KLC1

Conventional kinesin is a tetrameric molecule composed of two heavy chains and two light chains, and transports various cargos along microtubules toward their plus ends. The heavy chains provide the motor activity, while the light chains bind to various cargos. This gene encodes a member of the kinesin light chain family. It associates with kinesin heavy chain through an N-terminal domain, and six tetratricopeptide repeat (TPR) motifs are thought to be involved in binding of cargos such as vesicles, mitochondria, and the Golgi complex. Thus, kinesin light chains function as adapter molecules and not motors per se. Although previously named ""kinesin 2"", this gene is not a member of the kinesin-2 / kinesin heavy chain subfamily of kinesin motor proteins. Extensive alternative splicing produces isoforms with different C-termini that are proposed to bind to different cargos; however, the full-length nature and/or biological validity of most of these variants have not been determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]

Description

Kinesin light chain 1

Tissue specificity

Tissue enhanced (brain)

Subcell location

Nucleoplasm, Plasma membrane, Cytosol

Predicted location

Intracellular

Protein family

Mapped to neXtProt
Mapped to UniProt SWISS-PROT
Predicted intracellular proteins
Protein evidence (Ezkurdia et al 2014)
Protein evidence (Kim et al 2014)

Chromosome

14 (103561896 - 103714249)

Ensembl ID

ENSG00000126214  (ver. 103.38)

Orthologs

Mouse Klc1: ENSMUSG00000021288

UniProt

Q07866

neXtProt

NX_Q07866

Human splice variants
Mouse splice variants

Protein structure