KIF3A

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Kinesin-like protein KIF3A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KIF3A gene.

Function

KIF3A is one subunit of the heterotrimeric motor protein, kinesin-2, that was initially isolated from sea urchin egg/embryo cytosol using microtubule affinity purification. This motor consists of two kinesin-related subunits (called KIF3A and KIF3B or 3C in vertebrates) and an associated protein (KAP3), and it transports protein complexes, nucleic acids and organelles towards the "plus" ends of microtubule tracks within cells. Work done in a broad range of eukaryotic cells has revealed that heterotrimeric kinesin-2 is the primary motor protein driving the intra-flagellar transport of tubulins and other axonemal building blocks from the base of the ciliary/flagellar axoneme to their site of assembly at the distal tips. This process is required for cilium assembly/maintenance and cilium-based signalling which play key roles in various cell and developmental processes. For example, in vertebrate embryos, kinesin-2 function is required for cilia-dependent nodal flow and the development of left-right asymmetry.

Interactions

KIF3A has been shown to interact with MAP3K10.

Further reading

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• Yamazaki H, Nakata T, Okada Y, Hirokawa N (1995). "KIF3A/B: a heterodimeric kinesin superfamily protein that works as a microtubule plus end-directed motor for membrane organelle transport". J. Cell Biol. 130 (6): 1387–99. doi:10.1083/jcb.130.6.1387. PMC 2120571. PMID 7559760.
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• Nagata K, Puls A, Futter C, et al. (1998). "The MAP kinase kinase kinase MLK2 co-localizes with activated JNK along microtubules and associates with kinesin superfamily motor KIF3". EMBO J. 17 (1): 149–58. doi:10.1093/emboj/17.1.149. PMC 1170366. PMID 9427749.
• Yang Z, Goldstein LS (1998). "Characterization of the KIF3C neural kinesin-like motor from mouse". Mol. Biol. Cell. 9 (2): 249–61. doi:10.1091/mbc.9.2.249. PMC 25248. PMID 9450952.
• Shimizu K, Shirataki H, Honda T, et al. (1998). "Complex formation of SMAP/KAP3, a KIF3A/B ATPase motor-associated protein, with a human chromosome-associated polypeptide". J. Biol. Chem. 273 (12): 6591–4. doi:10.1074/jbc.273.12.6591. PMID 9506951.
• Hasegawa T, Yagi A, Isobe K (2000). "Interaction between GADD34 and kinesin superfamily, KIF3A". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 267 (2): 593–6. doi:10.1006/bbrc.1999.1991. PMID 10631107.
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• Surpili MJ, Delben TM, Kobarg J (2004). "Identification of proteins that interact with the central coiled-coil region of the human protein kinase NEK1". Biochemistry. 42 (51): 15369–76. doi:10.1021/bi034575v. PMID 14690447.
• Zhang Y, Hancock WO (2005). "The two motor domains of KIF3A/B coordinate for processive motility and move at different speeds". Biophys. J. 87 (3): 1795–804. doi:10.1529/biophysj.104.039842. PMC 1304584. PMID 15345558.
• Schmutz J, Martin J, Terry A, et al. (2004). "The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 5". Nature. 431 (7006): 268–74. doi:10.1038/nature02919. PMID 15372022.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
• Brown CL, Maier KC, Stauber T, et al. (2006). "Kinesin-2 is a motor for late endosomes and lysosomes". Traffic. 6 (12): 1114–24. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0854.2005.00347.x. PMID 16262723.
• Haraguchi K, Hayashi T, Jimbo T, et al. (2006). "Role of the kinesin-2 family protein, KIF3, during mitosis". J. Biol. Chem. 281 (7): 4094–9. doi:10.1074/jbc.M507028200. PMID 16298999.
• Camargo LM, Collura V, Rain JC, et al. (2007). "Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 Interactome: evidence for the close connectivity of risk genes and a potential synaptic basis for schizophrenia". Mol. Psychiatry. 12 (1): 74–86. doi:10.1038/sj.mp.4001880. PMID 17043677.
• Pantelidou M, Zographos SE, Lederer CW, et al. (2007). "Differential expression of molecular motors in the motor cortex of sporadic ALS". Neurobiol. Dis. 26 (3): 577–89. doi:10.1016/j.nbd.2007.02.005. PMID 17418584.