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

Gene information from NCBI Gene. Variant classifications from ClinVar.