CDK5

UniProt ID: Q00535
Organism: Homo sapiens
Review Status: COMPLETE
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Gene Description

CDK5 encodes a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase activated by CDK5R1/p35, CDK5R1/p25, and CDK5R2/p39 family regulators, with major functions in neuronal development, neurite and axon growth, cytoskeletal and dendritic-spine dynamics, synaptic vesicle cycling, synaptic plasticity, and p25-linked neurodegenerative apoptosis as a stress/disease context. Human CDK5 also regulates induced neuronal autophagy through phosphorylation of SH3GLB1/endophilin B1. Beyond the nervous system, CDK5 partners with cyclin B1 in proliferating cells and is active during mitosis, where it acts as a canonical CDK-cyclin kinase required for mitotic fidelity.

Existing Annotations Review

GO Term Evidence Action Reason
GO:0000307 cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
Reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: cytoplasm is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0004693 cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:1901987 regulation of cell cycle phase transition
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of cell cycle phase transition is a core CDK5 process. CDK5 was long classified as an atypical CDK with no direct cell-cycle role, but Zheng et al. 2024 (Nature) demonstrated that CDK5 is active during mitosis, partners with cyclin B1, and is required for mitotic fidelity - a direct, enzymatically-mediated function rather than over-propagation.
Reason: Experimentally established direct function- CDK5-cyclin B1 acts as a canonical CDK-cyclin complex that phosphorylates mitotic substrates to ensure mitotic fidelity (Zheng et al. 2024, PMID:39232161). This is a bona fide core CDK5 kinase function operating in proliferating cells via cyclin B1, complementary to (not subordinate to) its p35/p39-activated neuronal kinase role.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:39232161
CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
PMID:39232161
cyclin B1 is a mitotic co-factor of CDK5
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-deep-research-falcon.md
CDK5 can form a complex with cyclin B1 and regulate mitotic fidelity, challenging the traditional view that CDK5 has no cell cycle function
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
GO:0007409 axonogenesis
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: axonogenesis is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0048489 synaptic vesicle transport
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
ACCEPT
Summary: synaptic vesicle transport is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0051402 neuron apoptotic process
IBA
GO_REF:0000033
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: Keep neuron apoptotic process as a non-core p25-linked neurotoxicity/stress annotation rather than canonical core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: The strongest apoptosis evidence is pathological calpain cleavage of CDK5R1/p35 to p25, causing constitutive and mislocalized CDK5 activity in neurodegenerative stress models; this is not the core developmental/synaptic CDK5 function.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:10604467
p25, a truncated form of p35, accumulates in neurons in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease
PMID:10604467
p25/Cdk5 complex in cultured primary neurons induces cytoskeletal disruption, morphological degeneration and apoptosis
PMID:10604467
cleavage of p35, followed by accumulation of p25, may be involved in the pathogenesis of cytoskeletal abnormalities and neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases
GO:0004672 protein kinase activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
MODIFY
Summary: protein kinase activity is correct but too broad for CDK5.
Reason: Replace the broad kinase parent with the more informative cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity term.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0005524 ATP binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000002
ACCEPT
Summary: ATP binding is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0005634 nucleus
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
ACCEPT
Summary: nucleus is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
ACCEPT
Summary: cytoplasm is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
IEA
GO_REF:0000044
ACCEPT
Summary: plasma membrane is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0007409 axonogenesis
IEA
GO_REF:0000117
ACCEPT
Summary: axonogenesis is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0014069 postsynaptic density
IEA
GO_REF:0000044
ACCEPT
Summary: Accept postsynaptic density as a supported synaptic CDK5 localization.
Reason: UniProt gives a specific postsynaptic density localization by similarity, consistent with CDK5 synaptic substrate regulation.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Postsynaptic density
GO:0030027 lamellipodium
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
ACCEPT
Summary: Accept lamellipodium as a specific CDK5 cell-projection localization supported by UniProt.
Reason: The UniProt subcellular-location line explicitly includes lamellipodium in the cell-projection context.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Perikaryon. Cell projection, lamellipodium
GO:0030426 growth cone
IEA
GO_REF:0000044
ACCEPT
Summary: growth cone is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0043204 perikaryon
IEA
GO_REF:0000044
ACCEPT
Summary: Accept perikaryon as a specific CDK5 neuronal-cell-body localization supported by UniProt.
Reason: The UniProt subcellular-location line explicitly includes perikaryon.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Perikaryon. Cell projection, lamellipodium
GO:0045202 synapse
IEA
GO_REF:0000044
ACCEPT
Summary: synapse is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0051649 establishment of localization in cell
IEA
GO_REF:0000117
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: establishment of localization in cell is a secondary or broad CDK5 process annotation.
Reason: The term reflects a true downstream or disease/stress context, but it is broader or less central than CDK5 kinase activity and neuronal/synaptic substrate regulation.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0051726 regulation of cell cycle
IEA
GO_REF:0000117
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of cell cycle is a core CDK5 process. Historically CDK5 was thought to lack a direct cell-cycle role; Zheng et al. 2024 (Nature) showed CDK5 is active during mitosis and, with cyclin B1, is required for mitotic fidelity, establishing this as a genuine direct function.
Reason: Experimentally established by the demonstration that CDK5 forms a functional CDK-cyclin complex with cyclin B1 and ensures mitotic fidelity (Zheng et al. 2024, PMID:39232161). Treated as a core CDK5 kinase function in proliferating cells, complementary to its p35/p39-activated neuronal/synaptic signaling.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:39232161
CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
PMID:39232161
cyclin B1 is a mitotic co-factor of CDK5
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
GO:0098793 presynapse
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: Keep presynapse as non-core synaptic localization context.
Reason: The accessible UniProt text supports synapse broadly, but not presynapse specifically; the core localization should remain broader synapse/postsynaptic density/growth cone/neuron projection contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Synapse
GO:0106310 protein serine kinase activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000116
MODIFY
Summary: Protein serine kinase activity is too narrow/incomplete for CDK5.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates both serine and threonine residues, so protein serine/threonine kinase activity is the better molecular-function term.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:14521924
Apoptosis-associated tyrosine kinase is a Cdk5 activator p35...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:15689152
Mechanism of CDK5/p25 binding by CDK inhibitors.
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:15890360
Molecular basis for the specificity of p27 toward cyclin-dep...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:17078951
PKA modulates GSK-3beta- and cdk5-catalyzed phosphorylation ...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:20133653
No difference in kinetics of tau or histone phosphorylation ...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:20559324
Cables1 protects p63 from proteasomal degradation to ensure ...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:21220307
Phosphorylation of glutamyl-prolyl tRNA synthetase by cyclin...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:22078880
Adipocyte NCoR knockout decreases PPARγ phosphorylation and ...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:23455922
Interlaboratory reproducibility of large-scale human protein...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:23543736
Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) acts as a novel p...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:23602568
The protein interaction landscape of the human CMGC kinase g...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:25416956
A proteome-scale map of the human interactome network.
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:25852190
Integrative analysis of kinase networks in TRAIL-induced apo...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:26871637
Widespread Expansion of Protein Interaction Capabilities by ...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:27107012
Pooled-matrix protein interaction screens using Barcode Fusi...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:28514442
Architecture of the human interactome defines protein commun...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:30833792
A protein-interaction network of interferon-stimulated genes...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:32296183
A reference map of the human binary protein interactome.
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:32707033
Kinase Interaction Network Expands Functional and Disease Ro...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:32812023
Phosphorylated tau interactome in the human Alzheimer's dise...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:32814053
Interactome Mapping Provides a Network of Neurodegenerative ...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:33961781
Dual proteome-scale networks reveal cell-specific remodeling...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:34591612
A protein interaction landscape of breast cancer.
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:35016035
Identification and functional characterization of transcript...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:35063084
Tau interactome maps synaptic and mitochondrial processes as...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:35271311
OpenCell: Endogenous tagging for the cartography of human ce...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0002039 p53 binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: p53 binding is a specific substrate/regulator binding context, not the core molecular function.
Reason: This binding annotation is more specific than generic protein binding, but CDK5 should primarily be represented by kinase activity and substrate phosphorylation/regulation terms.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Interacts with P53/TP53 in neurons
GO:0005176 ErbB-2 class receptor binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: ErbB-2 class receptor binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0005829 cytosol
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0016533 protein kinase 5 complex
IEA
GO_REF:0000120
ACCEPT
Summary: protein kinase 5 complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
Reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0030175 filopodium
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: Keep filopodium as non-core fine cell-projection localization context.
Reason: The accessible evidence supports CDK5 at cell projections and lamellipodia/growth cones, but not a specific filopodium localization as a core CDK5 compartment.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Perikaryon. Cell projection, lamellipodium
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
ACCEPT
Summary: axon is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0030547 signaling receptor inhibitor activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: signaling receptor inhibitor activity overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0030549 acetylcholine receptor activator activity
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: acetylcholine receptor activator activity overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0043125 ErbB-3 class receptor binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: ErbB-3 class receptor binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0051879 Hsp90 protein binding
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Hsp90 protein binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0051966 regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0061001 regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:1903076 regulation of protein localization to plasma membrane
IEA
GO_REF:0000107
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of protein localization to plasma membrane is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0000307 cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex
IPI
PMID:16039528
Defining Cdk5 ligand chemical space with small molecule inhi...
ACCEPT
Summary: cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
Reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0016533 protein kinase 5 complex
IPI
PMID:15689152
Mechanism of CDK5/p25 binding by CDK inhibitors.
ACCEPT
Summary: protein kinase 5 complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
Reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0016533 protein kinase 5 complex
IPI
PMID:16039528
Defining Cdk5 ligand chemical space with small molecule inhi...
ACCEPT
Summary: protein kinase 5 complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
Reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0005654 nucleoplasm
IDA
GO_REF:0000052
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: nucleoplasm is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
IDA
GO_REF:0000052
ACCEPT
Summary: plasma membrane is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-399944
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863007
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863011
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863014
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004693 cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-180047
ACCEPT
Summary: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
IDA
PMID:24607229
Memory enhancement by targeting Cdk5 regulation of NR2B.
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0030547 signaling receptor inhibitor activity
IMP
PMID:24607229
Memory enhancement by targeting Cdk5 regulation of NR2B.
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: signaling receptor inhibitor activity overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0035255 ionotropic glutamate receptor binding
IPI
PMID:24607229
Memory enhancement by targeting Cdk5 regulation of NR2B.
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: ionotropic glutamate receptor binding is a specific substrate/regulator binding context, not the core molecular function.
Reason: This binding annotation is more specific than generic protein binding, but CDK5 should primarily be represented by kinase activity and substrate phosphorylation/regulation terms.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
GO:0005634 nucleus
EXP
PMID:12691662
Cdk5-mediated inhibition of the protective effects of transc...
ACCEPT
Summary: nucleus is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
EXP
PMID:12691662
Cdk5-mediated inhibition of the protective effects of transc...
ACCEPT
Summary: cytoplasm is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0005886 plasma membrane
EXP
PMID:17009320
cdk5 modulates beta- and delta-catenin/Pin1 interactions in ...
ACCEPT
Summary: plasma membrane is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0014069 postsynaptic density
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: Accept postsynaptic density as a supported synaptic CDK5 localization.
Reason: UniProt gives a specific postsynaptic density localization by similarity, consistent with CDK5 synaptic substrate regulation.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Postsynaptic density
GO:0045202 synapse
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: synapse is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0099533 positive regulation of presynaptic cytosolic calcium concentration
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: positive regulation of presynaptic cytosolic calcium concentration is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:1903234 negative regulation of calcium ion-dependent exocytosis of neurotransmitter
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: negative regulation of calcium ion-dependent exocytosis of neurotransmitter is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
TAS
PMID:17491008
Microtubule association of the neuronal p35 activator of Cdk...
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0030036 actin cytoskeleton organization
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: actin cytoskeleton organization is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:8090221
p35 is a neural-specific regulatory subunit of cyclin-depend...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0048156 tau protein binding
NAS
PMID:28386764
Roles of tau protein in health and disease.
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: tau protein binding is a specific substrate/regulator binding context, not the core molecular function.
Reason: This binding annotation is more specific than generic protein binding, but CDK5 should primarily be represented by kinase activity and substrate phosphorylation/regulation terms.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
microtubule-binding proteins (e.g. MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B)
GO:0050321 tau-protein kinase activity
NAS
PMID:28386764
Roles of tau protein in health and disease.
ACCEPT
Summary: tau-protein kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
microtubule-binding proteins (e.g. MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0016020 membrane
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: membrane is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0030426 growth cone
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: growth cone is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0043005 neuron projection
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: neuron projection is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
NAS
PMID:28386764
Roles of tau protein in health and disease.
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0051966 regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0005737 cytoplasm
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: cytoplasm is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0005874 microtubule
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: microtubule is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:17491008
p35 binds directly to alpha/beta-tubulin and microtubules
PMID:17491008
Microtubule polymers but not the alpha/beta-tubulin heterodimer block p35 interaction with Cdk5
GO:0008017 microtubule binding
TAS NOT
PMID:17491008
Microtubule association of the neuronal p35 activator of Cdk...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Microtubule binding is over-attributed to CDK5 itself.
Reason: The cited evidence supports microtubule binding by the p35/CDK5R1 activator and regulation of CDK5-p35 activity by microtubules, not direct CDK5 microtubule-binding as its molecular function.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:17491008
p35 binds directly to alpha/beta-tubulin and microtubules
PMID:17491008
Microtubule polymers but not the alpha/beta-tubulin heterodimer block p35 interaction with Cdk5
GO:0000226 microtubule cytoskeleton organization
TAS
PMID:17491008
Microtubule association of the neuronal p35 activator of Cdk...
ACCEPT
Summary: microtubule cytoskeleton organization is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0031175 neuron projection development
TAS
PMID:17491008
Microtubule association of the neuronal p35 activator of Cdk...
ACCEPT
Summary: neuron projection development is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0048167 regulation of synaptic plasticity
TAS
PMID:24607229
Memory enhancement by targeting Cdk5 regulation of NR2B.
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of synaptic plasticity is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:1903076 regulation of protein localization to plasma membrane
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of protein localization to plasma membrane is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:1904646 cellular response to amyloid-beta
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cellular response to amyloid-beta is a secondary or broad CDK5 process annotation.
Reason: The term reflects a true downstream or disease/stress context, but it is broader or less central than CDK5 kinase activity and neuronal/synaptic substrate regulation.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0005654 nucleoplasm
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863014
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: nucleoplasm is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005654 nucleoplasm
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863587
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: nucleoplasm is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005654 nucleoplasm
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-6805276
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: nucleoplasm is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0016241 regulation of macroautophagy
TAS
PMID:21499257
Cdk5-mediated phosphorylation of endophilin B1 is required f...
ACCEPT
Summary: Regulation of macroautophagy is a supported PN-relevant CDK5 substrate-specific process.
Reason: Human/neuron evidence shows CDK5 phosphorylates SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 and is required for induced autophagy in starved neurons and Parkinson disease models.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:21499257
unexpected role for Cdk5 in the regulation of induced autophagy in neurons
PMID:21499257
autophagy induction in starved neurons
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Phosphorylation of SH3GLB1 is required for autophagy induction in starved neurons
GO:1903421 regulation of synaptic vesicle recycling
NAS
PMID:22745285
Synaptic vesicle pools and dynamics.
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of synaptic vesicle recycling is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0045861 negative regulation of proteolysis
IMP
PMID:24548080
CDK5 protects from caspase-induced Ataxin-3 cleavage and neu...
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: negative regulation of proteolysis is a secondary or broad CDK5 process annotation.
Reason: The term reflects a true downstream or disease/stress context, but it is broader or less central than CDK5 kinase activity and neuronal/synaptic substrate regulation.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0005829 cytosol
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-399944
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005829 cytosol
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-399951
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005829 cytosol
TAS
Reactome:R-NUL-9032945
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005829 cytosol
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-180047
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005829 cytosol
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863007
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005829 cytosol
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863011
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005829 cytosol
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863013
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0005829 cytosol
TAS
Reactome:R-HSA-8863587
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
Reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
GO:0048167 regulation of synaptic plasticity
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of synaptic plasticity is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0001764 neuron migration
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: neuron migration is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0007268 chemical synaptic transmission
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: chemical synaptic transmission is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0007416 synapse assembly
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: synapse assembly is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0016079 synaptic vesicle exocytosis
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: synaptic vesicle exocytosis is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0030182 neuron differentiation
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: neuron differentiation is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0042981 regulation of apoptotic process
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of apoptotic process is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0048167 regulation of synaptic plasticity
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of synaptic plasticity is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0048488 synaptic vesicle endocytosis
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: synaptic vesicle endocytosis is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
Reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
PMID:24607229
controls the receptor's cell surface expression
PMID:24607229
serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
PMID:24607229
increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0048675 axon extension
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: axon extension is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0048709 oligodendrocyte differentiation
IDA
PMID:18042622
Cdk5 regulates differentiation of oligodendrocyte precursor ...
ACCEPT
Summary: oligodendrocyte differentiation is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0051402 neuron apoptotic process
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: Keep neuron apoptotic process as a non-core p25-linked neurotoxicity/stress annotation rather than canonical core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: The strongest apoptosis evidence is pathological calpain cleavage of CDK5R1/p35 to p25, causing constitutive and mislocalized CDK5 activity in neurodegenerative stress models; this is not the core developmental/synaptic CDK5 function.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:10604467
p25, a truncated form of p35, accumulates in neurons in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease
PMID:10604467
p25/Cdk5 complex in cultured primary neurons induces cytoskeletal disruption, morphological degeneration and apoptosis
PMID:10604467
cleavage of p35, followed by accumulation of p25, may be involved in the pathogenesis of cytoskeletal abnormalities and neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases
GO:0051726 regulation of cell cycle
TAS
PMID:21473899
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological co...
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of cell cycle is a core CDK5 process. Historically CDK5 was thought to lack a direct cell-cycle role; Zheng et al. 2024 (Nature) showed CDK5 is active during mitosis and, with cyclin B1, is required for mitotic fidelity, establishing this as a genuine direct function.
Reason: Experimentally established by the demonstration that CDK5 forms a functional CDK-cyclin complex with cyclin B1 and ensures mitotic fidelity (Zheng et al. 2024, PMID:39232161). Treated as a core CDK5 kinase function in proliferating cells, complementary to its p35/p39-activated neuronal/synaptic signaling.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:39232161
CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
PMID:39232161
cyclin B1 is a mitotic co-factor of CDK5
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
GO:0061001 regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
IDA
PMID:20357208
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 modulates the transcriptional acti...
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0045892 negative regulation of DNA-templated transcription
IMP
PMID:20357208
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 modulates the transcriptional acti...
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: negative regulation of DNA-templated transcription is a secondary or broad CDK5 process annotation.
Reason: The term reflects a true downstream or disease/stress context, but it is broader or less central than CDK5 kinase activity and neuronal/synaptic substrate regulation.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
IDA
PMID:21145489
The proapoptotic function of Noxa in human leukemia cells is...
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0005176 ErbB-2 class receptor binding
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: ErbB-2 class receptor binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0005515 protein binding
IPI
PMID:12223541
The cyclin-dependent kinase 5 activators p35 and p39 interac...
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
Reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
GO:0005634 nucleus
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: nucleus is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0016301 kinase activity
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
MODIFY
Summary: kinase activity is correct but too broad for CDK5.
Reason: Replace the broad kinase parent with the more informative cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity term.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0030182 neuron differentiation
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: neuron differentiation is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: axon is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0030425 dendrite
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: dendrite is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0030549 acetylcholine receptor activator activity
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: acetylcholine receptor activator activity overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0031175 neuron projection development
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: neuron projection development is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0031594 neuromuscular junction
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: neuromuscular junction is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0043025 neuronal cell body
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: neuronal cell body is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
Reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
PMID:21473899
normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
GO:0043125 ErbB-3 class receptor binding
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
MARK AS OVER ANNOTATED
Summary: ErbB-3 class receptor binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0043525 positive regulation of neuron apoptotic process
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
KEEP AS NON CORE
Summary: Keep positive regulation of neuron apoptotic process as a non-core p25-linked neurotoxicity/stress annotation rather than canonical core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
Reason: The strongest apoptosis evidence is pathological calpain cleavage of CDK5R1/p35 to p25, causing constitutive and mislocalized CDK5 activity in neurodegenerative stress models; this is not the core developmental/synaptic CDK5 function.
Supporting Evidence:
PMID:10604467
p25, a truncated form of p35, accumulates in neurons in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease
PMID:10604467
p25/Cdk5 complex in cultured primary neurons induces cytoskeletal disruption, morphological degeneration and apoptosis
PMID:10604467
cleavage of p35, followed by accumulation of p25, may be involved in the pathogenesis of cytoskeletal abnormalities and neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases
GO:0050321 tau-protein kinase activity
ISS
GO_REF:0000024
ACCEPT
Summary: tau-protein kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
microtubule-binding proteins (e.g. MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
GO:0004672 protein kinase activity
TAS
PMID:1639063
A family of human cdc2-related protein kinases.
MODIFY
Summary: protein kinase activity is correct but too broad for CDK5.
Reason: Replace the broad kinase parent with the more informative cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity term.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004672 protein kinase activity
TAS
PMID:7834371
Expression of CDK5 (PSSALRE kinase), a neural cdc2-related p...
MODIFY
Summary: protein kinase activity is correct but too broad for CDK5.
Reason: Replace the broad kinase parent with the more informative cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity term.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
GO:0004674 protein serine/threonine kinase activity
TAS
PMID:1639063
A family of human cdc2-related protein kinases.
ACCEPT
Summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
Reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
Supporting Evidence:
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1

