- chk-2 [Browse genome (BioProject PRJNA13758)] [Search on AGR]
Caenorhabditis elegans Predicted to enable protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Predicted to be involved in mitotic DNA damage checkpoint signaling. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm and nucleus. Expressed in germline blastomere. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in several diseases, including Li-Fraumeni syndrome 2; breast cancer (multiple); and germ cell cancer (multiple). Is an ortholog of human CHEK2 (checkpoint kinase 2).