Protein / target
Cyclin-dependent kinase 6
Protein at a glance
Biological role
Cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase
Strongest disease association
Behcet's Syndrome
Therapeutic position
Established drug target
Research activity
Emerging research
Derived from structured UniProt, Open Targets and literature data on this page.
Protein profile
Canonical identity and biological annotation from UniProt.
Function overview
Serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in the control of the cell cycle and differentiation; promotes G1/S transition.
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Serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in the control of the cell cycle and differentiation; promotes G1/S transition. Phosphorylates pRB/RB1 and NPM1. Interacts with D-type G1 cyclins during interphase at G1 to form a pRB/RB1 kinase and controls the entrance into the cell cycle. Involved in initiation and maintenance of cell cycle exit during cell differentiation; prevents cell proliferation and negatively regulates cell differentiation, but is required for the proliferation of specific cell types (e.g. erythroid and hematopoietic cells). Essential for cell proliferation within the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus and the subventricular zone of the lateral ventricles. Required during thymocyte development. Promotes the production of newborn neurons, probably by modulating G1 length. Promotes, at least in astrocytes, changes in patterns of gene expression, changes in the actin cytoskeleton including loss of stress fibers, and enhanced motility during cell differentiation. Prevents myeloid differentiation by interfering with RUNX1 and reducing its transcription transactivation activity, but promotes proliferation of normal myeloid progenitors. Delays senescence. Promotes the proliferation of beta-cells in pancreatic islets of Langerhans. May play a role in the centrosome organization during the cell cycle phases (PubMed:23918663)
Subcellular location
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Domains & features
Gene Ontology
- Ccentrosome
- Ccyclin D2-CDK6 complex
- Ccyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex
- Ccytoplasm
- Ccytosol
- Cnucleoplasm
- Cnucleus
- Cruffle
- FATP binding
- Fcyclin binding
- Fcyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
- FFBXO family protein binding
Biological roles
What this protein does, drawn together from its UniProt function, Gene Ontology terms and Reactome pathways.
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Cell-cycle regulation
- ·Serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in the control of the cell cycle and differenti…
- ·G1/S transition of mitotic cell cycle
- ·G2/M transition of mitotic cell cycle
Oncogenic signalling
- ·Oncogene Induced Senescence
- ·Evasion of Oncogene Induced Senescence Due to Defective p16INK4A binding to CDK4 and CDK6
Cell proliferation & survival
- ·negative regulation of cell population proliferation
Cell migration
- ·regulation of cell motility
Kinase signalling
- ·Serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in the control of the cell cycle and differenti…
- ·cyclin-dependent protein kinase holoenzyme complex
- ·cyclin-dependent protein serine/threonine kinase activity
- ·protein serine kinase activity
Transcriptional regulation
- ·Serine/threonine-protein kinase involved in the control of the cell cycle and differenti…
- ·regulation of gene expression
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Concepts derived from UniProt GO Reactome — each badge above shows which sources supported that role.
Interaction neighbourhood
Proteins with the strongest functional or physical association. Node size and line weight reflect STRING confidence; hover or select a partner to inspect one association.
Functional and physical associations from STRING v12.0. Only associations with this protein are drawn — partner-to-partner links are not part of this evidence.
Approved medicines with mapped indications
Approved therapies targeting this protein, grouped by what they are approved to treat — the disease-first view of the medicines below. Relationships come from the canonical approved-indication graph (ChEMBL phase-4), the same source as the drug cards.
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Broad umbrella indications (e.g. “Neoplasms”). Shown here because every medicine also appears under a more specific disease above — kept for completeness, de-emphasised for clarity.
5 medicines meet Open Targets' target-level approved-medicine definition; the 2 shown here are those on this page with a canonical approved disease indication in the graph. Approved indications from ChEMBL (phase-4), via the canonical drug→disease graph.
Drugs targeting this protein
How approved and investigational drugs engage this protein — mechanism and action type, direct vs complex targeting, and how broadly each acts across other targets. A drug-first view (the section above groups the approved ones disease-first); direct binders with few recorded targets are listed first.
Cyclin-dependent kinase 6 inhibitor
Indicated for Breast Neoplasms, Neoplasms
Cyclin-dependent kinase 6 inhibitor
ChEMBL mechanism, action type, target identity and approved indications. Open Targets clinical status.