Core Functions

CDK5 is a CDK5R-activated proline-directed serine/threonine kinase that phosphorylates neuronal, synaptic, cytoskeletal, stress-response, and autophagy-associated substrates.

Supporting Evidence:
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
  • PMID:21473899
    normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
  • PMID:24607229
    controls the receptor's cell surface expression
  • PMID:21499257
    unexpected role for Cdk5 in the regulation of induced autophagy in neurons
  • PMID:21499257
    autophagy induction in starved neurons
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Phosphorylation of SH3GLB1 is required for autophagy induction in starved neurons

In proliferating (non-neuronal) cells CDK5 partners with cyclin B1, rather than its neuronal p35/p39 activators, and is active during mitosis; this CDK5-cyclin B1 complex behaves as a canonical CDK-cyclin kinase that phosphorylates mitotic substrates to safeguard mitotic fidelity and genome stability.

Supporting Evidence:
  • PMID:39232161
    CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
  • PMID:39232161
    cyclin B1 is a mitotic co-factor of CDK5
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-deep-research-falcon.md
    CDK5 can form a complex with cyclin B1 and regulate mitotic fidelity, challenging the traditional view that CDK5 has no cell cycle function

CDK5 phosphorylates MAPT/tau and other microtubule-associated neuronal substrates, contributing to cytoskeletal regulation and neurodegeneration-relevant tau biology.

Supporting Evidence:
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    microtubule-binding proteins (e.g. MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B)
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
  • file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
  • PMID:21473899
    normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity

References

Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms
Manual transfer of experimentally-verified manual GO annotation data to orthologs by curator judgment of sequence similarity
Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees
Gene Ontology annotation based on UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Subcellular Location vocabulary mapping, accompanied by conservative changes to GO terms applied by UniProt
Gene Ontology annotation based on curation of immunofluorescence data
Automatic transfer of experimentally verified manual GO annotation data to orthologs using Ensembl Compara
Automatic Gene Ontology annotation based on Rhea mapping
Electronic Gene Ontology annotations created by ARBA machine learning models
Combined Automated Annotation using Multiple IEA Methods
CDK5-cyclin B1 regulates mitotic fidelity.
  • CDK5, long classified as an atypical CDK without a direct cell-cycle role, is active during mitosis and partners with cyclin B1 (not only its neuronal p35/p39 activators) to maintain mitotic fidelity, validating CDK5 cell-cycle-regulation annotations as a genuine extra-neuronal function.
    "CDK5 is active throughout mitosis"
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-deep-research-falcon.md
Falcon deep research report for CDK5
  • Falcon deep research corroborates the existing CDK5 review (p35/p39 activation, p25 hyperactivation, tau/synaptic/cytoskeletal substrates, neurodegeneration) and surfaces the 2024 Nature CDK5-cyclin B1 mitotic-fidelity finding plus additional substrate-specific roles (Drp1 mitochondrial fission, CLOCK/PER2 circadian, PRMT1-mTORC1).
    "CDK5 can form a complex with cyclin B1 and regulate mitotic fidelity, challenging the traditional view that CDK5 has no cell cycle function"
The cyclin-dependent kinase 5 activators p35 and p39 interact with the alpha-subunit of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and alpha-actinin-1 in a calcium-dependent manner.
Cdk5-mediated inhibition of the protective effects of transcription factor MEF2 in neurotoxicity-induced apoptosis.
Apoptosis-associated tyrosine kinase is a Cdk5 activator p35 binding protein.
Mechanism of CDK5/p25 binding by CDK inhibitors.
Molecular basis for the specificity of p27 toward cyclin-dependent kinases that regulate cell division.
Defining Cdk5 ligand chemical space with small molecule inhibitors of tau phosphorylation.
A family of human cdc2-related protein kinases.
cdk5 modulates beta- and delta-catenin/Pin1 interactions in neuronal cells.
PKA modulates GSK-3beta- and cdk5-catalyzed phosphorylation of tau in site- and kinase-specific manners.
Microtubule association of the neuronal p35 activator of Cdk5.
  • p35/CDK5R1, not necessarily CDK5 itself, binds microtubules and regulates CDK5-p35 activity.
Cdk5 regulates differentiation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells through the direct phosphorylation of paxillin.
No difference in kinetics of tau or histone phosphorylation by CDK5/p25 versus CDK5/p35 in vitro.
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 modulates the transcriptional activity of the mineralocorticoid receptor and regulates expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
Cables1 protects p63 from proteasomal degradation to ensure deletion of cells after genotoxic stress.
The proapoptotic function of Noxa in human leukemia cells is regulated by the kinase Cdk5 and by glucose.
Phosphorylation of glutamyl-prolyl tRNA synthetase by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 dictates transcript-selective translational control.
Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological conditions.
  • Review summarizing CDK5 as a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase linked to neuronal migration, cortical layering, synaptic plasticity, and neurodegenerative dysregulation.
Cdk5-mediated phosphorylation of endophilin B1 is required for induced autophagy in models of Parkinson's disease.
  • CDK5 phosphorylates SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 and is required for induced neuronal autophagy in starvation and Parkinson disease models.
Adipocyte NCoR knockout decreases PPARγ phosphorylation and enhances PPARγ activity and insulin sensitivity.
Synaptic vesicle pools and dynamics.
Interlaboratory reproducibility of large-scale human protein-complex analysis by standardized AP-MS.
Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) acts as a novel potentiator of cyclin-dependent kinases to enhance cell proliferation independently of its hydrolase activity.
The protein interaction landscape of the human CMGC kinase group.
CDK5 protects from caspase-induced Ataxin-3 cleavage and neurodegeneration.
Memory enhancement by targeting Cdk5 regulation of NR2B.
  • CDK5 phosphorylates NR2B/GluN2B Ser1116, regulating NMDAR surface expression, synaptic transmission, and memory.
A proteome-scale map of the human interactome network.
Integrative analysis of kinase networks in TRAIL-induced apoptosis provides a source of potential targets for combination therapy.
Widespread Expansion of Protein Interaction Capabilities by Alternative Splicing.
Pooled-matrix protein interaction screens using Barcode Fusion Genetics.
Roles of tau protein in health and disease.
Architecture of the human interactome defines protein communities and disease networks.
A protein-interaction network of interferon-stimulated genes extends the innate immune system landscape.
A reference map of the human binary protein interactome.
Kinase Interaction Network Expands Functional and Disease Roles of Human Kinases.
Phosphorylated tau interactome in the human Alzheimer's disease brain.
Interactome Mapping Provides a Network of Neurodegenerative Disease Proteins and Uncovers Widespread Protein Aggregation in Affected Brains.
Dual proteome-scale networks reveal cell-specific remodeling of the human interactome.
A protein interaction landscape of breast cancer.
Identification and functional characterization of transcriptional activators in human cells.
Tau interactome maps synaptic and mitochondrial processes associated with neurodegeneration.
OpenCell: Endogenous tagging for the cartography of human cellular organization.
Expression of CDK5 (PSSALRE kinase), a neural cdc2-related protein kinase, in the mature and developing mouse central and peripheral nervous systems.
p35 is a neural-specific regulatory subunit of cyclin-dependent kinase 5.
Reactome:R-HSA-180047
CDK5 phosphorylates DARPP-32 on Thr75
Reactome:R-HSA-399944
Phosphorylation of CRMPs by Cdk5
Reactome:R-HSA-399951
Phosphorylation of CRMPs by GSK3beta
Reactome:R-HSA-6805276
CDK5 phosphorylates TP53
Reactome:R-HSA-8863007
p25-bound CDK5 phosphorylates CDC25B
Reactome:R-HSA-8863011
p25-bound CDK5 phosphorylates CDC25C
Reactome:R-HSA-8863013
CDK5 binds p25
Reactome:R-HSA-8863014
p25-bound CDK5 phosphorylates CDC25A
Reactome:R-HSA-8863587
CDK5:p25 translocates to the nucleus
Reactome:R-NUL-9032945
Ntrk2 phosohorylates CDK5
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
UniProtKB record for human CDK5
  • UniProt summarizes CDK5 as a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase activated by CDK5R1/CDK5R2, with neuronal, synaptic, cytoskeletal, apoptosis, and substrate-specific autophagy functions.
file:human/CDK5/CDK5-notes.md
CDK5 review notes
  • Manual PN-focused CDK5 notes; Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus autophagy evidence was treated as context only, while human SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 evidence supported regulation of macroautophagy.

