EIF2AK1

Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-alpha kinase 1
Identifiers
Symbols	EIF2AK1 ; HRI; KIAA1369
External IDs	Template:MGI HomoloGene: 8290
Gene ontology Molecular function Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Cellular component Template:GNF GO Biological process Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO Template:GNF GO
RNA expression pattern
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Species	Human	Mouse
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Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2-alpha kinase 1, also known as EIF2AK1, is a human gene.

The HRI gene is localized to 7p22 where its 3' end slightly overlaps the 3' end of the gene JTV1. The two genes are transcribed from opposite strands. Studies in rat and rabbit suggest that the HRI gene product phosphorylates the alpha subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2. Its kinase activity is induced by low levels of heme and inhibited by the presence of heme.

Further reading

• Chen JJ, London IM (1995). "Regulation of protein synthesis by heme-regulated eIF-2 alpha kinase". Trends Biochem. Sci. 20 (3): 105–8. PMID 7709427.
• Nagase T, Kikuno R, Ishikawa KI; et al. (2000). "Prediction of the coding sequences of unidentified human genes. XVI. The complete sequences of 150 new cDNA clones from brain which code for large proteins in vitro". DNA Res. 7 (1): 65–73. PMID 10718198.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hu RM, Han ZG, Song HD; et al. (2000). "Gene expression profiling in the human hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and full-length cDNA cloning". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 97 (17): 9543–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.160270997. PMID 10931946.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Shao J, Grammatikakis N, Scroggins BT; et al. (2001). "Hsp90 regulates p50(cdc37) function during the biogenesis of the activeconformation of the heme-regulated eIF2 alpha kinase". J. Biol. Chem. 276 (1): 206–14. doi:10.1074/jbc.M007583200. PMID 11036079.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hartley JL, Temple GF, Brasch MA (2001). "DNA cloning using in vitro site-specific recombination". Genome Res. 10 (11): 1788–95. PMID 11076863.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hwang SY, Kim MK, Kim JC (2001). "Cloning of hHRI, human heme-regulated eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha kinase: down-regulated in epithelial ovarian cancers". Mol. Cells. 10 (5): 584–91. PMID 11101152.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R; et al. (2001). "Toward a catalog of human genes and proteins: sequencing and analysis of 500 novel complete protein coding human cDNAs". Genome Res. 11 (3): 422–35. doi:10.1101/gr.154701. PMID 11230166.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Simpson JC, Wellenreuther R, Poustka A; et al. (2001). "Systematic subcellular localization of novel proteins identified by large-scale cDNA sequencing". EMBO Rep. 1 (3): 287–92. doi:10.1093/embo-reports/kvd058. PMID 11256614.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Anand S, Pal JK (2003). "The haem-regulated eukaryotic initiation factor 2alpha kinase: a molecular indicator of lead-toxicity anaemia in rabbits". Biotechnol. Appl. Biochem. 36 (Pt 1): 57–62. doi:10.1042/ . PMID 12149123.
• Omasa T, Chen YG, Mantalaris A; et al. (2003). "Molecular cloning and sequencing of the human heme-regulated eukaryotic initiation factor 2 alpha (eIF-2 alpha) kinase from bone marrow culture". DNA Seq. 13 (3): 133–7. PMID 12391722.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH; et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMID 12477932.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
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• Rafie-Kolpin M, Han AP, Chen JJ (2003). "Autophosphorylation of threonine 485 in the activation loop is essential for attaining eIF2alpha kinase activity of HRI". Biochemistry. 42 (21): 6536–44. doi:10.1021/bi034005v. PMID 12767237.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Hillier LW, Fulton RS, Fulton LA; et al. (2003). "The DNA sequence of human chromosome 7". Nature. 424 (6945): 157–64. doi:10.1038/nature01782. PMID 12853948.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T; et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA; et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMID 15489334.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Wiemann S, Arlt D, Huber W; et al. (2004). "From ORFeome to biology: a functional genomics pipeline". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2136–44. doi:10.1101/gr.2576704. PMID 15489336.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Mehrle A, Rosenfelder H, Schupp I; et al. (2006). "The LIFEdb database in 2006". Nucleic Acids Res. 34 (Database issue): D415–8. doi:10.1093/nar/gkj139. PMID 16381901.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Olsen JV, Blagoev B, Gnad F; et al. (2006). "Global, in vivo, and site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in signaling networks". Cell. 127 (3): 635–48. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2006.09.026. PMID 17081983.CS1 maint: Explicit use of et al. (link) CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)