KLK15

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Kallikrein-15 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KLK15 gene.

Kallikreins are a subgroup of serine proteases having diverse physiological functions. Growing evidence suggests that many kallikreins are implicated in carcinogenesis and some have potential as novel cancer and other disease biomarkers. This gene is one of the fifteen kallikrein subfamily members located in a cluster on chromosome 19. In prostate cancer, this gene has increased expression, which indicates its possible use as a diagnostic or prognostic marker for prostate cancer. The gene contains multiple polyadenylation sites and alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding distinct isoforms.

Further reading

• Diamandis EP, Yousef GM, Luo LY, et al. (2001). "The new human kallikrein gene family: implications in carcinogenesis". Trends Endocrinol. Metab. 11 (2): 54–60. doi:10.1016/S1043-2760(99)00225-8. PMID 10675891.
• Diamandis EP, Yousef GM (2002). "Human tissue kallikrein gene family: a rich source of novel disease biomarkers". Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn. 1 (2): 182–90. doi:10.1586/14737159.1.2.182. PMID 11901813.
• Dihanich M, Spiess M (1994). "A novel serine proteinase-like sequence from human brain". Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1218 (2): 225–8. doi:10.1016/0167-4781(94)90018-3. PMID 8018728.
• Yousef GM, Chang A, Scorilas A, Diamandis EP (2000). "Genomic organization of the human kallikrein gene family on chromosome 19q13.3-q13.4". Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 276 (1): 125–33. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2000.3448. PMID 11006094.
• Gan L, Lee I, Smith R, et al. (2001). "Sequencing and expression analysis of the serine protease gene cluster located in chromosome 19q13 region". Gene. 257 (1): 119–30. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00382-6. PMID 11054574.
• Takayama TK, Carter CA, Deng T (2001). "Activation of prostate-specific antigen precursor (pro-PSA) by prostin, a novel human prostatic serine protease identified by degenerate PCR". Biochemistry. 40 (6): 1679–87. doi:10.1021/bi002129r. PMID 11327827.
• 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. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Yousef GM, Scorilas A, Katsaros D, et al. (2003). "Prognostic value of the human kallikrein gene 15 expression in ovarian cancer". J. Clin. Oncol. 21 (16): 3119–26. doi:10.1200/JCO.2003.09.111. PMID 12915603.
• Hillman RT, Green RE, Brenner SE (2005). "An unappreciated role for RNA surveillance". Genome Biol. 5 (2): R8. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-2-r8. PMC 395752. PMID 14759258.
• 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. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.

External links

• The MEROPS online database for peptidases and their inhibitors: S01.081