The human MAP2K (Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinase) genes, MAP2K1 and MAP2K2, are implicated in a variety of human cancers. MAP2K1 (also called MEK1) and MAP2K2 (also called MEK2) are dual-specificity protein kinases that are essential component of the MAP kinase signal transduction pathway. There is a single gene in flies, Dsor1, orthologous to both human genes. Multiple genetic reagents have been generated for Dmel\Dsor1, including amorphic and hypomorphic mutations, RNAi-targeting constructs, and alleles caused by insertional mutagenesis.
Neither human gene, MAP2K1 nor MAP2K2, has been introduced into flies.
Animals homozygous for loss-of-functions mutations of Dmel\Dsor1 typically die during embryogenesis. Phenotypes produced by overexpression of wild-type Dsor1 and of mutants analogous to disease-implicated variants have been assessed. Overexpression of wild-type produces no phenotypes detected in the assays used; for the disease-implicated variants, segmentation defects and minor defects of head structures are observed; a high percentage of animals fail to develop past the embryo state.
Variant(s) implicated in human disease tested (as analogous mutation in fly gene): F72L in the fly Dsor1 gene (corresponds to F53L in the human MAP2K1 gene and F57L in the MAP2K2 gene); E222K in the fly Dsor1 gene (corresponds to E203K in the human MAP2K1 gene and E207K in the human MAP2K2 gene). Based on the percentage of animals that fail to survive the embryonic stage, the relative severity of the disease-implicated variants has been assessed.
See also the Human Disease Model report 'RASopathies, MAP2K1,2-related' (FBhh0001509).
[updated Apr. 2023 by FlyBase; FBrf0222196]
MAP2K1 is implicated in a variety of human cancers, including malignant melanoma of skin, lung adenocarcinoma, neoplasm of the large intestine, colorectal neoplasms, adenocarcinoma of stomach, and cutaneous melanoma. [ClinVar, 376445, 375982; 2019.05.13]
MAP2K1 (Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinase 1) encodes a dual-specificity protein kinase which acts as an essential component of the MAP kinase signal transduction pathway (also called the MAPK/ERK pathway). [Gene Cards, MAP2K1; 2019.05.13]
Many to one: 2 human to 1 Drosophila. The second human gene is MAP2K2.
Many to one: 2 human genes to 1 Drosophila gene.
High-scoring ortholog of human MAP2K1 and MAP2K2 (1 Drosophila to 2 human). Dmel\Dsor1 shares 55-64% identity and 69-78% similarity with the human genes.