Suggested Questions for Experts

Q: Should human CDK5 be curated directly to basal autophagy/autophagosome maturation based on conserved Acinus regulation, or only to SH3GLB1-dependent regulation of induced macroautophagy?

Suggested experts: GO autophagy editors, CDK5 neuronal signaling experts, Drosophila autophagy experts

Q: Which CDK5 substrate-binding annotations should be retained as specific MF annotations versus represented as phosphorylation/regulatory process annotations?

Suggested experts: GO molecular-function editors, neurobiology curators

Suggested Experiments

Experiment: Test whether human CDK5 phosphorylates ACIN1 at sites corresponding to Drosophila Acinus S437 and whether this affects basal autophagy flux or autophagosome maturation in neuronal cells.

Hypothesis: The Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus basal-autophagy module is conserved only if human CDK5 directly phosphorylates ACIN1 and changes basal autophagic flux.

Type: kinase assay/autophagy flux assay

Experiment: Dissect CDK5-dependent SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 phosphorylation from other CDK5 neuronal substrates using phosphosite-specific rescue mutants in starved neurons.

Hypothesis: CDK5 regulation of macroautophagy is mediated through SH3GLB1 phosphorylation rather than a general CDK5 role in all autophagy steps.

Type: phosphosite rescue/autophagy imaging

Experiment: Using the analog-sensitive CDK5 chemical-genetic system from Zheng et al. 2024, map the mitotic CDK5-cyclin B1 phosphoproteome in non-neuronal proliferating cells and compare it to the CDK1-cyclin B1 substrate set, to determine whether CDK5 cell-cycle annotations should be refined to specific mitotic substrates/processes.

Hypothesis: CDK5-cyclin B1 phosphorylates a distinct subset of mitotic substrates that ensures chromosome segregation fidelity, separable from CDK1-cyclin B1 activity.

Type: analog-sensitive kinase phosphoproteomics

Deep Research

Falcon

(CDK5-deep-research-falcon.md)
Comprehensive Research Report: CDK5 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 5) - Human Gene Q00535 Falcon Edison Scientific Literature 19 citations 2 artifacts 2026-06-21T07:05:45.173903

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Comprehensive Research Report: CDK5 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 5) - Human Gene Q00535

Gene Identity and Basic Characterization

CDK5 (Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 5, UniProt Q00535) is a proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase in humans belonging to the CMGC Ser/Thr protein kinase superfamily (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 1-2, pao2021threedecadesof pages 1-3). Unlike other cyclin-dependent kinases, CDK5 is an atypical family member that does not directly participate in cell cycle regulation and instead plays critical roles in post-mitotic neurons (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 1-2, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2). The protein exhibits approximately 60% sequence homology with CDC2/CDK1 but possesses distinct regulatory mechanisms and biological functions (pao2021threedecadesof pages 1-3).

Primary Enzymatic Function and Substrate Specificity

CDK5 functions as a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase that catalyzes the phosphorylation of substrates at SP/TP motifs, with a preference for basic residues flanking the phosphorylation site (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2). The enzyme requires activation by non-cyclin regulatory proteins, specifically p35 (CDK5R1) or p39 (CDK5R2), rather than the canonical cyclins used by other CDK family members (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 1-2, pao2021threedecadesof pages 1-3, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2).

CDK5 is an atypical cyclin-dependent kinase: unlike classical CDKs, it is not activated by canonical cyclins and instead requires the non-cyclin regulatory subunits p35 or p39 for kinase activation. These activators are structurally distinct from cyclins and are especially important in post-mitotic neurons (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 1-2, pao2021threedecadesof pages 1-3, gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3)

Under physiological conditions, p35 and p39 are myristoylated at Gly2, which targets them to membrane fractions and recruits active CDK5 complexes to the cell membrane. Active CDK5/p35 can also be present in the cytoplasm, but membrane association is a key feature of normal spatial regulation (pao2021threedecadesof pages 1-3, pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3)

Under pathological calcium-dependent conditions, calpain cleaves p35 to p25 and p39 to p29. These truncated activators lose the N-terminal myristoylated/membrane-targeting region and degradation signal, giving them longer half-lives and allowing CDK5 complexes to relocalize from the membrane to the cytoplasm and nucleus (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 1-2, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2, gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3)

The resulting CDK5/p25 or CDK5/p29 complexes are hyperactive and mislocalized, which broadens substrate access and promotes aberrant phosphorylation of physiological and non-physiological targets. This mechanism is linked to neurotoxicity, tau hyperphosphorylation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and other pathological signaling outputs (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)

CDK5 activity is also tuned by post-translational modifications. Phosphorylation at Thr14 is inhibitory, phosphorylation at Tyr15 is generally stimulatory but context-dependent, and phosphorylation at Ser159 promotes p35-dependent activation. S-nitrosylation at Cys83 within the ATP-binding pocket suppresses kinase activity, whereas acetylation at Lys33 impairs ATP binding and reduces catalytic activity (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3)

Blockquote: This blockquote summarizes the core regulatory logic of CDK5, including its non-cyclin activators, normal membrane targeting, pathological p25/p29 generation, and key post-translational modifications. It is useful for quickly explaining how CDK5 shifts from physiological neuronal signaling to disease-associated hyperactivation.

Activation Mechanism and Regulation

The activation and spatial regulation of CDK5 is tightly controlled through several mechanisms. Under physiological conditions, p35 and p39 undergo N-terminal myristoylation at Gly2, which targets these regulatory subunits to membrane fractions and recruits CDK5 to the cell membrane (pao2021threedecadesof pages 1-3, pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4). Active CDK5/p35 complexes can also be present in the cytoplasm, with localization modulated by CDK5-mediated phosphorylation of p35 at Ser8, which releases p35 from the membrane and promotes cytoplasmic localization (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2).

Under pathological conditions involving elevated intracellular calcium, the protease calpain cleaves p35 to generate p25 and p39 to generate p29 (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2). These truncated activators lack the N-terminal myristoylation signal and ubiquitination sequence, resulting in significantly longer protein half-lives and loss of membrane targeting (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2). The resulting CDK5/p25 or CDK5/p29 complexes become hyperactive and mislocalize to the cytoplasm and nucleus, where they phosphorylate aberrant substrates and contribute to neurotoxicity (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5).

CDK5 activity is further modulated by post-translational modifications. Phosphorylation at Thr14 inhibits kinase activity, while phosphorylation at Tyr15 is generally stimulatory but context-dependent (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4). Phosphorylation at Ser159 in the T-loop is critical for p35 binding and activation (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4). S-nitrosylation at Cys83 within the ATP-binding pocket suppresses CDK5 activity, and acetylation at Lys33 impairs ATP binding, thereby reducing catalytic activity (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3).

Substrate Repertoire

CDK5 phosphorylates an extensive array of substrates involved in diverse cellular processes. The following table summarizes major substrates with their specific phosphorylation sites and functional consequences:

Functional category CDK5 substrate Phosphorylation site(s) Functional outcome Citation
Synaptic function Munc18 S158 Promotes dissociation from Syntaxin 1A, facilitating synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function PSD-95 T19, S25, S35 Regulates synaptic plasticity; phosphorylation reduces clustering with ion channels and promotes degradation (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function NR2A S1232 Enhances NMDA receptor function and contributes to synaptic plasticity (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function Dynamin I S774, S778 Increases clathrin-mediated endocytosis (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function Amphiphysin I S272, S276, S285 Increases clathrin-mediated endocytosis (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function TrkB S478 Regulates activity-dependent structural plasticity and spatial memory (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function SPAR S1328 Primes SPAR for degradation, promoting synaptic weakening/homeostatic scaling (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function Liprinα1 T701 Enhances excitatory synaptic function by regulating PSD-95-associated localization (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function CaV2.2 S2013 Regulates Ca2+ influx at presynaptic terminals (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Synaptic function L-VDCC S783 Regulates Ca2+ influx and neurotransmitter release probability (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton Dcx S710 Regulates neuronal migration (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton NUDEL S198, T219, S231 Regulates neurite morphology and neurite outgrowth; involved in neuronal migration (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton FAK S732 Regulates microtubule organization and neuronal migration; in cancer promotes actin remodeling/EMT (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 3-6)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton RapGEF2 S1124 Activates Rap1 to modulate neuronal migration (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton Talin S425 Prevents Smurf1-mediated degradation of talin head domain, stabilizing lamellipodia and promoting migration (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 3-6)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton Synapsin III S404 Required for semaphorin-3A-elicited neuronal migration (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton PAK1 T212 Regulates neuronal migration and neurite outgrowth (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton Map1b Not specified in cited context Promotes neurite outgrowth and axonal development (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton Axin T485 Promotes axon formation; links CDK5 to Wnt pathway scaffolding (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Neuronal migration / cytoskeleton p27 S10, S297 Regulates nuclear elongation in migrating neurons (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4)
Mitochondrial / oxidative stress Drp1 S616 Promotes mitochondrial fission; linked to neurodegeneration and cancer cell survival/death programs (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5, nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 3-6)
Mitochondrial / oxidative stress Parkin S131 Reduces Parkin E3 ubiquitin ligase activity, impairing mitochondrial quality control (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Mitochondrial / oxidative stress Prx1 T90 Reduces peroxidase activity, increasing oxidative stress (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Mitochondrial / oxidative stress Prx2 T89 Reduces peroxidase activity, increasing ROS and dopaminergic neuron loss (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Tau pathology Tau T181, S202, T205, T217, S235, S396, S404 Reduces microtubule binding; contributes to tau hyperphosphorylation, synaptic damage, and neurodegeneration (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5, fu2025cdk5mediatedhyperphosphorylationof pages 1-2)
mTOR pathway PRMT1 S307 Promotes PRMT1 translocation from nucleus to cytoplasm/lysosome, enabling WDR24 methylation and mTORC1 activation (yin2023cdk5prmt1wdr24signalingcascade pages 1-3)
Circadian clock CLOCK T451, T461 Promotes CLOCK nuclear translocation and enhances circadian transcriptional activity (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Circadian clock PER2 S394 Stabilizes PER2 and promotes nuclear translocation (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Other / neurodegeneration APP T668 Regulates APP localization (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Other / DNA damage response ATM S794 Regulates DNA damage response signaling (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5)
Other / disease signaling SIRT2 S331, S335 Promotes nuclear translocation of SIRT2 and dopaminergic neuronal death in Parkinson’s disease models (yan2022cdk5phosphorylationinducedsirt2 pages 1-2)
Other / cancer signaling PPARγ S273 Releases/stabilizes ESRP1, promoting CD44 isoform switching, stemness, and metastasis in breast cancer (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 3-6)
Other / cancer signaling ADD1 T724 Reduces F-actin binding, promoting actin remodeling, migration, and invasion (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 3-6)

Table: This table summarizes major CDK5 substrates across synaptic, cytoskeletal, mitochondrial, circadian, mTOR, and disease-related pathways, with phosphorylation sites and functional consequences. It is useful for quickly mapping CDK5’s direct molecular outputs to specific cellular processes.

