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MAPK11 (Mitogen-activated protein kinase 11) is a protein kinase, an enzyme that switches other proteins on by adding phosphate groups. The public catalogues list it as a drug target, and an approved or late-stage drug is recorded against it. Tied to Colorectal cancer. This dossier gathers the 0 products (0 approved), 0 trials, 0 pathways and 0 resistance routes in the corpus that involve it, with external identifiers so it can be joined to UniProt, ChEMBL, Open Targets and the rest of biology.

Biology

Serine/threonine kinase which acts as an essential component of the MAP kinase signal transduction pathway. MAPK11 is one of the four p38 MAPKs which play an important role in the cascades of cellular responses evoked by extracellular stimuli such as pro-inflammatory cytokines or physical stress leading to direct activation of transcription factors. Accordingly, p38 MAPKs phosphorylate a broad range of proteins and it has been estimated that they may have approximately 200 to 300 substrates each. MAPK11 functions are mostly redundant with those of MAPK14. Some of the targets are downstream kinases which are activated through phosphorylation and further phosphorylate additional targets. RPS6KA5/MSK1 and RPS6KA4/MSK2 can directly phosphorylate and activate transcription factors such as CREB1, ATF1, the NF-kappa-B isoform RELA/NFKB3, STAT1 and STAT3, but can also phosphorylate histone H3 and the nucleosomal protein HMGN1. Location: Cytoplasm; Nucleus (UniProt). Locus 22q13.33 (HGNC).

Where it is found
  • Colorectal cancer: Open Targets association 0.58 with colorectal cancer (MONDO_0005575)
Class: kinase · Gene: MAPK11 · Facts checked 2026-09-23 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"MAPK11" OR ABSTRACT:"MAPK11" OR TITLE:"mitogen-activated protein kinase 11" OR ABSTRACT:"mitogen-activated protein kinase 11" OR TITLE:"Mitogen-activated protein kinase 11" OR ABSTRACT:"Mitogen-activated protein kinase 11" OR TITLE:"p38-2" OR ABSTRACT:"p38-2" OR TITLE:"p38Beta" OR ABSTRACT:"p38Beta" OR TITLE:"SAPK2" OR ABSTRACT:"SAPK2") AND (cancer OR tumor OR tumour OR oncology OR carcinoma OR lymphoma OR leukemia OR leukaemia OR myeloma OR sarcoma OR melanoma OR glioma). Results are unfiltered search hits about MAPK11, not a curated reading list.

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