The following gene names and symbols are associated with antigen Janus Kinase 1 across different species:

Janus kinase 1 (JAK1), Janus kinase 1 (Jak1), Janus kinase 1 (jak1), Janus kinase 1 (a protein tyrosine kinase) (JAK1), mitogen-activated protein kinase 8 (MAPK8), Tyrosine-protein kinase Jak1 (jak1)

Other aliases include:

JTK3, JAK1A, JAK1B, AA960307, MGC37919, C130039L05Rik, MAPK8, JNK, JNK1, JAK1, jak1

On the protein level the following designations are being used for antigen Janus Kinase 1:

janus kinase 1 – Janus kinase 1 (a protein tyrosine kinase) – tyrosine-protein kinase JAK1 – JAK-1 – OTTMUSP00000008566 – Janus kinase 1 – jak1 kinase – Janus protein tyrosine kinase 1 – tyrosine kinase JAK1 – mitogen-activated protein kinase 8 – protein tyrosine kinase – Tyrosine-protein kinase Jak1 – tyrosine-protein kinase JAK1-like

Janus Kinase 1 fulfills a number of functions:

ATP binding – Janus kinase activity – growth hormone receptor binding – non-membrane spanning protein tyrosine kinase activity – nucleotide binding – protein binding – transferase activity – kinase activity – protein kinase activity – protein tyrosine kinase activity – metallopeptidase activity – zinc ion binding

Janus Kinase 1 is relevant to the following processes:

cytokine-mediated signaling pathway – enzyme linked receptor protein signaling pathway – peptidyl-tyrosine phosphorylation – protein kinase cascade – response to antibiotic – intracellular protein kinase cascade – protein amino acid phosphorylation – multicellular organismal development – proteolysis

Locations for Janus Kinase 1:

cytoplasm – cytoskeleton – extrinsic to membrane – membrane – nucleus

Source: NCBI Entrez Gene, Gene Ontology