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KPNA2 karyopherin subunit alpha 2 [ Homo sapiens (human) ]

Gene ID: 3838, updated on 9-Dec-2024

Summary

Official Symbol
KPNA2provided by HGNC
Official Full Name
karyopherin subunit alpha 2provided by HGNC
Primary source
HGNC:HGNC:6395
See related
Ensembl:ENSG00000182481 MIM:600685; AllianceGenome:HGNC:6395
Gene type
protein coding
RefSeq status
REVIEWED
Organism
Homo sapiens
Lineage
Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; Homo
Also known as
QIP2; RCH1; IPOA1; PTAC58; SRP1alpha; SRP1-alpha
Summary
The import of proteins into the nucleus is a process that involves at least 2 steps. The first is an energy-independent docking of the protein to the nuclear envelope and the second is an energy-dependent translocation through the nuclear pore complex. Imported proteins require a nuclear localization sequence (NLS) which generally consists of a short region of basic amino acids or 2 such regions spaced about 10 amino acids apart. Proteins involved in the first step of nuclear import have been identified in different systems. These include the Xenopus protein importin and its yeast homolog, SRP1 (a suppressor of certain temperature-sensitive mutations of RNA polymerase I in Saccharomyces cerevisiae), which bind to the NLS. KPNA2 protein interacts with the NLSs of DNA helicase Q1 and SV40 T antigen and may be involved in the nuclear transport of proteins. KPNA2 also may play a role in V(D)J recombination. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Feb 2016]
Expression
Broad expression in testis (RPKM 102.8), bone marrow (RPKM 35.5) and 20 other tissues See more
Orthologs
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Genomic context

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Location:
17q24.2
Exon count:
11
Annotation release Status Assembly Chr Location
RS_2024_08 current GRCh38.p14 (GCF_000001405.40) 17 NC_000017.11 (68035735..68046854)
RS_2024_08 current T2T-CHM13v2.0 (GCF_009914755.1) 17 NC_060941.1 (68911511..68922628)
RS_2024_09 previous assembly GRCh37.p13 (GCF_000001405.25) 17 NC_000017.10 (66031851..66042970)

Chromosome 17 - NC_000017.11Genomic Context describing neighboring genes Neighboring gene ATAC-STARR-seq lymphoblastoid active region 12634 Neighboring gene ATAC-STARR-seq lymphoblastoid silent region 8880 Neighboring gene ATAC-STARR-seq lymphoblastoid silent region 8881 Neighboring gene ATAC-STARR-seq lymphoblastoid silent region 8882 Neighboring gene ATAC-STARR-seq lymphoblastoid silent region 8883 Neighboring gene chromosome 17 open reading frame 58 Neighboring gene H3K27ac hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr17:66016003-66016576 Neighboring gene tRNA-Arg (anticodon CCG) 2-1 Neighboring gene NANOG-H3K27ac-H3K4me1 hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr17:66031597-66032144 Neighboring gene ATAC-STARR-seq lymphoblastoid active region 12635 Neighboring gene MPRA-validated peak2956 silencer Neighboring gene H3K27ac-H3K4me1 hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr17:66076452-66076952 Neighboring gene H3K27ac-H3K4me1 hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr17:66076953-66077453 Neighboring gene H3K4me1 hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr17:66083143-66083718 Neighboring gene ATAC-STARR-seq lymphoblastoid active region 12636 Neighboring gene uncharacterized LOC124904048 Neighboring gene H3K27ac-H3K4me1 hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr17:66097037-66097816 Neighboring gene H3K27ac-H3K4me1 hESC enhancer GRCh37_chr17:66097817-66098595 Neighboring gene F-box protein 36 pseudogene 1 Neighboring gene long intergenic non-protein coding RNA 674 Neighboring gene leucine rich repeat containing 37 member A16, pseudogene Neighboring gene SH3 domain containing GRB2 like 1, endophilin A2 pseudogene 3

Genomic regions, transcripts, and products

Expression

  • Project title: HPA RNA-seq normal tissues
  • Description: RNA-seq was performed of tissue samples from 95 human individuals representing 27 different tissues in order to determine tissue-specificity of all protein-coding genes
  • BioProject: PRJEB4337
  • Publication: PMID 24309898
  • Analysis date: Wed Apr 4 07:08:55 2018

Bibliography

GeneRIFs: Gene References Into Functions

What's a GeneRIF?