Recent studies have identified novel CDK5 substrates. In 2024, a study demonstrated that CDK5 can form a complex with cyclin B1 and regulate mitotic fidelity, expanding beyond its traditional non-cell-cycle roles (zheng2024cdk5cyclinb1regulates pages 1-4). In 2023, CDK5 was shown to phosphorylate PRMT1 at Ser307 in response to amino acids, promoting PRMT1 translocation from nucleus to cytoplasm and lysosome, which in turn methylates WDR24 to activate the mTORC1 pathway (yin2023cdk5prmt1wdr24signalingcascade pages 1-3). Additionally, CDK5-mediated hyperphosphorylation of Tau at Thr217 was demonstrated in 2025 to impair neuronal synaptic structure and exacerbate cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease models (fu2025cdk5mediatedhyperphosphorylationof pages 1-2).

Subcellular Localization

CDK5 exhibits dynamic subcellular localization that is critical for determining its functional outcomes. Under normal physiological conditions, active CDK5/p35 and CDK5/p39 complexes are primarily localized to cell membranes due to myristoylation of p35/p39, with additional cytoplasmic pools regulated by phosphorylation-dependent release mechanisms (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, pao2021threedecadesof pages 1-3, pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3).

During pathological conditions, calpain-mediated cleavage of p35/p39 to p25/p29 removes the myristoylation signal, allowing CDK5 complexes to translocate to the nucleus (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2, gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3). Nuclear localization of CDK5/p25 is strongly associated with neurotoxicity in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease (allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). However, nuclear CDK5 can also function as a tumor suppressor in gastric cancer, where it exhibits unique nuclear localization and accesses substrates that promote anti-oncogenic signaling (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, nishimura2025thedualityof pages 1-2).

CDK5 also regulates the subcellular localization of its substrates. For example, CDK5 phosphorylates SIRT2 at Ser331 and Ser335, promoting its translocation from cytoplasm to nucleus and subsequent dopaminergic neuronal death in Parkinson's disease models (yan2022cdk5phosphorylationinducedsirt2 pages 1-2). Similarly, CDK5 phosphorylates HSP90AA1 at Ser595 under basal conditions, inhibiting HSP90AA1 and disrupting TFEB nuclear localization and autophagy induction (gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3).

Signaling and Biochemical Pathways

CDK5 functions as a central hub kinase that integrates multiple signaling networks in neurons and other cell types. The following sections detail the major pathways in which CDK5 participates.

Synaptic Function and Plasticity

CDK5 plays essential roles in synaptic transmission and plasticity. At presynaptic terminals, CDK5 phosphorylates Munc18 at Ser158, promoting dissociation from Syntaxin 1A and facilitating synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). CDK5 regulates endocytosis through phosphorylation of Dynamin I (Ser774, Ser778) and Amphiphysin I (Ser272, Ser276, Ser285), thereby controlling synaptic vesicle recycling (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). Additionally, CDK5 modulates Ca²⁺ influx by phosphorylating voltage-dependent calcium channels including L-VDCC (Ser783) and CaV2.2 (Ser2013), which increases neurotransmitter release probability (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5).

At postsynaptic sites, CDK5 phosphorylates the NMDA receptor subunit NR2A at Ser1232, enhancing NMDA receptor function and contributing to synaptic plasticity (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). CDK5-mediated phosphorylation of PSD-95 at Thr19, Ser25, and Ser35 regulates synaptic plasticity by reducing co-clustering with ion channels and promoting scaffold protein degradation (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). For synaptic homeostasis, CDK5 phosphorylates SPAR at Ser1328, priming it for Plk2-mediated phosphorylation and ubiquitin-dependent degradation, thereby promoting synaptic weakening (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5).

Neuronal Migration and Cytoskeletal Regulation

During brain development, CDK5 orchestrates neuronal migration through phosphorylation of multiple cytoskeletal regulators. CDK5 phosphorylates doublecortin (Dcx) at Ser710, NUDEL at Ser198/Thr219/Ser231, and FAK at Ser732, all of which regulate microtubule organization and neuronal migration (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). Recent work demonstrated that CDK5 phosphorylates RapGEF2 at Ser1124, subsequently activating Rap1, a key factor modulating neuronal migration (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4). CDK5 also phosphorylates PAK1 at Thr212 and Map1b to regulate neurite outgrowth and axonal formation (pao2021threedecadesof pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5).

mTORC1 Signaling Pathway

A recent discovery revealed a novel CDK5-PRMT1-WDR24 signaling cascade that promotes mTORC1 activation. In response to amino acids, CDK5 phosphorylates protein arginine methyltransferase 1 (PRMT1) at Ser307, promoting PRMT1 translocation from nucleus to cytoplasm and lysosomes (yin2023cdk5prmt1wdr24signalingcascade pages 1-3). This relocalized PRMT1 then methylates WDR24, an essential component of the GATOR2 complex, which in turn activates the mTORC1 pathway to regulate cell growth, metabolism, and tumor progression (yin2023cdk5prmt1wdr24signalingcascade pages 1-3).

Mitochondrial Dynamics and Function

CDK5 regulates mitochondrial dynamics by phosphorylating dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) at Ser616, which promotes GTPase activity and accelerates mitochondrial fission (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). This mechanism is implicated in dopaminergic neuronal loss in Parkinson's disease models and in regulating cancer cell survival programs (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 3-6, tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4). CDK5 also phosphorylates Parkin at Ser131, reducing its E3 ubiquitin ligase activity and impairing mitochondrial quality control (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). Additionally, CDK5 phosphorylates peroxidases Prx1 (Thr90) and Prx2 (Thr89), decreasing their peroxidase activity and increasing reactive oxygen species production (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5).

Tau Phosphorylation and Neurodegeneration

CDK5 is a major tau kinase that phosphorylates tau at multiple sites including Thr181, Ser202, Thr205, Thr217, Ser235, Ser396, and Ser404 (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5, fu2025cdk5mediatedhyperphosphorylationof pages 1-2). Hyperphosphorylation of tau reduces its microtubule-binding capacity and promotes tau aggregation, contributing to neurofibrillary tangle formation in Alzheimer's disease (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). A 2025 study specifically demonstrated that CDK5-mediated hyperphosphorylation of Tau at Thr217 impairs neuronal synaptic structure, reduces levels of synaptic proteins Drebrin and PSD95, and exacerbates cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease models (fu2025cdk5mediatedhyperphosphorylationof pages 1-2).

Circadian Clock Regulation

CDK5 regulates circadian rhythms by phosphorylating core clock proteins. CDK5 phosphorylates CLOCK at Thr451 and Thr461, promoting CLOCK nuclear translocation and enhancing its circadian transcriptional activity (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5). Additionally, CDK5 phosphorylates PER2 at Ser394, stabilizing PER2 and promoting its nuclear translocation to regulate circadian gene expression (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5).

Additional Signaling Pathways

CDK5 participates in DNA damage response by phosphorylating ATM at Ser794 (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5), regulates APP processing by phosphorylating APP at Thr668 (pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5), and modulates autophagy through multiple mechanisms including EndoB1 phosphorylation (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4). CDK5 also interfaces with MAPK and PI3K/Akt signaling pathways in various pathological contexts (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, requejoaguilar2023cdk5andaberrant pages 1-2).

Recent Developments and Latest Research (2023-2025)

Recent research has expanded our understanding of CDK5 in both physiological and pathological contexts:

  1. Novel Mitotic Function (2024): A groundbreaking study published in Nature demonstrated that CDK5 can form a complex with cyclin B1 and regulate mitotic fidelity, challenging the traditional view that CDK5 has no cell cycle function (zheng2024cdk5cyclinb1regulates pages 1-4).

  2. mTORC1 Regulation (2023): The discovery of the CDK5-PRMT1-WDR24 signaling cascade revealed a new mechanism by which CDK5 senses amino acids and activates mTORC1, with implications for cancer therapy (yin2023cdk5prmt1wdr24signalingcascade pages 1-3).

  3. Tau Thr217 Phosphorylation (2025): Detailed mechanistic studies confirmed CDK5 as the kinase responsible for tau phosphorylation at Thr217, a site now recognized as a critical biomarker for Alzheimer's disease, and demonstrated that this phosphorylation directly impairs synaptic structure (fu2025cdk5mediatedhyperphosphorylationof pages 1-2).

  4. Context-Dependent Oncogenic/Tumor Suppressor Roles (2023): A comprehensive review established that CDK5's role as oncogene or tumor suppressor depends primarily on its subcellular localization, with nuclear CDK5 acting as a tumor suppressor in gastric cancer but cytoplasmic CDK5 promoting oncogenesis in most other cancers (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2).

  5. Synaptic Remodeling in Stroke (2026): A salidroside derivative (SHPL-49) was shown to enhance synaptic remodeling in stroke models by modulating the CDK5/p35/p25 pathway, representing a potential therapeutic approach for ischemic stroke (zheng2024cdk5cyclinb1regulates pages 1-4).

Current Applications and Clinical Relevance

CDK5 has emerged as a promising therapeutic target for multiple diseases. In Alzheimer's disease, specific CDK5/p25 inhibitors such as the peptide TFP5 have shown neuroprotective effects by preventing aberrant tau phosphorylation and neuronal death in preclinical models (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2). A 2023 study demonstrated that a Cdk5-derived peptide inhibitor can specifically disrupt Cdk5/p25 interaction and ameliorate neurodegenerative phenotypes in cell and mouse models (allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2).

In cancer, the context-dependent role of CDK5 presents both challenges and opportunities. While CDK5 inhibition may be beneficial for most cancers where CDK5 acts as an oncogene, the unique tumor-suppressive role of nuclear CDK5 in gastric cancer suggests that targeting CDK5 substrates individually or in combination with CDK5 modulation could create valuable clinical opportunities (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2).

CDK5 inhibition has also shown promise in Parkinson's disease models, where preventing Cdk5-mediated SIRT2 nuclear translocation or Drp1-dependent mitochondrial fission protected dopaminergic neurons (tian2022focusingoncyclindependent pages 3-4, yan2022cdk5phosphorylationinducedsirt2 pages 1-2).

Expert Analysis and Future Perspectives

CDK5 functions as a molecular rheostat where different activity levels and subcellular localizations elicit distinct functional outcomes (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2). The discovery that hyperactivation through p25 formation results in apoptosis suggests a counterintuitive therapeutic strategy of "dialing up" CDK5 activity rather than inhibiting it to selectively kill cancer cells (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2).

The dual role of CDK5 as both a neurodevelopmental regulator and a pathological mediator underscores the complexity of targeting this kinase therapeutically. Recent structural and mechanistic insights have enabled development of more selective inhibitors that distinguish between CDK5/p35 and CDK5/p25 complexes, potentially allowing therapeutic intervention in pathological states while preserving physiological functions (allnutt2020physiologicalandpathological pages 1-2).

Emerging evidence suggests that post-translational modifications of CDK5, including phosphorylation, S-nitrosylation, sumoylation, and acetylation, serve as molecular switches controlling kinase activity and could represent alternative therapeutic intervention points (gao2021posttranslationalmodificationsof pages 1-3). Targeting these regulatory mechanisms rather than directly inhibiting catalytic activity may offer improved specificity and reduced side effects.

The recognition that CDK5's functional output is defined by its substrates suggests that combination therapies targeting both CDK5 and specific downstream substrates may prove more effective than CDK5 inhibition alone (nikhil2023cdk5anoncogene pages 1-2, pao2021threedecadesof pages 4-5).

Conclusions

CDK5 is a multifunctional proline-directed serine/threonine kinase that plays essential roles in neuronal development, synaptic function, and cellular metabolism while contributing to multiple pathological processes when dysregulated. Its unique activation mechanism via p35/p39 rather than cyclins, dynamic subcellular localization, and extensive substrate repertoire make CDK5 a critical hub kinase integrating diverse signaling networks. Recent advances have revealed novel functions in mitotic regulation, mTORC1 activation, and precise mechanisms of tau phosphorylation, expanding therapeutic opportunities across neurodegenerative diseases and cancer. The context-dependent nature of CDK5 function emphasizes the need for nuanced therapeutic strategies that consider subcellular localization, activation state, and substrate specificity.

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📚 Additional Documentation

Notes

(CDK5-notes.md)

CDK5 notes

CDK5 is reviewed in the PN autophagosome maturation / lysosome fusion "specific function unknown" bucket. The PN row cites Drosophila Cdk5 phosphorylation of Acinus as basal-autophagy context, but the PN mapping is no-mapping/context-only, so that fly evidence is not used as direct human CDK5 GO evidence.

