MELK
maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase | KIAA0175

Enables calcium ion binding activity; non-membrane spanning protein tyrosine kinase activity; and protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Involved in apoptotic process; cell population proliferation; and protein autophosphorylation. Located in cell cortex and plasma membrane. [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Jul 2025]

Member of: DE-6 DE-6.6
Biological processes 28 terms
Expression (TPM)
MELK — as a Regulated Gene

TFs regulating MELK 0 TFs

Transcription factors with Perturb-seq knockdown data for MELK. The Binding column indicates whether any binding evidence exists for this TF–gene pair (ChIP-seq or motif footprint peaks). The Mean coef is the average Perturb-seq regression coefficient across active gRNAs (positive = MELK upregulated upon KD; negative = downregulated). The Outlier column indicates whether this gene is in the top or bottom 5% of all TF knockdown effects.

Data: Effect:
TF Mean coef Binding Outlier TF→Gene link

Elements linked to MELK

Open chromatin peaks (ATAC-seq) in the genomic neighbourhood of MELK, linked by TSS proximity or chromatin conformation (Multiome / HiCAR). Each element overlaps at least one TF ChIP-seq binding site — the TFs column shows how many distinct TFs bind that element.

Accessibility Element Dist. to TSS Link type TFs
chr9:36,400,210–36,402,094 171.9 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome HiCAR 864
chr9:36,415,916–36,416,528 156.7 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 55
chr9:36,486,561–36,488,558 85.1 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 733
chr9:36,572,530–36,573,276 47 bp At TSS Multiome 736
chr9:36,765,822–36,766,468 193.2 kb Distal (>10kb) Multiome 470

Genome Browser

Genomic view of the MELK locus showing ATAC-seq accessibility and RNA-seq expression across the ESC → DE time course, together with TF binding peaks and element-to-TSS loop connections.

chr9:36,390,210 – 36,776,468
Proximal 1 kb Distal 10 kb Multiome HiCAR ATAC-seq RNA-seq