coil domain typical of the dimeric kinesins and is believed to function as a dimer.
REACT_24947 (Reactome) Kinesins consume ATP to power the motor which allows them to move along microtubules. The motor region contains highly conserved Switch 1 (SSRSH) and 2 (DLAGSE) motifs which change conformation during ATP hydrolysis (Rice et al. 1999). These form a salt-bridge that, in myosin, closes the nucleotide-binding cleft, enabling the motor to hydrolyze ATP (Geeves & Holmes 1999). This closed conformation has now been seen by cryo-electron microscopy in human conventional kinesin (Sindelar & Downing 2010) and in a crystal structure of the frog kinesin-5 Eg5 (Parke et al. 2010).
REACT_25043 (Reactome) Kinesin-3 drives the transport of synaptic vesicle precursors to axon terminals. Loss of the Caenorhabditis elegans protein Unc104, eqivalent to human KIF1A, results in decreased synaptic vesicles in axonal growth cones. In mice loss of KIF1A caused severe motor and sensory abnormalities associated with neuronal cell death (Yonekawa et al. 1998). Kinesin-3 is often described as monomeric, but has recently been shown to be functionally dimeric (Hammond et al. 2009).
REACT_25074 (Reactome) Kinesin-5 motors are bipolar homotetramers with two motor domains at each end, separated by a stalk/tail region (Cole et al. 1994). During mitosis, Kinesin-5 motors function near the spindle midzone to maintain pole to pole distance. Motor domains attach to microtubules from opposite poles and translocate towards the plus ends, thereby pushing the spindle poles apart (Kapitein et al. 2005). Kinesin-5 is also involved in axon growth (Myers & Baas 2007).
REACT_25083 (Reactome) Kinesin-1 is a heterotetramer of two heavy chains (HCs) and two light chains (LCs). The HC tail binds microtubules and inhibits ATPase activity by interacting with the enzymatic HC heads. LCs regulate the head and microtubule-binding activities of the HC tail by reducing the affinity of the head-tail interaction over tenfold. By a separate mechanism LCs inhibit microtubule binding.
REACT_25110 (Reactome) Chromokinesins consist of the kinesin-4 and kinesin-10 families.They act in various steps of mitosis, including chromosome condensation, metaphase alignment, chromosome segregation and cytokinesis (Mazumdar & Misteli 2005). Both families consist of homodimeric microtubule-based plus-end directed motor proteins (Sekine et al. 1994, Yajima et al. 2003).
REACT_25172 (Reactome) Kif15 (human kinesin-12) is by analogy with orthologous proteins believed to be a plus-end-directed motor. It cooperates with kinesin-5 to promote bipolar spindle assembly during cell division (Tanenbaum et al. 2009), with a mechanism that is distinct from that of kinesin-5 (Vanneste et al. 2009).
REACT_25182 (Reactome) Kinesin-8 is a plus-end-directed dimeric kinesin with an internal motor domain (Loughlin et al. 2008) that can depolymerize stable microtubuless specifically at their plus-ends (Pereira et al. 1997) in a length-dependent manner (Varga et al. 2006). Human kinesin-8 KIF18A is believed to promote chromosome congression by attenuating chromosome oscillation magnitudes (Stumpff et al. 2008).
REACT_25242 (Reactome) Kinesin-14 proteins have a C-terminal motor domain. At least four members of the group (Dm Ncd, Sc KAR3, Cg CHO2, At KCBP) have been demonstrated to be minus-end directed motors (Walker et al. 1990), in contrast to the usual plus-end directed motility of other kinesin proteins.

During spindle formation, Kinesin-14 cross-links antiparallel microtubules and slides them together (thereby generating inward forces) to balance the outward forces generated by plus-end-directed kinesins of the Kinesin-5 family. Kinesin-14 family members also gather microtubule minus-ends and focus them into spindle poles. Mutation or inhibition of Kinesin-14 family members often results in disordered or splayed meiotic spindle poles (Ambrose et al. 2005).
REACT_25259 (Reactome) Cytokinesis requires the central spindle, which forms during anaphase by the bundling of antiparallel nonkinetochore microtubules. Microtubule bundling and completion of cytokinesis require MKLP1, a kinesin-6 family member, and RACGAP1 (MgcRacGap), which contains a RhoGAP domain. These form a heterotetrameric complex known as centralspindlin. Centralspindlin, but not its individual components, strongly promotes microtubule bundling in vitro.
REACT_25309 (Reactome) All kinesins contain a motor domain or head, the position varies but it is structurally highly conserved (Kull et al. 1996, Sablin et al. 1996). The microtubule-binding site includes structural elements which interact with tubulin and undergo movement between the ADP and ATP bound states. The highly conserved switch I (SSRSH) and II (DLAGSE) motifs, which change in conformation during the ATP hydrolysis cycle, form a salt-bridge that, in myosin, closes the nucleotide-binding cleft, enabling the motor to hydrolyze ATP (Geeves & Holmes 1999). This closed conformation has now been seen in a crystal structure of the frog kinesin-5 Eg5 (Parke et al. 2010).
REACT_25360 (Reactome) Kinesin-2 is a heterotrimer with two different motor subunits and an accessory protein that is believed to interact with the cargo, or possibly regulate motor activity (Marszalek & Goldstein 2002). The motor domain interacts with microtubules and contains the ATPase used to translocate the holoenzyme along the microtubule. The coiled-coil stalk is where the two motor subunits interact with each other to form a stable heterodimer. The tail domains interact with the KAP3 non-motor accessory subunit. Kinesin-2 is a plus-end directed kinesin involved in photoreceptor cell function (Jimeno et al. 2006) and normal steady-state localization of late endosomes/lysosomes (Brown et al. 2005).
REACT_25381 (Reactome) Kinesin-13 proteins are homodimeric with the kinesin motor in the middle of the amino acid sequence. They induce microtubule depolymerization by disassembling tubulin subunits from the polymer end (Desai et al. 1999).
REACT_25390 (Reactome) Human kinesin-7, or CENP-E was one of the first kinesins to be discovered (Yen et al. 1991). It is essential for mammalian development, having a role in stabilizing kinetochore-microtubule capture (Putkey et al. 2002), CENP-E is an integral component of kinetochore corona fibers that link centromeres to spindle microtubules and localizes to kinetochores throughout all phases of mitotic chromosome movement (early premetaphase through anaphase A). Though originally reported to be minus-end-directed it is now believed to be a plus-end-directed dimeric kinesin (Espeut et al. 2008). It is sequestered in the cytoplasm until nuclear envelope breakdown and then localizes to its chromosomal cargo at the kinetochores (Brown et al. 1996).
microtubuleREACT_25309 (Reactome)
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