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MAPK9 (Mitogen-activated protein kinase 9) 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 clinical evidence ties its variants to diagnosis, prognosis or drug response. 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.

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Serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in various processes such as cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, transformation and programmed cell death. Extracellular stimuli such as pro-inflammatory cytokines or physical stress stimulate the stress-activated protein kinase/c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SAP/JNK) signalling pathway. In this cascade, two dual specificity kinases MAP2K4/MKK4 and MAP2K7/MKK7 phosphorylate and activate MAPK9/JNK2. In turn, MAPK9/JNK2 phosphorylates a number of transcription factors, primarily components of AP-1 such as JUN and ATF2 and thus regulates AP-1 transcriptional activity. In response to oxidative or ribotoxic stresses, inhibits rRNA synthesis by phosphorylating and inactivating the RNA polymerase 1-specific transcription initiation factor RRN3. Promotes stressed cell apoptosis by phosphorylating key regulatory factors including TP53 and YAP1. Location: Cytoplasm; Nucleus (UniProt). Locus 5q35.3 (HGNC).

Class: kinase · Gene: MAPK9 · Facts checked 2026-09-23 · Target page

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Query for this target: (TITLE:"MAPK9" OR ABSTRACT:"MAPK9" OR TITLE:"mitogen-activated protein kinase 9" OR ABSTRACT:"mitogen-activated protein kinase 9" OR TITLE:"Mitogen-activated protein kinase 9" OR ABSTRACT:"Mitogen-activated protein kinase 9" OR TITLE:"JNK2" OR ABSTRACT:"JNK2" OR TITLE:"p54a" OR ABSTRACT:"p54a" OR TITLE:"PRKM9" OR ABSTRACT:"PRKM9") 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 MAPK9, not a curated reading list.

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The dossier as machine-readable JSON: identifiers from HGNC, Ensembl, UniProt and ChEMBL, products with status, trials, pathways, hotspots, open questions and assays. The full entity record is in the open API at /api/v1/entities/mapk9.json. Licence CC BY-NC 4.0.