PRKCZ

protein kinase C zeta

Summary

Protein kinase C (PKC) zeta is a member of the PKC family of serine/threonine kinases which are involved in a variety of cellular processes such as proliferation, differentiation and secretion. Unlike the classical PKC isoenzymes which are calcium-dependent, PKC zeta exhibits a kinase activity which is independent of calcium and diacylglycerol but not of phosphatidylserine. Furthermore, it is insensitive to typical PKC inhibitors and cannot be activated by phorbol ester. Unlike the classical PKC isoenzymes, it has only a single zinc finger module. These structural and biochemical properties indicate that the zeta subspecies is related to, but distinct from other isoenzymes of PKC. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Known Variants21 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs352718001:1,986,954G/Abenign
rs25241330391:1,987,995A/Guncertain significance
rs26789491:2,016,343G/T
rs109100461:2,041,155C/Tintron variant
rs31283391:2,046,938G/Tintron variant
rs31071481:2,049,599T/G
rs2013916481:2,066,715C/Tuncertain significance
rs31282961:2,068,906G/C
rs4252771:2,069,172C/Tdownstream gene variant
rs37532421:2,069,681C/Tregulatory region variant
rs25037061:2,075,251A/Gcoding sequence variant
rs3710233441:2,080,329C/Guncertain significance
rs796045931:2,082,220C/Tbenign
rs617298141:2,082,303A/Glikely benign
rs8873173451:2,082,319C/Tuncertain significance
rs22802721:2,103,506C/Gbenign
rs1138129181:2,105,415C/Tlikely benign
rs31283091:2,105,878G/Aregulatory region variant
rs1453744131:2,106,688G/Auncertain significance
rs564028641:2,116,114C/Glikely benign
rs1164085661:2,116,433C/Tbenign

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.