Human CDK5 is a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase activated by CDK5R1/p35 or CDK5R2/p39, with core roles in neuronal development, synaptic function, cytoskeletal regulation, and stress-linked neuronal death. UniProt states that CDK5 is a "Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase" and lists many substrates, including MAPT/tau, MAP2, MAP1B, SYN1, DNM1, AMPH, SYNJ1, SH3GLB1, p35/CDK5R1, MEF2A, TP53, and HTT [file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt, "Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase"; file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt, "Phosphorylates SRC, NOS3, VIM/vimentin"]. UniProt also summarizes neuronal functions including "neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission" [file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt, "neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission"].

The core kinase-complex context is CDK5 plus p35/p25/p39-family activators. UniProt states that CDK5 is "Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)" and that the active enzyme is a "Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1" [file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt, "Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)"; file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt, "Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1"]. The early structural/biochemical evidence supports CDK5/p25 complexes, but broad "protein binding" annotations should be replaced by the specific kinase-complex and kinase-activity terms.

CDK5 has direct human/neuron autophagy evidence through SH3GLB1/endophilin B1. The Nat Cell Biol paper reports an "unexpected role for Cdk5 in the regulation of induced autophagy in neurons", identifies EndoB1/SH3GLB1 as a substrate, and shows that CDK5-mediated EndoB1 phosphorylation is required for "autophagy induction in starved neurons" [PMID:21499257, "unexpected role for Cdk5 in the regulation of induced autophagy in neurons"; PMID:21499257, "autophagy induction in starved neurons"]. This supports retaining regulation of macroautophagy as a real, PN-relevant CDK5 function, even though CDK5 is not a constitutive core autophagy-machinery component.

Synaptic/NMDAR evidence supports specific receptor and synaptic-plasticity annotations, but not broad generic protein binding. Plattner et al. show that "serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)" and that CDK5-dependent NR2B phosphorylation "controls the receptor's cell surface expression" [PMID:24607229, "serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)"; PMID:24607229, "controls the receptor's cell surface expression"]. The same abstract says disrupting the NR2B-CDK5 interaction increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation [PMID:24607229, "increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation"].

Some microtubule annotations need caution. PMID:17491008 is about the p35 activator, not direct CDK5 microtubule binding: it says "p35 binds directly to alpha/beta-tubulin and microtubules" and that microtubules inhibit CDK5-p35 activity [PMID:17491008, "p35 binds directly to alpha/beta-tubulin and microtubules"; PMID:17491008, "Microtubule polymers but not the alpha/beta-tubulin heterodimer block p35 interaction with Cdk5"]. Therefore CDK5 microtubule-binding annotations should be kept non-core or marked over-annotated unless the annotation is about the CDK5R1/p35-containing complex context rather than CDK5 itself.

Curation decisions:
- Accept protein serine/threonine kinase, cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase, tau-protein kinase, ATP-binding, and protein kinase 5 complex annotations.
- Accept major neuronal/synaptic/cytoskeletal process rows as CDK5 core biology where they match UniProt/reviewed evidence; keep very broad cell-cycle/localization/process rows non-core.
- Accept regulation of macroautophagy based on human/neuron SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 evidence, but describe it as PN-relevant substrate-specific kinase regulation rather than a direct autophagy-machinery role.
- Mark generic protein binding rows as over-annotated.
- Treat receptor-binding/activator/inhibitor activity terms from similarity transfer conservatively unless direct evidence makes them more specific than kinase regulation.

Description cleanup note

The YAML description field was revised to keep it as a standalone biological summary. Project-specific curation framing moved here instead.

  • Moved out of the YAML description: PN autophagy context was used to interpret CDK5 mainly through substrate-specific phosphorylation of SH3GLB1/endophilin B1; Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus basal-autophagy evidence was treated as orthology context rather than direct human CDK5 evidence. Generic protein-binding rows were considered less informative than kinase, complex, substrate-specific, and neuronal process terms.

2026-06-20 second-pass audit

The second-pass audit added manual reference_review metadata for CDK5/p35 activation, CDK5/p25 structural context, induced-autophagy phosphorylation of SH3GLB1/endophilin B1, NR2B/GluN2B phosphorylation, and the p35-specific microtubule-binding caveat. No annotation action changes were needed: CDK5 remains curated as the catalytic serine/threonine kinase in CDK5R1/CDK5R2-activated complexes, with autophagy and receptor/synaptic effects treated as substrate-specific kinase outputs rather than broad direct binding functions.

Falcon deep research integration (2026-06-21)

The Falcon (Edison) report in CDK5-deep-research-falcon.md strongly corroborates the existing review: it confirms CDK5 as a CMGC-family proline-directed Ser/Thr kinase activated by non-cyclin p35 (CDK5R1)/p39 (CDK5R2) rather than cyclins, with calpain-cleaved p25/p29 driving mislocalized hyperactivation, tau/cytoskeletal/synaptic substrates, and neurodegeneration roles — all already captured. The following Falcon-sourced citations are not yet independently verified against full text.

Already covered (no change): non-cyclin p35/p39 activation; p25 (and p39→p29) calpain generation, loss of myristoyl membrane targeting, nuclear mislocalization, and neurotoxic hyperactivation; tau phosphorylation (T181/S202/T205/T217/S235/S396/S404) and Alzheimer's relevance; neuronal migration, synaptic/NMDAR (NR2A/NR2B), endocytosis (dynamin/amphiphysin), DARPP-32, neurodevelopment; p25/CDK5 cytoskeletal degeneration/apoptosis [Pao & Tsai, J Biomed Sci 2021, doi:10.1186/s12929-021-00774-y; Tian et al., Front Mol Neurosci 2022, doi:10.3389/fnmol.2022.1030639; Nikhil & Shah, Mol Cancer 2023, doi:10.1186/s12943-023-01895-8].

Genuinely NEW or REFINED beyond current notes/review (candidate substrate-specific kinase outputs; would expand BP coverage, not the core MF):
- Mitochondrial fission: CDK5 phosphorylates Drp1/DNM1L at Ser616 promoting fission, and Parkin at Ser131 reducing its E3 ligase activity (mitochondrial quality control); also Prx1 T90 / Prx2 T89 reducing peroxidase activity / increasing ROS [Tian et al., Front Mol Neurosci 2022, doi:10.3389/fnmol.2022.1030639; Pao & Tsai 2021, doi:10.1186/s12929-021-00774-y]. Relevant BP: GO:0000266 mitochondrial fission / GO:0090140 regulation of mitochondrial fission (not in review).
- mTORC1 activation: novel CDK5-PRMT1(S307)-WDR24/GATOR2 cascade activating mTORC1 in response to amino acids [Yin et al., Cell Reports 2023, doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112316]. Relevant BP: GO:0032008 positive regulation of TOR signaling (not in review).
- Circadian clock: CDK5 phosphorylates CLOCK (T451/T461, nuclear translocation) and PER2 (S394, stabilization) [Pao & Tsai 2021, doi:10.1186/s12929-021-00774-y]. Relevant BP: GO:0042752 regulation of circadian rhythm (not in review).
- SIRT2 (S331/S335) nuclear translocation driving dopaminergic neuron death in Parkinson's models [Yan et al., npj Parkinsons Dis 2022, doi:10.1038/s41531-022-00311-0] — refines the existing p25/neurodegeneration framing with a specific substrate.
- APP phosphorylation at Thr668 regulating APP localization/processing [Pao & Tsai 2021, doi:10.1186/s12929-021-00774-y] — Alzheimer's-relevant substrate beyond tau.
- Tau Thr217 as a specific AD-biomarker site impairing synaptic structure [Fu et al., Transl Psychiatry 2025, doi:10.1038/s41398-025-03551-9] — refines the tau-kinase annotation.

Notable DISCREPANCY to flag: Falcon highlights a 2024 Nature paper (Zheng et al., doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07888-x) showing CDK5 forms a complex with cyclin B1 and regulates mitotic fidelity, "challenging the traditional view that CDK5 has no cell-cycle function." The current review keeps cell-cycle terms (GO:1901987 regulation of cell cycle phase transition; GO:0051726 regulation of cell cycle) as KEEP_AS_NON_CORE on the basis that CDK5 is non-canonical/non-mitotic. This new primary evidence (if it holds up on full-text review) could argue those cell-cycle annotations have a genuine direct basis rather than being incidental — worth revisiting the NON_CORE rationale, though not necessarily changing the action. Note also the report contains a likely citation-mismatch artifact (a "synaptic remodeling in stroke (2026)" claim attributed to the Zheng cyclin-B1 reference), so treat Falcon's author-year tokens with caution.

No existing annotation appears contradicted by Falcon; the new findings are additive process candidates, not corrections.

Pn Notes

(CDK5-pn-notes.md)

CDK5 PN Consistency Notes

  • Generated: 2026-06-18
  • Project: PROTEOSTASIS
  • Scope: PN consistency rereview against local AIGR review and available deep-research artifacts
  • UniProt: Q00535
  • AIGR review status: COMPLETE
  • Review batch: proteostasis-pr-1217 (PR 1217)
  • Batch change status: added

Source Files Checked

Deep Research Files

  • No *-deep-research*.md file found in this gene directory.

AIGR Review Snapshot

  • Description: CDK5 encodes a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase activated by CDK5R1/p35, CDK5R1/p25, and CDK5R2/p39 family regulators, with major functions in neuronal development, neurite and axon growth, cytoskeletal and dendritic-spine dynamics, synaptic vesicle cycling, synaptic plasticity, and p25-linked neurodegenerative apoptosis as a stress/disease context. Human CDK5 also regulates induced neuronal autophagy through phosphorylation of SH3GLB1/endophilin B1.
  • Existing/core annotation action counts: ACCEPT: 76; KEEP_AS_NON_CORE: 30; MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED: 38; MODIFY: 5

PN Consistency Summary

  • Consistency: Consistent and well-handled. PN places CDK5 in the residual "function unknown" autophagy-maturation bucket on the strength of the Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus basal-autophagy work (same eLife paper underpinning ACIN1's PN row). The review does not import that as a human fact; instead it anchors a human autophagy role on CDK5→SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 phosphorylation (GO:0016241 regulation of macroautophagy, ACCEPT, PMID:21499257). The notes (line 2860) explicitly state the Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus evidence was treated as context-only. No contradiction.
  • PN story / NEW pressure: Already captured / PN over-reaches on the Acinus angle. PN's "unknown" autophagy-maturation placement is genuinely unknown for human CDK5; the review correctly mints no maturation term and routes the conserved-Acinus hypothesis into a suggested_question + suggested_experiment (does human CDK5 phosphorylate ACIN1 at the S437-equivalent?). The defensible human autophagy term GO:0016241 is already present. No ADD warranted.
  • Evidence alignment: Deliberately divergent. PN cites only the Drosophila eLife Cdk5-Acinus-S437 paper; the review's autophagy support is the human/neuron PMID:21499257 (endophilin B1), which PN does not cite. The divergence is the finding: PN's evidence is orthology-based, the review uses human evidence and quarantines the fly paper as a hypothesis.
  • Verdict: Fully consistent; exemplary handling of an orthology-driven "unknown" placement (parallels ACIN1). No edits needed.

Full Consistency Review

  • UniProt: Q00535 · batch: proteostasis-pr-1217 · review status: COMPLETE
  • PN placement: 1 row, ALP — Autophagosome closure maturation and lysosome fusion → "Specific function in autophagosome maturation and lysosome fusion unknown". PN-node mapping: leaf group=no_mapping ("unknown/residual"); class=context_only→GO:0016236; branch=no_mapping. No GO propagates. PN Notes: Drosophila Cdk5 phosphorylates ACN (acinus) at S437, stabilizing it and promoting basal autophagy.
  • Consistency: Consistent and well-handled. PN places CDK5 in the residual "function unknown" autophagy-maturation bucket on the strength of the Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus basal-autophagy work (same eLife paper underpinning ACIN1's PN row). The review does not import that as a human fact; instead it anchors a human autophagy role on CDK5→SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 phosphorylation (GO:0016241 regulation of macroautophagy, ACCEPT, PMID:21499257). The notes (line 2860) explicitly state the Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus evidence was treated as context-only. No contradiction.
  • PN story / NEW pressure: Already captured / PN over-reaches on the Acinus angle. PN's "unknown" autophagy-maturation placement is genuinely unknown for human CDK5; the review correctly mints no maturation term and routes the conserved-Acinus hypothesis into a suggested_question + suggested_experiment (does human CDK5 phosphorylate ACIN1 at the S437-equivalent?). The defensible human autophagy term GO:0016241 is already present. No ADD warranted.
  • Mapping strategy: No change. The leaf's no_mapping is the correct conservative call — the node label literally says "function unknown," so propagating GO:0016236 macroautophagy would be TRAPP-like over-propagation. CDK5's inclusion does not justify upgrading the node; its real human autophagy role (SH3GLB1) is already individually annotated and is regulation, not maturation.
  • Evidence alignment: Deliberately divergent. PN cites only the Drosophila eLife Cdk5-Acinus-S437 paper; the review's autophagy support is the human/neuron PMID:21499257 (endophilin B1), which PN does not cite. The divergence is the finding: PN's evidence is orthology-based, the review uses human evidence and quarantines the fly paper as a hypothesis.
  • Verdict: Fully consistent; exemplary handling of an orthology-driven "unknown" placement (parallels ACIN1). No edits needed.

