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PRKCZ (Protein kinase C zeta type) is a protein kinase, an enzyme that switches other proteins on by adding phosphate groups. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Leukaemia, Myeloproliferative neoplasms, Systemic mastocytosis and 1 more.
Calcium- and diacylglycerol-independent serine/threonine-protein kinase that functions in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascade, and is involved in NF-kappa-B activation, mitogenic signalling, cell proliferation, cell polarity, inflammatory response and maintenance of long-term potentiation (LTP). Upon lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment in macrophages, or following mitogenic stimuli, functions downstream of PI3K to activate MAP2K1/MEK1-MAPK1/ERK2 signalling cascade independently of RAF1 activation. Required for insulin-dependent activation of AKT3, but may function as an adapter rather than a direct activator.
Open Targets scores its association with cancer at 0.64 (direct and indirect evidence; datatypes literature 0.93, animal model 0.32, genetic association 0.37, clinical 0.92).
In plain words · PRKCZ (Protein kinase C zeta type) is a protein kinase, an enzyme that switches other proteins on by adding phosphate groups. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Leukaemia, Myeloproliferative neoplasms, Systemic mastocytosis and 1 more.
PRKCZ (Protein kinase C zeta type) is a protein kinase, an enzyme that switches other proteins on by adding phosphate groups. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Leukaemia, Myeloproliferative neoplasms, Systemic mastocytosis and 1 more.
Calcium- and diacylglycerol-independent serine/threonine-protein kinase that functions in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascade, and is involved in NF-kappa-B activation, mitogenic signalling, cell proliferation, cell polarity, inflammatory response and maintenance of long-term potentiation (LTP).
No product in this corpus aims at PRKCZ yet. Kinases are switched on by binding ATP inside the cell, so most drugs are small molecules shaped to plug that ATP pocket.
Specificity not established: no corpus medicine is aimed at it and the catalogues give it only the role drug-target; HPA finds the RNA tissue enhanced, which says where the protein sits but not whether the tumour differs from normal tissue. HPA PRKCZ: RNA tissue enhanced (brain 137 nTPM); blood lineage lineage enriched (granulocytes 16 nTPM); high antibody staining in 2 normal tissues; highest cancer staining melanoma (1 of 12 high). Distribution: 2 cancer families in the corpus carry a prevalence row, label threshold or catalogue link for it (Leukaemia, Myeloid neoplasms); Open Targets associates it with 1 specific cancer type at or above 0.5 (acute myeloid leukemia). (No rule of scripts/fetch-target-specificity.ts fired.)
Sources: Human Protein Atlas PRKCZ tissue; Open Targets ENSG00000067606 associations
First described 1993. Earliest sequence paper UniProt cites for the protein: Barbee J.L. et al, Gene, 1993, "The cDNA sequence encoding human protein kinase C-zeta". Source.
Sources: HGNC HGNC:9412 (approved symbol, name, aliases, locus and cross-references (hgnc_complete_set.txt)); UniProt Q05513 (protein name, function text, keywords and locations (REST API)); Open Targets ENSG00000067606 (association with cancer (MONDO_0004992) 0.64; per-cancer scores at or above 0.5: acute myeloid leukaemia 0.56, myeloproliferative neoplasm 0.56, systemic mastocytosis 0.54, leukaemia 0.57 (GraphQL API, CC0))
Calcium- and diacylglycerol-independent serine/threonine-protein kinase that functions in phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase cascade, and is involved in NF-kappa-B activation, mitogenic signalling, cell proliferation, cell polarity, inflammatory response and maintenance of long-term potentiation (LTP). Upon lipopolysaccharide (LPS) treatment in macrophages, or following mitogenic stimuli, functions downstream of PI3K to activate MAP2K1/MEK1-MAPK1/ERK2 signalling cascade independently of RAF1 activation. Required for insulin-dependent activation of AKT3, but may function as an adapter rather than a direct activator. Upon insulin treatment may act as a downstream effector of PI3K and contribute to the activation of translocation of the glucose transporter SLC2A4/GLUT4 and subsequent glucose transport in adipocytes. In EGF-induced cells, binds and activates MAP2K5/MEK5-MAPK7/ERK5 independently of its kinase activity and can activate JUN promoter through MEF2C. Through binding with SQSTM1/p62, functions in interleukin-1 signalling and activation of NF-kappa-B with the specific adapters RIPK1 and TRAF6. Location: Cytoplasm; Endosome; Cell junction; Membrane (UniProt). Locus 1p36.33 (HGNC).
RNA: tissue enhanced (brain 137 nTPM), detected in many normal tissues. Blood: lineage enriched (granulocytes 16 nTPM).
Medium: Adrenal gland, Appendix, Bronchus, Cerebral cortex, Colon, Duodenum, Endometrium, Epididymis.
Medium only: carcinoid, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer.
HPA PRKCZ tissue · HPA PRKCZ pathology · HPA protein class: FDA approved drug targets
Human Protein Atlas version 25.1, antibody staining at reliability approved, enhanced or supported; used under CC BY-SA 3.0. Staining counts are patients per level in the atlas cohort, not population prevalence.
Query for this target: (TITLE:"PRKCZ" OR ABSTRACT:"PRKCZ" OR TITLE:"protein kinase C zeta" OR ABSTRACT:"protein kinase C zeta" OR TITLE:"Protein kinase C zeta type" OR ABSTRACT:"Protein kinase C zeta type" OR TITLE:"PKC2" OR ABSTRACT:"PKC2") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about PRKCZ, not a curated reading list.
Shares Systemic mastocytosis, Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Systemic mastocytosis, Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Systemic mastocytosis, Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Systemic mastocytosis, Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Systemic mastocytosis, Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Systemic mastocytosis, Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Systemic mastocytosis, Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia.
Shares Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis), Leukaemia (all types), Acute myeloid leukaemia, Open Targets Platform.