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GK: glycerol kinase

1 protein, 16 patents, 0 drugs, 0 trials, 1,985 NIH grants and 4,798 papers.

Gene 7

Its symbol and name are HGNC's, unless HGNC and NCBI Gene contradict each other.

FieldValueSource
SymbolGKHGNC
Nameglycerol kinaseHGNC
NCBI Gene ID2710NCBI Gene
HGNC IDHGNC:4289HGNC
EnsemblENSG00000198814NCBI Gene
AliasesGK1, GKDNCBI Gene
Typeprotein-codingNCBI Gene

Proteins 1

Reviewed human proteins whose Swiss-Prot entry states the gene.

UniProt entryProteinLengthStructuresGene stated inSource
P32189Glycerol kinase5590Ensembl, GeneID, HGNCUniProt

Patents 16

Patents whose sequence listing holds the protein exactly: the same sequence, by SHA-256, length and CRC-64. A sequence a patent lists is not always one it claims.

PublicationPublishedSEQ ID NOProteinSource
JP 2026067851 A2026-04-21396P32189Espacenet
JP 2025172069 A2025-11-20647P32189Espacenet
JP 2025529142 A2025-09-041731P32189Espacenet
US 12371689 B22025-07-291731P32189Espacenet
US 12247982 B22025-03-11647P32189Espacenet
JP 2023113918 A2023-08-16647P32189Espacenet
JP 2023521663 A2023-05-25395P32189Espacenet
US 11446398 B22022-09-2035446P32189Espacenet
JP 2022524081 A2022-04-27138417P32189Espacenet
JP 2021530985 A2021-11-18503P32189Espacenet

Drugs 0

Drugs a ChEMBL mechanism record says act on the gene's protein, through Open Targets.

DrugChEMBL IDMechanismActionSource

Trials 0

Trials of those drugs. A trial joins the gene only through a drug that acts on it.

TrialDrugPhaseResults first postedSource

NIH grants 1985

NIH projects whose papers are about the gene, through NIH's grant-paper links.

ProjectTitleIts papers about the geneNewest fiscal yearSource
P20GM103424Louisiana Biomedical Research Network72,025NIH's project files
P30EY001792P30 Core Grant for Vision Research72,025NIH's project files
P30CA016672Cancer Center Support Grant62,025NIH's project files
P30CA008748Cancer Center Support Grant52,025NIH's project files
P30CA062203Cancer Center Support Grant52,025NIH's project files
P30DK019525University of Pennsylvania Diabetes Research Center52,025NIH's project files
P30DK020593Vanderbilt Diabetes Research Center52,025NIH's project files
P30DK020541NYR-Diabetes Research Center (NYR-DRC)42,025NIH's project files
R01EY024710A new molecular therapy against ocular herpes42,025NIH's project files
R01EY029426HPSE in Ocular Herpes Infection42,025NIH's project files

Papers 4798

Newest first. Swiss-Prot's references are curated; PubTator's text mining finds papers that name the gene, not always ones about it.

PMIDFound bySource
42753286PubTator, text miningPubMed
42729112PubTator, text miningPubMed
42626139PubTator, text miningPubMed
42574781PubTator, text miningPubMed
42548444PubTator, text miningPubMed
42480271PubTator, text miningPubMed
42461027PubTator, text miningPubMed
42296202PubTator, text miningPubMed
42216562PubTator, text miningPubMed
41940672PubTator, text miningPubMed

The same record as JSON

Release gene-search-2026-11-11-0.1.0

ClinicalTrials.gov's posted results, through CTTI's AACT: ClinicalTrials.gov data via Aggregate Analysis of ClinicalTrials.gov (AACT), CTTI. CTTI makes its materials freely available and requests acknowledgement. https://aact.ctti-clinicaltrials.org/documentation/299 ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

ChEMBL, through Open Targets: CC BY-SA 3.0, for the parts from ChEMBL. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

ClinicalTrials.gov: none stated ClinicalTrials.gov's data carry an international copyright outside the United States: https://clinicaltrials.gov/about-site/terms-conditions.

EMBL-EBI's patent proteins: EMBL-EBI's patent protein files from the EPO, JPO, KIPO and USPTO. EMBL-EBI: "EMBL-EBI itself places no additional restrictions on the use or redistribution of the data available via its Data Resources and Tools other than those provided by the original data owners" and "EMBL-EBI expects attribution (e.g. in publications, services or products) for the use of any of its Data Resources and Tools." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/terms-of-use

GenBank's patent files: GenBank's patent files. NCBI: "NCBI places no restrictions on the use or distribution of the GenBank data. However, some submitters may claim patent, copyright, or other intellectual property rights in all or a portion of the data they have submitted." Read on 11 Nov 2026 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/about/

HGNC: CC0: https://www.genenames.org/about/license/

NCBI Gene: None named for the file. NCBI says information created by or for the US government on its site is in the public domain, and asks that NLM be acknowledged: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/

NIH's project files and grant-paper links: Public domain (NIH RePORTER)

Open Targets: CC0 1.0. Open Targets asks that users cite its latest paper: Buniello et al. 2025, Open Targets Platform: facilitating therapeutic hypotheses building in drug discovery, Nucleic Acids Research 53(D1):D1467, PMID 39657122. Read on 8 Nov 2026 at https://platform-docs.opentargets.org/licence

PubTator 3: Public domain

UniProt: CC BY 4.0. UniProt's licence file: "All databases and documents in the UniProt FTP directory may be copied and redistributed freely, without advance permission, provided that this copyright statement is reproduced with each copy." UniProt asks that users cite its latest paper: The UniProt Consortium, UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2025, Nucleic Acids Research 53:D609-D617, https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1010. Read on 9 Nov 2026 at https://www.uniprot.org/help/license