PN Dossier Context

  • review_batch: proteostasis-pr-1217
  • review_yaml: genes/human/CDK5/CDK5-ai-review.yaml
  • PN workbook rows: 1

PN row 1: Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway | Autophagosome closure maturation and lysosome fusion | Specific function in autophagosome maturation and lysosome fusion unknown

  • UniProt: Q00535
  • In branches: ALP
  • Notes: Ser/Thr kinase. In Drosophila, phosphorylates ACN thereby stabilizing it and promoting basal autophagy
  • PN references (titles):
    • Stress-induced Cdk5 activity enhances cytoprotective basal autophagy in Drosophila melanogaster by phosphorylating acinus at serine437 | eLife (elifesciences.org)
  • PN-node mapping records (path + ancestors):
    • [group] Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway|Autophagosome closure maturation and lysosome fusion|Specific function in autophagosome maturation and lysosome fusion unknown
      status=no_mapping scope= GO=[]
      rationale: Reviewed as an unknown or residual PN category. The label does not provide a shared GO-mappable biological process, molecular function, or cellular component.
    • [class] Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway|Autophagosome closure maturation and lysosome fusion
      status=context_only scope=too_broad_to_propagate GO=[GO:0016236 macroautophagy]
      rationale: This class is a late macroautophagy context, but the subtree mixes docking, fusion, localization, membrane-composition, and unknown late-stage roles. The class-level relation is useful for display while propagation is restricted to narrower mechanism nodes.
    • [branch] Autophagy-Lysosome Pathway
      status=no_mapping scope= GO=[]
      rationale: Reviewed as the top-level PN branch. It is a project taxonomy umbrella rather than a direct GO assertion; all propagation must come from manually curated child nodes.

Note

This file is generated from the current PROTEOSTASIS phase-1 dossier and local gene-review artifacts. Edit the source review, PN mapping, or dossier rather than this generated note when correcting the underlying curation.