HIV-1 interactions

Protein interactions

Protein Gene Interaction Pubs
Rev rev HIV-1 Rev interacting protein, karyopherin alpha 2 (KPNA2), is identified by the in-vitro binding experiments involving cytosolic or nuclear extracts from HeLa cells. The interaction of Rev with KPNA2 is decreased by RRE PubMed
Tat tat Interaction of HIV-1 Tat with KPNA2 in T-cells is identified by a proteomic strategy based on affinity chromatography PubMed
tat HIV-1 Tat peptide (amino-acids 47-57) binds to importin alpha and beta receptors PubMed
Vpr vpr HIV-1 Vpr binds KPNA2; C-terminus changes conformation to a twisted beta-turn enabling binding to a minor KPNA2 nuclear localization. Vpr C-terminus can also bind major KPNA2 nuclear localization signal sites in an extended conformation in different ways. PubMed
vpr HIV-1 Vpr interacts with both karyopherin alpha 1 and alpha 2 to facilitate nuclear import of the HIV-1 preintegration complex, however conflicting reports indicate it may also be imported by other mechanisms independently of karyopherin alpha 1 and 2 PubMed
vpr Full-length Vpr interacts with RCH1 through its binding to the C-terminal domain (residues 404-529) of RCH1 PubMed
vpr The nuclear import of Vpr is promoted by the addition of cytoplasmic extracts from macrophages but not of that from monocytes, and the nuclear import activity is lost with immunodepletion of importin alpha from the cytoplasmic extract PubMed
vpr A small molecule hematoxylin, which suppresses Vpr-Importin alpha interaction, blocks Vpr nuclear entry in a dose-dependent manner PubMed
vpr HIV-1 Vpr interacts with importin-alpha through alphaH1 (residues 17-34) and alphaH2 (residues 46-74); the interaction via alphaH1 is indispensable for the nuclear entry of Vpr, and residues 393-462 of importin-alpha promote entry of Vpr into the nucleus PubMed
integrase gag-pol Karyopherin alpha and beta are reported to interact with HIV-1 integrase (IN) to facilitate nuclear import of IN, however a conflicting report indicates nuclear accumulation of IN does not involve karyopherin alpha, beta 1, or beta 2 mediated pathways PubMed
gag-pol Ivermectin, an inhibitor of importin alpha/beta1, inhibits HIV-1 infection by blocking the HIV-1 Integrase interaction with importin alpha/beta1 for viral protein nuclear import PubMed
gag-pol HIV-1 IN interacts with importin alpha by the BiFC assay and amino acids 161-173 in IN are required for the interaction with importin alpha PubMed
gag-pol HIV-1 Rev disrupts both IN-TNPO3 and IN-importin alpha complexes PubMed
gag-pol Some reports indicate a possible role for the interactions between karyopherin alpha and beta with HIV-1 integrase in the nuclear import of HIV-1 preintegration complexes (PIC), while other reports indicate integrase is not involved in PIC nuclear import PubMed
gag-pol Karyopherin alpha binds to a bipartite nuclear localization signal in HIV-1 integrase (amino acids 186-189 and 211-219) PubMed
matrix gag Nuclear import of HIV-1 preintegration complexes by karyopherin alpha is governed by phosphorylation of HIV-1 Matrix on tyrosine and serine, however the exact role of phosphorylation of the C-terminal tyrosine of Matrix has been debated PubMed
gag HIV-1 Matrix increases intracellular ATP content, an effect hypothesized to support the ATP-dependent nuclear import of HIV-1 preintegration complexes by karyopherin alpha PubMed
gag HIV-1 Vpr increases the affinity of karyopherin alpha to the HIV-1 Matrix nuclear localization signal, thereby mediating the nuclear import of HIV-1 preintegration complexes PubMed
gag Hsp70 stimulates the binding of HIV-1 matrix to karyopherin alpha PubMed
gag The role of HIV-1 Matrix during nuclear import of the HIV-1 preintegration complex has been controversial, however recent understanding indicates HIV-1 Matrix and Vpr proteins act in concert to facilitate nuclear import by binding to karyopherin alpha PubMed
gag HIV-1 Matrix contains two nuclear localization signals (NLS) spanning amino acids 24-33 and 110-114 that are recognized by karyopherin alpha and mediate the nuclear import of HIV-1 preintegration complexes PubMed

