Function
Tyrosine-protein kinase that acts as a cell-surface receptor for the cytokine FLT3LG and regulates differentiation, proliferation and survival of hematopoietic progenitor cells and of dendritic cells. Promotes phosphorylation of SHC1 and AKT1, and activation of the downstream effector MTOR. Promotes activation of RAS signaling and phosphorylation of downstream kinases, including MAPK1/ERK2 and/or MAPK3/ERK1.
Biological Context
Subcellular Location: Membrane (Single-pass type I membrane protein); Endoplasmic reticulum lumen
Tissue Specificity: Detected in bone marrow, in hematopoietic stem cells, in myeloid progenitor cells and in granulocyte/macrophage progenitor cells (at protein level). Detected in bone marrow, liver, thymus, spleen and lymph node, and at low levels in kidney and pancreas. Highly expressed in T-cell leukemia
Disease Association: Leukemia, acute myelogenous (AML) : A subtype of acute leukemia, a cancer of the white blood cells. AML is a malignant disease of bone marrow characterized by maturational arrest of hematopoietic precursors at an early stage of development. Clonal expansion of myeloid blasts occurs in bone marrow, blood, and other tissue. Myelogenous leukemias develop from changes in cells that normally produce neutrophils, basophils, eosinophils and monocytes. [The gene represented in this entry may be involved in disease pathogenesis. Somatic mutations that lead to constitutive activation of FLT3 are frequent in AML patients. These mutations fall into two classes, the most common being in-frame internal tandem duplications of variable length in the juxtamembrane region that disrupt the normal regulation of the kinase activity. Likewise, point mutations in the activation loop of the kinase domain can result in a constitutively activated kinase]
Product Specifications
Recombinant Human Receptor-type tyrosine-protein kinase FLT3 (FLT3), partial, Biotinylated (Active) is a recombinant protein from Homo sapiens (Human), expressed in Mammalian cell, covering amino acids 27-543aa, with C-terminal 10xHis-Avi-tagged tag, molecular weight 63.2 kDa, purity Greater than 95% as determined by SDS-PAGE.. Suitable for ELISA and Western Blot applications. Explore more Kinase proteins →