📄 View Raw YAML

id: Q00535
gene_symbol: CDK5
product_type: PROTEIN
status: COMPLETE
taxon:
  id: NCBITaxon:9606
  label: Homo sapiens
description: >-
  CDK5 encodes a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase activated by CDK5R1/p35, CDK5R1/p25, and
  CDK5R2/p39 family regulators, with major functions in neuronal development, neurite and axon growth,
  cytoskeletal and dendritic-spine dynamics, synaptic vesicle cycling, synaptic plasticity, and
  p25-linked neurodegenerative apoptosis as a stress/disease context. Human CDK5 also regulates
  induced neuronal autophagy through phosphorylation of SH3GLB1/endophilin B1. Beyond the nervous
  system, CDK5 partners with cyclin B1 in proliferating cells and is active during mitosis, where it
  acts as a canonical CDK-cyclin kinase required for mitotic fidelity.
alternative_products:
- name: '1'
  id: Q00535-1
- name: 2 (CDK5-SV {ECO:0000303|PubMed:19693690})
  id: Q00535-2
  sequence_note: VSP_041948
existing_annotations:
- term:
    id: GO:0000307
    label: cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex
  evidence_type: IBA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000033
  qualifier: part_of
  review:
    summary: cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0005737
    label: cytoplasm
  evidence_type: IBA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000033
  qualifier: is_active_in
  review:
    summary: cytoplasm is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0004693
    label: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: IBA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000033
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:1901987
    label: regulation of cell cycle phase transition
  evidence_type: IBA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000033
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of cell cycle phase transition is a core CDK5 process. CDK5 was long classified as an atypical CDK with no direct cell-cycle role, but Zheng et al. 2024 (Nature) demonstrated that CDK5 is active during mitosis, partners with cyclin B1, and is required for mitotic fidelity - a direct, enzymatically-mediated function rather than over-propagation.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: Experimentally established direct function- CDK5-cyclin B1 acts as a canonical CDK-cyclin complex that phosphorylates mitotic substrates to ensure mitotic fidelity (Zheng et al. 2024, PMID:39232161). This is a bona fide core CDK5 kinase function operating in proliferating cells via cyclin B1, complementary to (not subordinate to) its p35/p39-activated neuronal kinase role.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:39232161
      supporting_text: CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
    - reference_id: PMID:39232161
      supporting_text: cyclin B1 is a mitotic co-factor of CDK5
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-deep-research-falcon.md
      supporting_text: CDK5 can form a complex with cyclin B1 and regulate mitotic fidelity, challenging the traditional view that CDK5 has no cell cycle function
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
- term:
    id: GO:0007409
    label: axonogenesis
  evidence_type: IBA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000033
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: axonogenesis is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0048489
    label: synaptic vesicle transport
  evidence_type: IBA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000033
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: synaptic vesicle transport is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0051402
    label: neuron apoptotic process
  evidence_type: IBA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000033
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: Keep neuron apoptotic process as a non-core p25-linked neurotoxicity/stress annotation rather than canonical core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The strongest apoptosis evidence is pathological calpain cleavage of CDK5R1/p35 to p25, causing constitutive and mislocalized CDK5 activity in neurodegenerative stress models; this is not the core developmental/synaptic CDK5 function.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: p25, a truncated form of p35, accumulates in neurons in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: p25/Cdk5 complex in cultured primary neurons induces cytoskeletal disruption, morphological degeneration and apoptosis
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: cleavage of p35, followed by accumulation of p25, may be involved in the pathogenesis of cytoskeletal abnormalities and neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases
- term:
    id: GO:0004672
    label: protein kinase activity
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000120
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein kinase activity is correct but too broad for CDK5.
    action: MODIFY
    reason: Replace the broad kinase parent with the more informative cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity term.
    proposed_replacement_terms:
    - id: GO:0004693
      label: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000120
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0005524
    label: ATP binding
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000002
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: ATP binding is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0005634
    label: nucleus
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000120
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: nucleus is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0005737
    label: cytoplasm
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000120
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytoplasm is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0005886
    label: plasma membrane
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000044
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: plasma membrane is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0007409
    label: axonogenesis
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000117
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: axonogenesis is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0014069
    label: postsynaptic density
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000044
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: Accept postsynaptic density as a supported synaptic CDK5 localization.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: UniProt gives a specific postsynaptic density localization by similarity, consistent with CDK5 synaptic substrate regulation.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Postsynaptic density
- term:
    id: GO:0030027
    label: lamellipodium
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000120
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: Accept lamellipodium as a specific CDK5 cell-projection localization supported by UniProt.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The UniProt subcellular-location line explicitly includes lamellipodium in the cell-projection context.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Perikaryon. Cell projection, lamellipodium
- term:
    id: GO:0030426
    label: growth cone
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000044
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: growth cone is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0043204
    label: perikaryon
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000044
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: Accept perikaryon as a specific CDK5 neuronal-cell-body localization supported by UniProt.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The UniProt subcellular-location line explicitly includes perikaryon.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Perikaryon. Cell projection, lamellipodium
- term:
    id: GO:0045202
    label: synapse
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000044
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: synapse is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0051649
    label: establishment of localization in cell
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000117
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: establishment of localization in cell is a secondary or broad CDK5 process annotation.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The term reflects a true downstream or disease/stress context, but it is broader or less central than CDK5 kinase activity and neuronal/synaptic substrate regulation.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0051726
    label: regulation of cell cycle
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000117
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of cell cycle is a core CDK5 process. Historically CDK5 was thought to lack a direct cell-cycle role; Zheng et al. 2024 (Nature) showed CDK5 is active during mitosis and, with cyclin B1, is required for mitotic fidelity, establishing this as a genuine direct function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: Experimentally established by the demonstration that CDK5 forms a functional CDK-cyclin complex with cyclin B1 and ensures mitotic fidelity (Zheng et al. 2024, PMID:39232161). Treated as a core CDK5 kinase function in proliferating cells, complementary to its p35/p39-activated neuronal/synaptic signaling.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:39232161
      supporting_text: CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
    - reference_id: PMID:39232161
      supporting_text: cyclin B1 is a mitotic co-factor of CDK5
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
- term:
    id: GO:0098793
    label: presynapse
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000120
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: Keep presynapse as non-core synaptic localization context.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The accessible UniProt text supports synapse broadly, but not presynapse specifically; the core localization should remain broader synapse/postsynaptic density/growth cone/neuron projection contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Synapse
- term:
    id: GO:0106310
    label: protein serine kinase activity
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000116
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Protein serine kinase activity is too narrow/incomplete for CDK5.
    action: MODIFY
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates both serine and threonine residues, so protein serine/threonine kinase activity is the better molecular-function term.
    proposed_replacement_terms:
    - id: GO:0004674
      label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:14521924
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:15689152
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:15890360
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:17078951
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:20133653
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:20559324
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:21220307
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:22078880
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:23455922
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:23543736
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:23602568
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:25416956
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:25852190
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:26871637
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:27107012
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:28514442
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:30833792
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:32296183
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:32707033
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:32812023
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:32814053
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:33961781
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:34591612
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:35016035
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:35063084
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:35271311
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0002039
    label: p53 binding
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: p53 binding is a specific substrate/regulator binding context, not the core molecular function.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This binding annotation is more specific than generic protein binding, but CDK5 should primarily be represented by kinase activity and substrate phosphorylation/regulation terms.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Interacts with P53/TP53 in neurons
- term:
    id: GO:0005176
    label: ErbB-2 class receptor binding
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: ErbB-2 class receptor binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0016533
    label: protein kinase 5 complex
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000120
  qualifier: part_of
  review:
    summary: protein kinase 5 complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0030175
    label: filopodium
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: Keep filopodium as non-core fine cell-projection localization context.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The accessible evidence supports CDK5 at cell projections and lamellipodia/growth cones, but not a specific filopodium localization as a core CDK5 compartment.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Perikaryon. Cell projection, lamellipodium
- term:
    id: GO:0030424
    label: axon
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: axon is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0030547
    label: signaling receptor inhibitor activity
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: signaling receptor inhibitor activity overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0030549
    label: acetylcholine receptor activator activity
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: acetylcholine receptor activator activity overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0043125
    label: ErbB-3 class receptor binding
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: ErbB-3 class receptor binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0051879
    label: Hsp90 protein binding
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Hsp90 protein binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0051966
    label: regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0061001
    label: regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:1903076
    label: regulation of protein localization to plasma membrane
  evidence_type: IEA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000107
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of protein localization to plasma membrane is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0000307
    label: cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:16039528
  qualifier: part_of
  review:
    summary: cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0016533
    label: protein kinase 5 complex
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:15689152
  qualifier: part_of
  review:
    summary: protein kinase 5 complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0016533
    label: protein kinase 5 complex
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:16039528
  qualifier: part_of
  review:
    summary: protein kinase 5 complex is a supported CDK5 kinase-complex annotation.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 functions as a catalytic subunit in heterodimeric CDK5R-containing kinase complexes.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0005654
    label: nucleoplasm
  evidence_type: IDA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000052
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: nucleoplasm is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005886
    label: plasma membrane
  evidence_type: IDA
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000052
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: plasma membrane is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-399944
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863007
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863011
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863014
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004693
    label: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-180047
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: IDA
  original_reference_id: PMID:24607229
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0030547
    label: signaling receptor inhibitor activity
  evidence_type: IMP
  original_reference_id: PMID:24607229
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: signaling receptor inhibitor activity overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0035255
    label: ionotropic glutamate receptor binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:24607229
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: ionotropic glutamate receptor binding is a specific substrate/regulator binding context, not the core molecular function.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This binding annotation is more specific than generic protein binding, but CDK5 should primarily be represented by kinase activity and substrate phosphorylation/regulation terms.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
- term:
    id: GO:0005634
    label: nucleus
  evidence_type: EXP
  original_reference_id: PMID:12691662
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: nucleus is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0005737
    label: cytoplasm
  evidence_type: EXP
  original_reference_id: PMID:12691662
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytoplasm is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0005886
    label: plasma membrane
  evidence_type: EXP
  original_reference_id: PMID:17009320
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: plasma membrane is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0014069
    label: postsynaptic density
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: Accept postsynaptic density as a supported synaptic CDK5 localization.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: UniProt gives a specific postsynaptic density localization by similarity, consistent with CDK5 synaptic substrate regulation.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Postsynaptic density
- term:
    id: GO:0045202
    label: synapse
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: synapse is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0099533
    label: positive regulation of presynaptic cytosolic calcium concentration
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: positive regulation of presynaptic cytosolic calcium concentration is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:1903234
    label: negative regulation of calcium ion-dependent exocytosis of neurotransmitter
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: acts_upstream_of_or_within
  review:
    summary: negative regulation of calcium ion-dependent exocytosis of neurotransmitter is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:17491008
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0030036
    label: actin cytoskeleton organization
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: actin cytoskeleton organization is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:8090221
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0048156
    label: tau protein binding
  evidence_type: NAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:28386764
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: tau protein binding is a specific substrate/regulator binding context, not the core molecular function.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This binding annotation is more specific than generic protein binding, but CDK5 should primarily be represented by kinase activity and substrate phosphorylation/regulation terms.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: microtubule-binding proteins (e.g. MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B)
- term:
    id: GO:0050321
    label: tau-protein kinase activity
  evidence_type: NAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:28386764
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: tau-protein kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: microtubule-binding proteins (e.g. MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0016020
    label: membrane
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: membrane is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0030426
    label: growth cone
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: growth cone is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0043005
    label: neuron projection
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: neuron projection is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: NAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:28386764
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0051966
    label: regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0005737
    label: cytoplasm
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytoplasm is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0005874
    label: microtubule
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: colocalizes_with
  review:
    summary: microtubule is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:17491008
      supporting_text: p35 binds directly to alpha/beta-tubulin and microtubules
    - reference_id: PMID:17491008
      supporting_text: Microtubule polymers but not the alpha/beta-tubulin heterodimer block p35 interaction with Cdk5
- term:
    id: GO:0008017
    label: microtubule binding
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:17491008
  qualifier: enables
  negated: true
  review:
    summary: Microtubule binding is over-attributed to CDK5 itself.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The cited evidence supports microtubule binding by the p35/CDK5R1 activator and regulation of CDK5-p35 activity by microtubules, not direct CDK5 microtubule-binding as its molecular function.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:17491008
      supporting_text: p35 binds directly to alpha/beta-tubulin and microtubules
    - reference_id: PMID:17491008
      supporting_text: Microtubule polymers but not the alpha/beta-tubulin heterodimer block p35 interaction with Cdk5
- term:
    id: GO:0000226
    label: microtubule cytoskeleton organization
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:17491008
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: microtubule cytoskeleton organization is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0031175
    label: neuron projection development
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:17491008
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: neuron projection development is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0048167
    label: regulation of synaptic plasticity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:24607229
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of synaptic plasticity is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:1903076
    label: regulation of protein localization to plasma membrane
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of protein localization to plasma membrane is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:1904646
    label: cellular response to amyloid-beta
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: cellular response to amyloid-beta is a secondary or broad CDK5 process annotation.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The term reflects a true downstream or disease/stress context, but it is broader or less central than CDK5 kinase activity and neuronal/synaptic substrate regulation.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0005654
    label: nucleoplasm
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863014
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: nucleoplasm is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005654
    label: nucleoplasm
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863587
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: nucleoplasm is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005654
    label: nucleoplasm
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-6805276
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: nucleoplasm is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0016241
    label: regulation of macroautophagy
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21499257
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: Regulation of macroautophagy is a supported PN-relevant CDK5 substrate-specific process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: Human/neuron evidence shows CDK5 phosphorylates SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 and is required for induced autophagy in starved neurons and Parkinson disease models.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:21499257
      supporting_text: unexpected role for Cdk5 in the regulation of induced autophagy in neurons
    - reference_id: PMID:21499257
      supporting_text: autophagy induction in starved neurons
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Phosphorylation of SH3GLB1 is required for autophagy induction in starved neurons
- term:
    id: GO:1903421
    label: regulation of synaptic vesicle recycling
  evidence_type: NAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:22745285
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of synaptic vesicle recycling is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0045861
    label: negative regulation of proteolysis
  evidence_type: IMP
  original_reference_id: PMID:24548080
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: negative regulation of proteolysis is a secondary or broad CDK5 process annotation.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The term reflects a true downstream or disease/stress context, but it is broader or less central than CDK5 kinase activity and neuronal/synaptic substrate regulation.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-399944
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-399951
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-NUL-9032945
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-180047
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863007
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863011
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863013
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0005829
    label: cytosol
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863587
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: cytosol is a broad or complex-context CDK5 localization.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: This location is compatible with CDK5 biology but is less informative than CDK5 kinase-complex, synaptic, neuronal projection, and growth-cone contexts.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
- term:
    id: GO:0048167
    label: regulation of synaptic plasticity
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of synaptic plasticity is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0001764
    label: neuron migration
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: neuron migration is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0007268
    label: chemical synaptic transmission
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: chemical synaptic transmission is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0007416
    label: synapse assembly
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: synapse assembly is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0016079
    label: synaptic vesicle exocytosis
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: synaptic vesicle exocytosis is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0030182
    label: neuron differentiation
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: neuron differentiation is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0042981
    label: regulation of apoptotic process
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of apoptotic process is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0048167
    label: regulation of synaptic plasticity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of synaptic plasticity is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0048488
    label: synaptic vesicle endocytosis
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: synaptic vesicle endocytosis is a core CDK5 synaptic process.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 phosphorylates synaptic release, endocytosis, and NMDAR-associated substrates and regulates synaptic plasticity/neurotransmission.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: serine 1116 of NR2B is phosphorylated by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5)
    - reference_id: PMID:24607229
      supporting_text: increases NR2B surface levels, facilitates synaptic transmission, and improves memory formation
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0048675
    label: axon extension
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: axon extension is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0048709
    label: oligodendrocyte differentiation
  evidence_type: IDA