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Pathways from PubChem

Interactions

Products Interactant Other Gene Complex Source Pubs Description

General gene information

Markers

Gene Ontology Provided by GOA

Function Evidence Code Pubs
enables RNA binding HDA PubMed 
enables histone deacetylase binding IPI
Inferred from Physical Interaction
more info
PubMed 
enables nuclear import signal receptor activity IBA
Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
more info
 
enables nuclear import signal receptor activity IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
more info
PubMed 
enables nuclear localization sequence binding IBA
Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
more info
 
enables nuclear localization sequence binding IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
more info
PubMed 
enables protein binding IPI
Inferred from Physical Interaction
more info
PubMed 
Component Evidence Code Pubs
located_in Golgi membrane IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
 
part_of NLS-dependent protein nuclear import complex IPI
Inferred from Physical Interaction
more info
PubMed 
is_active_in cytoplasm IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
more info
PubMed 
located_in cytosol IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
more info
 
located_in cytosol NAS
Non-traceable Author Statement
more info
PubMed 
located_in cytosol TAS
Traceable Author Statement
more info
 
located_in endoplasmic reticulum membrane IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
 
located_in host cell IEA
Inferred from Electronic Annotation
more info
 
located_in membrane HDA PubMed 
is_active_in nuclear membrane IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
more info
PubMed 
located_in nucleoplasm IDA
Inferred from Direct Assay
more info
 
located_in nucleoplasm NAS
Non-traceable Author Statement
more info
PubMed 
located_in nucleoplasm TAS
Traceable Author Statement
more info
 
is_active_in nucleus IBA
Inferred from Biological aspect of Ancestor
more info
 

General protein information

Preferred Names
importin subunit alpha-1
Names
RAG cohort protein 1
importin subunit alpha-2
importin-alpha-P1
karyopherin alpha 2 (RAG cohort 1, importin alpha 1)
nuclear pore-targeting complex 58kD component
pendulin

NCBI Reference Sequences (RefSeq)

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RefSeqs maintained independently of Annotated Genomes

These reference sequences exist independently of genome builds. Explain

These reference sequences are curated independently of the genome annotation cycle, so their versions may not match the RefSeq versions in the current genome build. Identify version mismatches by comparing the version of the RefSeq in this section to the one reported in Genomic regions, transcripts, and products above.

mRNA and Protein(s)

  1. NM_001320611.3NP_001307540.1  importin subunit alpha-1

    Status: REVIEWED

    Description
    Transcript Variant: This variant (1) represents the longer transcript. Both variants 1 and 2 encode the same protein.
    Source sequence(s)
    AC134407
    Consensus CDS
    CCDS32713.1
    UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
    B9EJD6, P52292, Q53YE3, Q6NVW7, Q9BRU5
    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A8K7D9
    Related
    ENSP00000438483.2, ENST00000537025.6
    Conserved Domains (5) summary
    COG5064
    Location:10528
    SRP1; Karyopherin (importin) alpha [Intracellular trafficking and secretion]
    cd00020
    Location:113238
    ARM; Armadillo/beta-catenin-like repeats. An approximately 40 amino acid long tandemly repeated sequence motif first identified in the Drosophila segment polarity gene armadillo; these repeats were also found in the mammalian armadillo homolog beta-catenin, ...
    pfam01749
    Location:1098
    IBB; Importin beta binding domain
    pfam16186
    Location:458508
    Arm_3; Atypical Arm repeat
    sd00043
    Location:253278
    ARM; armadillo repeat [structural motif]
  2. NM_002266.4NP_002257.1  importin subunit alpha-1

    See identical proteins and their annotated locations for NP_002257.1

    Status: REVIEWED

    Description
    Transcript Variant: This variant (2) differs in the 5' UTR compared to variant 1. Both variants 1 and 2 encode the same protein.
    Source sequence(s)
    AA744568, AK024833, U28386
    Consensus CDS
    CCDS32713.1
    UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot
    B9EJD6, P52292, Q53YE3, Q6NVW7, Q9BRU5
    UniProtKB/TrEMBL
    A8K7D9
    Related
    ENSP00000332455.3, ENST00000330459.8
    Conserved Domains (5) summary
    COG5064
    Location:10528
    SRP1; Karyopherin (importin) alpha [Intracellular trafficking and secretion]
    cd00020
    Location:113238
    ARM; Armadillo/beta-catenin-like repeats. An approximately 40 amino acid long tandemly repeated sequence motif first identified in the Drosophila segment polarity gene armadillo; these repeats were also found in the mammalian armadillo homolog beta-catenin, ...
    pfam01749
    Location:1098
    IBB; Importin beta binding domain
    pfam16186
    Location:458508
    Arm_3; Atypical Arm repeat
    sd00043
    Location:253278
    ARM; armadillo repeat [structural motif]

RefSeqs of Annotated Genomes: GCF_000001405.40-RS_2024_08

The following sections contain reference sequences that belong to a specific genome build. Explain

Reference GRCh38.p14 Primary Assembly

Genomic

  1. NC_000017.11 Reference GRCh38.p14 Primary Assembly

    Range
    68035735..68046854
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Alternate T2T-CHM13v2.0

Genomic

  1. NC_060941.1 Alternate T2T-CHM13v2.0

    Range
    68911511..68922628
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