Aurka - aurora kinase A

Enables protein serine/threonine kinase activity. Involved in protein phosphorylation and response to estradiol. Located in centrosome and spindle. Human ortholog(s) of this gene implicated in colorectal cancer; ovarian cancer; and uterine cancer. Orthologous to human AURKA (aurora kinase A). [provided by Alliance of Genome Resources, Apr 2022]