  original_reference_id: PMID:18042622
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: oligodendrocyte differentiation is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0051402
    label: neuron apoptotic process
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: Keep neuron apoptotic process as a non-core p25-linked neurotoxicity/stress annotation rather than canonical core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The strongest apoptosis evidence is pathological calpain cleavage of CDK5R1/p35 to p25, causing constitutive and mislocalized CDK5 activity in neurodegenerative stress models; this is not the core developmental/synaptic CDK5 function.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: p25, a truncated form of p35, accumulates in neurons in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: p25/Cdk5 complex in cultured primary neurons induces cytoskeletal disruption, morphological degeneration and apoptosis
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: cleavage of p35, followed by accumulation of p25, may be involved in the pathogenesis of cytoskeletal abnormalities and neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases
- term:
    id: GO:0051726
    label: regulation of cell cycle
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:21473899
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of cell cycle is a core CDK5 process. Historically CDK5 was thought to lack a direct cell-cycle role; Zheng et al. 2024 (Nature) showed CDK5 is active during mitosis and, with cyclin B1, is required for mitotic fidelity, establishing this as a genuine direct function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: Experimentally established by the demonstration that CDK5 forms a functional CDK-cyclin complex with cyclin B1 and ensures mitotic fidelity (Zheng et al. 2024, PMID:39232161). Treated as a core CDK5 kinase function in proliferating cells, complementary to its p35/p39-activated neuronal/synaptic signaling.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:39232161
      supporting_text: CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
    - reference_id: PMID:39232161
      supporting_text: cyclin B1 is a mitotic co-factor of CDK5
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
- term:
    id: GO:0061001
    label: regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: IDA
  original_reference_id: PMID:20357208
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0045892
    label: negative regulation of DNA-templated transcription
  evidence_type: IMP
  original_reference_id: PMID:20357208
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: negative regulation of DNA-templated transcription is a secondary or broad CDK5 process annotation.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The term reflects a true downstream or disease/stress context, but it is broader or less central than CDK5 kinase activity and neuronal/synaptic substrate regulation.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: IDA
  original_reference_id: PMID:21145489
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0005176
    label: ErbB-2 class receptor binding
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: ErbB-2 class receptor binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0005515
    label: protein binding
  evidence_type: IPI
  original_reference_id: PMID:12223541
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: Generic protein binding does not describe CDK5 function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: The specific function is CDK5-regulated phosphorylation in CDK5R/p35-p25-p39 complexes and substrate-specific neuronal/autophagy signaling. Generic protein binding rows should not be treated as informative GO molecular-function annotations.
- term:
    id: GO:0005634
    label: nucleus
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: nucleus is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0016301
    label: kinase activity
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: kinase activity is correct but too broad for CDK5.
    action: MODIFY
    reason: Replace the broad kinase parent with the more informative cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity term.
    proposed_replacement_terms:
    - id: GO:0004693
      label: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0030182
    label: neuron differentiation
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: neuron differentiation is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0030424
    label: axon
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: axon is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0030425
    label: dendrite
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: dendrite is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0030549
    label: acetylcholine receptor activator activity
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: acetylcholine receptor activator activity overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0031175
    label: neuron projection development
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: neuron projection development is part of core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 regulates neuronal development, neurite/axon growth, cytoskeletal dynamics, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, and neuronal survival/death.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0031594
    label: neuromuscular junction
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: neuromuscular junction is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0043025
    label: neuronal cell body
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: located_in
  review:
    summary: neuronal cell body is a supported CDK5 localization/context.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: The localization is consistent with CDK5 neuronal kinase function across cytoplasm, nucleus, membranes, synapses, growth cones, and neuronal projections.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: 'SUBCELLULAR LOCATION: [Isoform 1]: Cytoplasm'
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Nucleus {ECO:0000269|PubMed:12691662}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Cell membrane {ECO:0000269|PubMed:17009320}
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
    - reference_id: PMID:21473899
      supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
- term:
    id: GO:0043125
    label: ErbB-3 class receptor binding
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: ErbB-3 class receptor binding overstates a downstream/regulatory interaction as a CDK5 molecular function.
    action: MARK_AS_OVER_ANNOTATED
    reason: These transferred receptor/regulator-binding terms do not capture CDK5's catalytic function and are less defensible than kinase activity plus substrate-specific process annotations.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0043525
    label: positive regulation of neuron apoptotic process
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: involved_in
  review:
    summary: Keep positive regulation of neuron apoptotic process as a non-core p25-linked neurotoxicity/stress annotation rather than canonical core CDK5 neuronal kinase biology.
    action: KEEP_AS_NON_CORE
    reason: The strongest apoptosis evidence is pathological calpain cleavage of CDK5R1/p35 to p25, causing constitutive and mislocalized CDK5 activity in neurodegenerative stress models; this is not the core developmental/synaptic CDK5 function.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: p25, a truncated form of p35, accumulates in neurons in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: p25/Cdk5 complex in cultured primary neurons induces cytoskeletal disruption, morphological degeneration and apoptosis
    - reference_id: PMID:10604467
      supporting_text: cleavage of p35, followed by accumulation of p25, may be involved in the pathogenesis of cytoskeletal abnormalities and neuronal death in neurodegenerative diseases
- term:
    id: GO:0050321
    label: tau-protein kinase activity
  evidence_type: ISS
  original_reference_id: GO_REF:0000024
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: tau-protein kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: microtubule-binding proteins (e.g. MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
- term:
    id: GO:0004672
    label: protein kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:1639063
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein kinase activity is correct but too broad for CDK5.
    action: MODIFY
    reason: Replace the broad kinase parent with the more informative cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity term.
    proposed_replacement_terms:
    - id: GO:0004693
      label: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004672
    label: protein kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:7834371
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein kinase activity is correct but too broad for CDK5.
    action: MODIFY
    reason: Replace the broad kinase parent with the more informative cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity term.
    proposed_replacement_terms:
    - id: GO:0004693
      label: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
- term:
    id: GO:0004674
    label: protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  evidence_type: TAS
  original_reference_id: PMID:1639063
  qualifier: enables
  review:
    summary: protein serine/threonine kinase activity is a core CDK5 molecular function.
    action: ACCEPT
    reason: CDK5 is a CDK-family proline-directed serine/threonine protein kinase that uses ATP and is activated in CDK5R-containing kinase complexes; tau/MAPT and other neuronal proteins are established substrates.
    supported_by:
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
    - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
      supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
references:
- id: GO_REF:0000002
  title: Gene Ontology annotation through association of InterPro records with GO terms
  findings: []
- id: GO_REF:0000024
  title: Manual transfer of experimentally-verified manual GO annotation data to orthologs by curator judgment of sequence similarity
  findings: []
- id: GO_REF:0000033
  title: Annotation inferences using phylogenetic trees
  findings: []
- id: GO_REF:0000044
  title: Gene Ontology annotation based on UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot Subcellular Location vocabulary mapping, accompanied by conservative changes to GO terms applied by UniProt
  findings: []
- id: GO_REF:0000052
  title: Gene Ontology annotation based on curation of immunofluorescence data
  findings: []
- id: GO_REF:0000107
  title: Automatic transfer of experimentally verified manual GO annotation data to orthologs using Ensembl Compara
  findings: []
- id: GO_REF:0000116
  title: Automatic Gene Ontology annotation based on Rhea mapping
  findings: []
- id: GO_REF:0000117
  title: Electronic Gene Ontology annotations created by ARBA machine learning models
  findings: []
- id: GO_REF:0000120
  title: Combined Automated Annotation using Multiple IEA Methods
  findings: []
- id: PMID:39232161
  title: CDK5-cyclin B1 regulates mitotic fidelity.
  findings:
  - statement: CDK5, long classified as an atypical CDK without a direct cell-cycle role, is active during mitosis and partners with cyclin B1 (not only its neuronal p35/p39 activators) to maintain mitotic fidelity, validating CDK5 cell-cycle-regulation annotations as a genuine extra-neuronal function.
    supporting_text: CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
  reference_review:
    relevance: HIGH
    correctness: VERIFIED
    review_notes: PubMed/PMC-verified (PMID:39232161, Nature 2024). Establishes a bona fide, direct mitotic role for CDK5 via cyclin B1 (a canonical CDK-cyclin complex ensuring mitotic fidelity); basis for treating regulation of cell cycle / cell cycle phase transition as a core CDK5 function alongside its neuronal kinase biology.
- id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-deep-research-falcon.md
  title: Falcon deep research report for CDK5
  findings:
  - statement: Falcon deep research corroborates the existing CDK5 review (p35/p39 activation, p25 hyperactivation, tau/synaptic/cytoskeletal substrates, neurodegeneration) and surfaces the 2024 Nature CDK5-cyclin B1 mitotic-fidelity finding plus additional substrate-specific roles (Drp1 mitochondrial fission, CLOCK/PER2 circadian, PRMT1-mTORC1).
    supporting_text: CDK5 can form a complex with cyclin B1 and regulate mitotic fidelity, challenging the traditional view that CDK5 has no cell cycle function
- id: PMID:12223541
  title: The cyclin-dependent kinase 5 activators p35 and p39 interact with the alpha-subunit of Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II and alpha-actinin-1 in a calcium-dependent manner.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:12691662
  title: Cdk5-mediated inhibition of the protective effects of transcription factor MEF2 in neurotoxicity-induced apoptosis.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:14521924
  title: Apoptosis-associated tyrosine kinase is a Cdk5 activator p35 binding protein.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:15689152
  title: Mechanism of CDK5/p25 binding by CDK inhibitors.
  findings: []
  reference_review:
    relevance: MEDIUM
    correctness: VERIFIED
    review_notes: Cached abstract supports the CDK5/p25 kinase-complex 
      structure used for CDK5 complex and inhibitor-binding context, but it is 
      not the primary physiological-function evidence.
- id: PMID:15890360
  title: Molecular basis for the specificity of p27 toward cyclin-dependent kinases that regulate cell division.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:16039528
  title: Defining Cdk5 ligand chemical space with small molecule inhibitors of tau phosphorylation.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:1639063
  title: A family of human cdc2-related protein kinases.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:17009320
  title: cdk5 modulates beta- and delta-catenin/Pin1 interactions in neuronal cells.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:17078951
  title: PKA modulates GSK-3beta- and cdk5-catalyzed phosphorylation of tau in site- and kinase-specific manners.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:17491008
  title: Microtubule association of the neuronal p35 activator of Cdk5.
  findings:
  - statement: p35/CDK5R1, not necessarily CDK5 itself, binds microtubules and regulates CDK5-p35 activity.
  reference_review:
    relevance: MEDIUM
    correctness: VERIFIED
    review_notes: Cached abstract supports microtubule association of the p35 
      activator and regulation of CDK5-p35 activity; this cautions against 
      treating CDK5 itself as the direct microtubule-binding protein.
- id: PMID:18042622
  title: Cdk5 regulates differentiation of oligodendrocyte precursor cells through the direct phosphorylation of paxillin.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:20133653
  title: No difference in kinetics of tau or histone phosphorylation by CDK5/p25 versus CDK5/p35 in vitro.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:20357208
  title: Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 modulates the transcriptional activity of the mineralocorticoid receptor and regulates expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:20559324
  title: Cables1 protects p63 from proteasomal degradation to ensure deletion of cells after genotoxic stress.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:21145489
  title: The proapoptotic function of Noxa in human leukemia cells is regulated by the kinase Cdk5 and by glucose.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:21220307
  title: Phosphorylation of glutamyl-prolyl tRNA synthetase by cyclin-dependent kinase 5 dictates transcript-selective translational control.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:21473899
  title: 'Cdk5: multitasking between physiological and pathological conditions.'
  findings:
  - statement: Review summarizing CDK5 as a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase linked to neuronal migration, cortical layering, synaptic plasticity, and neurodegenerative dysregulation.
  reference_review:
    relevance: MEDIUM
    correctness: VERIFIED
    review_notes: Review article supporting high-level CDK5 neuronal and 
      neurodegeneration framing; useful synthesis but not primary experimental
      evidence.
- id: PMID:21499257
  title: Cdk5-mediated phosphorylation of endophilin B1 is required for induced autophagy in models of Parkinson's disease.
  findings:
  - statement: CDK5 phosphorylates SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 and is required for induced neuronal autophagy in starvation and Parkinson disease models.
  reference_review:
    relevance: HIGH
    correctness: VERIFIED
    review_notes: Cached abstract directly supports CDK5-mediated 
      phosphorylation of endophilin B1/SH3GLB1 and CDK5 requirement for induced
      neuronal autophagy.
- id: PMID:22078880
  title: "Adipocyte NCoR knockout decreases PPAR\u03B3 phosphorylation and enhances PPAR\u03B3 activity and insulin sensitivity."
  findings: []
- id: PMID:22745285
  title: Synaptic vesicle pools and dynamics.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:23455922
  title: Interlaboratory reproducibility of large-scale human protein-complex analysis by standardized AP-MS.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:23543736
  title: Ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) acts as a novel potentiator of cyclin-dependent kinases to enhance cell proliferation independently of its hydrolase activity.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:23602568
  title: The protein interaction landscape of the human CMGC kinase group.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:24548080
  title: CDK5 protects from caspase-induced Ataxin-3 cleavage and neurodegeneration.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:24607229
  title: Memory enhancement by targeting Cdk5 regulation of NR2B.
  findings:
  - statement: CDK5 phosphorylates NR2B/GluN2B Ser1116, regulating NMDAR surface expression, synaptic transmission, and memory.
  reference_review:
    relevance: HIGH
    correctness: VERIFIED
    review_notes: Cached full-text record supports CDK5 phosphorylation of 
      NR2B/GluN2B and regulation of NMDA receptor surface expression, synaptic
      transmission, and memory.
- id: PMID:25416956
  title: A proteome-scale map of the human interactome network.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:25852190
  title: Integrative analysis of kinase networks in TRAIL-induced apoptosis provides a source of potential targets for combination therapy.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:26871637
  title: Widespread Expansion of Protein Interaction Capabilities by Alternative Splicing.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:27107012
  title: Pooled-matrix protein interaction screens using Barcode Fusion Genetics.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:28386764
  title: Roles of tau protein in health and disease.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:28514442
  title: Architecture of the human interactome defines protein communities and disease networks.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:30833792
  title: A protein-interaction network of interferon-stimulated genes extends the innate immune system landscape.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:32296183
  title: A reference map of the human binary protein interactome.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:32707033
  title: Kinase Interaction Network Expands Functional and Disease Roles of Human Kinases.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:32812023
  title: Phosphorylated tau interactome in the human Alzheimer's disease brain.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:32814053
  title: Interactome Mapping Provides a Network of Neurodegenerative Disease Proteins and Uncovers Widespread Protein Aggregation in Affected Brains.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:33961781
  title: Dual proteome-scale networks reveal cell-specific remodeling of the human interactome.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:34591612
  title: A protein interaction landscape of breast cancer.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:35016035
  title: Identification and functional characterization of transcriptional activators in human cells.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:35063084
  title: Tau interactome maps synaptic and mitochondrial processes associated with neurodegeneration.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:35271311
  title: 'OpenCell: Endogenous tagging for the cartography of human cellular organization.'
  findings: []
- id: PMID:7834371
  title: Expression of CDK5 (PSSALRE kinase), a neural cdc2-related protein kinase, in the mature and developing mouse central and peripheral nervous systems.
  findings: []
- id: PMID:8090221
  title: p35 is a neural-specific regulatory subunit of cyclin-dependent kinase 5.
  findings: []
  reference_review:
    relevance: HIGH
    correctness: VERIFIED
    review_notes: Cached abstract supports CDK5 activation by the neuronal p35 
      regulatory subunit and the CDK5-p35 kinase-complex model.
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-180047
  title: CDK5 phosphorylates DARPP-32 on Thr75
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-399944
  title: Phosphorylation of CRMPs by Cdk5
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-399951
  title: Phosphorylation of CRMPs by GSK3beta
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-6805276
  title: CDK5 phosphorylates TP53
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863007
  title: p25-bound CDK5 phosphorylates CDC25B
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863011
  title: p25-bound CDK5 phosphorylates CDC25C
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863013
  title: CDK5 binds p25
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863014
  title: p25-bound CDK5 phosphorylates CDC25A
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-HSA-8863587
  title: CDK5:p25 translocates to the nucleus
  findings: []
- id: Reactome:R-NUL-9032945
  title: Ntrk2 phosohorylates CDK5
  findings: []
- id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
  title: UniProtKB record for human CDK5
  findings:
  - statement: UniProt summarizes CDK5 as a proline-directed serine/threonine kinase activated by CDK5R1/CDK5R2, with neuronal, synaptic, cytoskeletal, apoptosis, and substrate-specific autophagy functions.
- id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-notes.md
  title: CDK5 review notes
  findings:
  - statement: Manual PN-focused CDK5 notes; Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus autophagy evidence was treated as context only, while human SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 evidence supported regulation of macroautophagy.
core_functions:
- molecular_function:
    id: GO:0004693
    label: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  description: CDK5 is a CDK5R-activated proline-directed serine/threonine kinase that phosphorylates neuronal, synaptic, cytoskeletal, stress-response, and autophagy-associated substrates.
  directly_involved_in:
  - id: GO:0007409
    label: axonogenesis
  - id: GO:0001764
    label: neuron migration
  - id: GO:0030182
    label: neuron differentiation
  - id: GO:0031175
    label: neuron projection development
  - id: GO:0048675
    label: axon extension
  - id: GO:0007416
    label: synapse assembly
  - id: GO:0016079
    label: synaptic vesicle exocytosis
  - id: GO:0048488
    label: synaptic vesicle endocytosis
  - id: GO:0048167
    label: regulation of synaptic plasticity
  - id: GO:0051966
    label: regulation of synaptic transmission, glutamatergic
  - id: GO:0061001
    label: regulation of dendritic spine morphogenesis
  - id: GO:0016241
    label: regulation of macroautophagy
  locations:
  - id: GO:0014069
    label: postsynaptic density
  - id: GO:0030426
    label: growth cone
  - id: GO:0045202
    label: synapse
  - id: GO:0030424
    label: axon
  - id: GO:0005737
    label: cytoplasm
  - id: GO:0005634
    label: nucleus
  in_complex:
    id: GO:0016533
    label: protein kinase 5 complex
  supported_by:
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Activated by interaction with CDK5R1 (p35) and CDK5R2 (p39)
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Heterodimer composed of a catalytic subunit CDK5 and a regulatory subunit CDK5R1
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
  - reference_id: PMID:21473899
    supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: regulates neurotransmitter movements by phosphorylating substrates associated with neurotransmitter release and synapse plasticity
  - reference_id: PMID:24607229
    supporting_text: controls the receptor's cell surface expression
  - reference_id: PMID:21499257
    supporting_text: unexpected role for Cdk5 in the regulation of induced autophagy in neurons
  - reference_id: PMID:21499257
    supporting_text: autophagy induction in starved neurons
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Phosphorylation of SH3GLB1 is required for autophagy induction in starved neurons
- molecular_function:
    id: GO:0004693
    label: cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
  description: In proliferating (non-neuronal) cells CDK5 partners with cyclin B1, rather than its neuronal p35/p39 activators, and is active during mitosis; this CDK5-cyclin B1 complex behaves as a canonical CDK-cyclin kinase that phosphorylates mitotic substrates to safeguard mitotic fidelity and genome stability.
  directly_involved_in:
  - id: GO:0051726
    label: regulation of cell cycle
  - id: GO:1901987
    label: regulation of cell cycle phase transition
  supported_by:
  - reference_id: PMID:39232161
    supporting_text: CDK5 is active throughout mitosis
  - reference_id: PMID:39232161
    supporting_text: cyclin B1 is a mitotic co-factor of CDK5
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-deep-research-falcon.md
    supporting_text: CDK5 can form a complex with cyclin B1 and regulate mitotic fidelity, challenging the traditional view that CDK5 has no cell cycle function
- molecular_function:
    id: GO:0050321
    label: tau-protein kinase activity
  description: CDK5 phosphorylates MAPT/tau and other microtubule-associated neuronal substrates, contributing to cytoskeletal regulation and neurodegeneration-relevant tau biology.
  directly_involved_in:
  - id: GO:0000226
    label: microtubule cytoskeleton organization
  locations:
  - id: GO:0043005
    label: neuron projection
  - id: GO:0043025
    label: neuronal cell body
  supported_by:
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: microtubule-binding proteins (e.g. MAPT/TAU, MAP2, MAP1B)
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Proline-directed serine/threonine-protein kinase
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Reaction=L-seryl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-seryl-[protein] + ADP
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Reaction=L-threonyl-[protein] + ATP = O-phospho-L-threonyl-[protein]
  - reference_id: file:human/CDK5/CDK5-uniprot.txt
    supporting_text: Regulates several neuronal development and physiological processes including neuronal survival, migration and differentiation, axonal and neurite growth, synaptogenesis, oligodendrocyte differentiation, synaptic plasticity and neurotransmission
  - reference_id: PMID:21473899
    supporting_text: normally associated with neuronal processes such as migration, cortical layering and synaptic plasticity
proposed_new_terms: []
suggested_questions:
- question: Should human CDK5 be curated directly to basal autophagy/autophagosome maturation based on conserved Acinus regulation, or only to SH3GLB1-dependent regulation of induced macroautophagy?
  experts:
  - GO autophagy editors
  - CDK5 neuronal signaling experts
  - Drosophila autophagy experts
- question: Which CDK5 substrate-binding annotations should be retained as specific MF annotations versus represented as phosphorylation/regulatory process annotations?
  experts:
  - GO molecular-function editors
  - neurobiology curators
suggested_experiments:
- description: Test whether human CDK5 phosphorylates ACIN1 at sites corresponding to Drosophila Acinus S437 and whether this affects basal autophagy flux or autophagosome maturation in neuronal cells.
  hypothesis: The Drosophila Cdk5-Acinus basal-autophagy module is conserved only if human CDK5 directly phosphorylates ACIN1 and changes basal autophagic flux.
  experiment_type: kinase assay/autophagy flux assay
- description: Dissect CDK5-dependent SH3GLB1/endophilin B1 phosphorylation from other CDK5 neuronal substrates using phosphosite-specific rescue mutants in starved neurons.
  hypothesis: CDK5 regulation of macroautophagy is mediated through SH3GLB1 phosphorylation rather than a general CDK5 role in all autophagy steps.
  experiment_type: phosphosite rescue/autophagy imaging
- description: Using the analog-sensitive CDK5 chemical-genetic system from Zheng et al. 2024, map the mitotic CDK5-cyclin B1 phosphoproteome in non-neuronal proliferating cells and compare it to the CDK1-cyclin B1 substrate set, to determine whether CDK5 cell-cycle annotations should be refined to specific mitotic substrates/processes.
  hypothesis: CDK5-cyclin B1 phosphorylates a distinct subset of mitotic substrates that ensures chromosome segregation fidelity, separable from CDK1-cyclin B1 activity.
  experiment_type: analog-sensitive kinase phosphoproteomics