Kallikreins in Rodents and Other Species

Kallikreins are found in both primates and nonprimates. Kallikrein genes and proteins have been identified in six different mammalian orders Primates, Rodentia, Carnivora, Proboscidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodac-tyla [4]. The number of kallikreins varies among species, and kallikreins in rodents and other animal species have been extensively described in a number of excellent reviews [2, 5-8]. In this section, we provide only a quick overview and some recent updates about kallikrein families in different species, with special emphasis on their structural and localization relationships with the 

Official and Other Gene and Protein Names for Members of the Human Kallikrein Gene Family  

Official gene name Other names/symbols Genbank accession number Unigene cluster Merops ID SwissProt ID 

KLK1 Pancreatic/renal kallikrein, hPRK M25629 M33105 Hs. 123107 SOI.160 Q07276 

KLK2 Human glandular kallikrein 1, hGK-1 M18157 Hs.181350 SOI.161 P20151 

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