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Homo sapiens Gene: RBKS
Summary
InnateDB Gene IDBG-40661.6
Last Modified 2014-10-13 [Report errors or provide feedback]
Gene Symbol RBKS
Gene Name ribokinase
Synonyms
Species Homo sapiens
Ensembl Gene ENSG00000171174
Encoded Proteins
IDBP-40665
ribokinase
IDBP-370581
ribokinase
IDBP-370584
ribokinase
IDBP-370590
ribokinase
IDBP-810273
ribokinase
Protein Structure
Useful resources Stemformatics EHFPI ImmGen
Entrez Gene
Summary The ribokinase encoded by this gene belongs to the pfkB family of carbohydrate kinases. It phosphorylates ribose to form ribose-5-phosphate in the presence of ATP and magnesium as a first step in ribose metabolism. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
Gene Information
Type Protein coding
Genomic Location Chromosome 2:27781364-27891098
Strand Reverse strand
Band p23.2
Transcripts
ENST00000302188 ENSP00000306817
ENST00000449378 ENSP00000413789
ENST00000458185 ENSP00000393558
ENST00000453412 ENSP00000415975
ENST00000612015 ENSP00000483033
Interactions
Number of Interactions This gene and/or its encoded proteins are associated with 3 experimentally validated interaction(s) in this database.
Experimentally validated
Total 3 [view]
Protein-Protein 2 [view]
Protein-DNA 1 [view]
Protein-RNA 0
DNA-DNA 0
RNA-RNA 0
DNA-RNA 0
Gene Ontology

Molecular Function
Accession GO Term
GO:0004747 ribokinase activity
GO:0005524 ATP binding
Biological Process
GO:0006014 D-ribose metabolic process
GO:0019303 D-ribose catabolic process
GO:0046835 carbohydrate phosphorylation
Cellular Component
GO:0070062 extracellular vesicular exosome
Orthologs
Species
Mus musculus
Bos taurus
Gene ID
Gene Order
ENSMUSG00000029136
View Gene Order
ENSBTAG00000031332
Not yet available
Pathways
NETPATH
REACTOME
KEGG
hsa00030
Pentose phosphate pathway pathway
INOH
INOH website
Pentose phosphate cycle pathway
PID NCI
Cross-References
SwissProt
TrEMBL E7EQ18 Q53SD1
UniProt Splice Variant
Entrez Gene 64080
UniGene Hs.11916
RefSeq NM_001287580 NM_022128
HUGO HGNC:30325
OMIM 611132
CCDS CCDS1762
HPRD 15222
IMGT
EMBL AC021171 AC110084
GenPept AAY24155
RNA Seq Atlas 64080

If you use InnateDB for your research, please cite the following publication:

Breuer et al., InnateDB: systems biology of innate immunity and beyond - recent updates and continuing curation. Nucl. Acids Res. (2013) 41 (D1) 

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