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... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Peptides > Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins > Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases > Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases > Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase
... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins > Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases > Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases > Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase
... > Enzymes and Coenzymes > Enzymes > Transferases > Phosphotransferases > Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) > Protein Kinases > Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases > Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases > Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase

Preferred term

Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • An enzyme that phosphorylates myosin light chains in the presence of ATP to yield myosin-light chain phosphate and ADP, and requires calcium and CALMODULIN. The 20-kDa light chain is phosphorylated more rapidly than any other acceptor, but light chains from other myosins and myosin itself can act as acceptors. The enzyme plays a central role in the regulation of smooth muscle contraction.

Broader concept

Synonym(s)

  • ATP:myosin-light-chain O-phosphotransferase
  • Myosin Kinase
  • Myosin LCK
  • Myosin Regulatory Light-Chain Kinase

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In other languages

  • Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase

    French

  • ATP:myosin-light-chain O-phosphotransferase
  • Kinase de la chaîne légère de la myosine
  • Myosine LCK
  • Myosine-kinase
  • Myosine-kinase à chaîne légère

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