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Cancer tissues showed weak to moderate nuclear staining. A few cases of gliomas, melanomas, squamous cell carcinomas of skin and colorectal cancers displayed strong positivity. Several lymphomas and renal cancers were negative.
GENE INFORMATION
Gene name
UCK1 (HGNC Symbol)
Synonyms
FLJ12255, URK1
Description
Uridine-cytidine kinase 1 (HGNC Symbol)
Entrez gene summary
This gene encodes a uridine-cytidine kinase that catalyzes the phosphorylation of uridine and cytidine to uridine monophosphate (UMP) and cytidine monophosphate (CMP) but not the phosphorylation of deoxyribonucleosides or purine ribonucleosides. This enzyme can also phosphorylate uridine and cytidine analogs and uses both ATP and GTP as a phosphate donor. Alternative splicing results in multiple splice variants encoding distinct isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, May 2012]