KIF21B

Motor protein found in humans

KIF21B

Identifiers

Aliases

KIF21B, kinesin family member 21B

External IDs

OMIM: 608322 MGI: 109234 HomoloGene: 56868 GeneCards: KIF21B

Gene location (Human)

Chr.	Chromosome 1 (human)^[1]

Band	1q32.1	Start	200,969,390 bp^[1]
Band	1q32.1	End	201,023,714 bp^[1]

Gene location (Mouse)

Chr.	Chromosome 1 (mouse)^[2]

Band	1 E4\|1 59.61 cM	Start	136,059,127 bp^[2]
Band	1 E4\|1 59.61 cM	End	136,105,736 bp^[2]

RNA expression pattern

Bgee

Human

Mouse (ortholog)

Top expressed in

ganglionic eminence

Brodmann area 10

Brodmann area 46

blood

retinal pigment epithelium

entorhinal cortex

Region I of hippocampus proper

orbitofrontal cortex

frontal pole

superior frontal gyrus

Top expressed in

ganglionic eminence

thymus

blood

visual cortex

spleen

olfactory bulb

piriform cortex

superior frontal gyrus

medial ganglionic eminence

mesencephalon

More reference expression data

BioGPS

n/a

Gene ontology
Molecular function	microtubule binding microtubule motor activity nucleotide binding ATPase activity ATP binding
Cellular component	cytoplasm microtubule cytoskeleton kinesin complex axon dendrite growth cone cytoplasmic vesicle cell projection
Biological process	microtubule-based movement
Sources:Amigo / QuickGO

Orthologs

Species

Human

Mouse

Entrez


23046


16565

Ensembl


ENSG00000116852


ENSMUSG00000041642

UniProt


O75037


Q9QXL1

RefSeq (mRNA)


NM_001252100 NM_001252102 NM_001252103 NM_017596


NM_001039472 NM_019962 NM_177126

RefSeq (protein)


NP_001239029 NP_001239031 NP_001239032 NP_060066


NP_001034561

Location (UCSC)

Chr 1: 200.97 – 201.02 Mb

Chr 1: 136.06 – 136.11 Mb

PubMed search

^[3]

^[4]

Wikidata

View/Edit Human

View/Edit Mouse

Kinesin family member 21B (KIF21B), also known as kinesin-4, is a human protein encoded by the KIF21B gene. It is part of the kinesin family of motor proteins.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c GRCh38: Ensembl release 89: ENSG00000116852 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ ^a ^b ^c GRCm38: Ensembl release 89: ENSMUSG00000041642 – Ensembl, May 2017
^ "Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
^ "Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.

Proteins of the cytoskeleton

Human

Microfilaments
and ABPs

Myofilament

Actins	A1 A2 B C1 G1 G2
Myosins	I MYO1A MYO1B MYO1C MYO1D MYO1E MYO1F MYO1G MYO1H) II MYH1 MYH2 MYH3 MYH4 MYH6 MYH7 MYH7B MYH8 MYH9 MYH10 MYH11 MYH13 MYH14 MYH15 MYH16 III MYO3A MYO3B V MYO5A MYO5B MYO5C VI MYO6 VII MYO7A MYO7B IX MYO9A MYO9B X MYO10 XV MYO15A XVIII MYO18A MYO18B LC MYL1 MYL2 MYL3 MYL4 MYL5 MYL6 MYL6B MYL7 MYL9 MYLIP MYLK MYLK2 MYLL1
Other	Tropomodulin 1 2 3 4 Troponin T 1 2 3 C 1 2 I 1 2 3 Tropomyosin 1 2 3 4 Actinin 1 2 3 4 Arp2/3 complex actin depolymerizing factors Cofilin 1 2 Destrin Gelsolin Profilin 1 2 Titin

Other

Intermediate
filaments

Type 1/2
(Keratin,
Cytokeratin)

Epithelial keratins (soft alpha-keratins)	type I/chromosome 17 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 19 20 chromosome 12 18 none 21 type II/chromosome 12 1 2A 3 4 5 6A 6B 6C 7 8
Hair keratins (hard alpha-keratins)	type I/chromosome 17 31 32 33A 33B 34 35 36 37 38 type II/chromosome 12 81 82 83 84 85 86
Ungrouped alpha	chromosome 17 23 24 25 26 27 28 39 40 chromosome 12 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80
Not alpha	Beta-keratin

Type 3

Type 4

Type 5

Microtubules
and MAPs

Tubulins	TUBA1A TUBA1B TUBA1C TUBA3C TUBA3D TUBA3E TUBA4A TUBA8 TUBB TUBB1 TUBB2A TUBB2B TUBB2C TUBB3 TUBB4 TUBB4Q TUBB6 TUBB8 TUBG1 TUBG2 TUBGCP2 TUBGCP3 TUBGCP4 TUBGCP5 TUBGCP6 TUBD1 TUBE1
MAPs	EB1 EB2 EB3 MAP1A MAP1B MAP2 MAP4
Kinesins	KIF1A KIF1B KIF2A KIF2C KIF3B KIF3C KIF4A KIF4B KIF5A KIF5B KIF5C KIF6 KIF7 KIF9 KIF11 KIF12 KIF13A KIF13B KIF14 KIF15 KIF16B KIF17 KIF18A KIF18B KIF19 KIF20A KIF20B KIF21A KIF21B KIF22 KIF23 KIF24 KIF25 KIF26A KIF26B KIF27 KIFC1 KIFC2 KIFC3
Dyneins	axonemal: DNAH1 DNAH2 DNAH3 DNAH5 DNAH6 DNAH7 DNAH8 DNAH9 DNAH10 DNAH11 DNAH12 DNAH13 DNAH14 DNAH17 DNAI1 DNAI2 DNALI1 DNAL1 DNAL4 cytoplasmic: DYNC1H1 DYNC2H1 DYNC1I1 DYNC1I2 DYNC1LI1 DYNC1LI2 DYNC2LI1 DYNLL1 DYNLL2 DYNLRB1 DYNLRB2 DYNLT1 DYNLT3
Microtubule organising proteins	CAMSAP1 CAMSAP2 CAMSAP3 Centrin 1 Centrin 2 Centrin 3 PCM1
Microtubule severing proteins	Katanin Spastin
Other	Tau protein Dynactin DCTN1 Stathmin Tektin TEKT1 TEKT2 TEKT3 TEKT4 TEKT5 Dynamin DNM1 DNM2 DNM3