TAB1

TGF-beta activated kinase 1 (MAP3K7) binding protein 1

Summary

The protein encoded by this gene was identified as a regulator of the MAP kinase kinase kinase MAP3K7/TAK1, which is known to mediate various intracellular signaling pathways, such as those induced by TGF beta, interleukin 1, and WNT-1. This protein interacts and thus activates TAK1 kinase. It has been shown that the C-terminal portion of this protein is sufficient for binding and activation of TAK1, while a portion of the N-terminus acts as a dominant-negative inhibitor of TGF beta, suggesting that this protein may function as a mediator between TGF beta receptors and TAK1. This protein can also interact with and activate the mitogen-activated protein kinase 14 (MAPK14/p38alpha), and thus represents an alternative activation pathway, in addition to the MAPKK pathways, which contributes to the biological responses of MAPK14 to various stimuli. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms have been reported. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Known Variants33 total

rsidPosition (GRCh37)AllelesClassClinVar
rs37470876422:39,795,836A/G—uncertain significance
rs575081522:39,798,449T/G——
rs75929166022:39,811,062G/A—uncertain significance
rs56132068022:39,811,616T/A—uncertain significance
rs75653164222:39,811,635G/A—uncertain significance
rs37143017522:39,811,641C/G—uncertain significance
rs20122087222:39,811,645G/A—uncertain significance
rs11813118722:39,812,791C/T—benign
rs192685550222:39,812,872A/G—uncertain significance
rs3546998622:39,813,759T/G—uncertain significance
rs77015660322:39,813,816C/T—uncertain significance
rs192690424722:39,813,822T/C—uncertain significance
rs14652476522:39,813,842G/A—uncertain significance
rs128943367422:39,815,529G/A—uncertain significance
rs96328502122:39,815,569A/G—uncertain significance
rs74545044522:39,815,583C/T—uncertain significance
rs75702689522:39,817,832C/T—likely benign
rs75981686422:39,817,834C/T—uncertain significance
rs94087483922:39,817,873A/G—uncertain significance
rs728876022:39,819,969A/Gintron variant—
rs15025888822:39,822,759G/A—uncertain significance
rs37526943222:39,822,793G/A—uncertain significance
rs20101503022:39,822,847G/A—uncertain significance
rs3604411822:39,822,851C/T—benign
rs99005050522:39,822,878C/G—uncertain significance
rs14606349822:39,822,897G/A—uncertain significance
rs131153235022:39,824,158C/T—uncertain significance
rs77158826822:39,826,093C/T—uncertain significance
rs15121302422:39,826,100G/A—uncertain significance
rs37652017222:39,826,105C/T—uncertain significance
rs74756260322:39,826,177C/T—uncertain significance
rs20220494322:39,826,210G/A—uncertain significance
rs575082322:39,829,973C/Tdownstream gene variant—

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.