Translational evidence
Why this target matters therapeutically, strongest evidence first. Disease associations are gene-level (via the gene that encodes this protein) and open into the full confidence synthesis; the development universe, tractability and safety annotations are target-level, from Open Targets.
Strongest disease associations · via encoding gene CDK6
Gene-level evidence surfaced through the gene CDK6that encodes this protein — not a direct protein–disease relationship. Ranked by Forefront's causal-directness weighting, so genetically- and clinically-evidenced diseases lead over ones that merely share the literature.
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The evidence agreement range shows how closely the independent evidence families agree — it is not a statistical confidence interval, and nothing here is fitted to outcome data. Derived from Open Targets evidence types under Forefront weighting; the per-type scores above show the calculation.
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Drug development
12 compounds recorded · 5 approved · 7 in clinical development
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Open Targets known-drugs universe. Drug name and highest clinical stage only — the disease relationship is NOT read from this slice (it carries trial-context noise); approved indications come from the canonical graph above.
Tractability
Small molecules — Strong
Protein degraders — Emerging
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Raw Open Targets tractability assessment buckets, by modality.
Safety-related annotations
Terms indexed against this target in Open Targets' safety data, with their datasource. These are annotations, not causal claims: the direction of effect (whether activation or inhibition is implicated), species and evidence strength are not captured here, so an entry does not mean that modulating this target is known to cause that condition.
Clinical trials
Trials of drugs that target this protein — reached indirectly through those drugs, so a trial listed here studies the drug, not the protein. Ranked by active status, then clinical phase and recency, and spread across the targeting drugs.
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ClinicalTrials.gov via the drug-target graph.
What's happening now
Recent therapeutic activity around this target — regulatory actions, clinical trials and safety signals for 3 drugs that target this protein, plus publications where such a drug is a genuine subject. Every item is reached indirectly through the drug, not the protein itself; incidental mentions (a paper that merely measures a drug) and press items are excluded.
- Trial status changed
Phase I Study of the Pan-ERBB Inhibitor Neratinib Given in Combination With Everolimus, Palbociclib, or Trametinib in Advanced Cancer Subjects With EGFR Mutation/Amplification, HER2 Mutation/Amplification, or HER3/4 Mutation or KRAS Mutation
- Trial status changed
A Phase 1, Open-Label, Multicenter Study of INCB123667 as Monotherapy and in Combination With Anticancer Therapies in Participants With Selected Advanced Solid Tumors
- Indication expanded
Indication expansion: ABEMACICLIB (NDA208716)
- Trial status changed
PIKture-01: First-in-Human Study of the PI3KαH1047R Mutant-Selective Inhibitor OKI-219 as Monotherapy in Participants With Advanced Solid Tumors and as Part of Combination Therapy in Participants With Advanced Breast Cancer
- Indication expanded
Indication expansion: RIBOCICLIB (NDA209092)
- Indication expanded
Indication expansion: PALBOCICLIB (NDA207103)
- Indication expanded
Indication expansion: PALBOCICLIB (NDA212436)
- Regulatory approval
Approval: Palbociclib Viatris (EMA)
- New publicationAbemaciclib plus a nonsteroidal aromatase inhibitor as initial therapy for HR+, HER2- advanced breast cancer: final overall survival results of MONARCH 3.
- New publicationEfficacy, safety, and predictive model of Palbociclib in the treatment of HR-positive and HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer.
- New publicationOpen-label, phase II, multicenter study of lasofoxifene plus abemaciclib for treating women with metastatic ER+/HER2- breast cancer and an ESR1 mutation after disease progression on prior therapies: ELAINE 2.
- New publicationEfficacy, safety, and biomarker analysis of nivolumab in combination with abemaciclib plus endocrine therapy in patients with HR-positive HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer: a phase II study (WJOG11418B NEWFLAME trial).
Objective event titles are shown unmodified; the event kind and significance line are derived from structured fields. Forefront AttentionEvent stream aggregating Europe PMC Regulatory filings ClinicalTrials.gov.
Research activity
Papers linked directly to this protein. This is the protein's own literature — descriptor-derived papers are kept separate below.
Most cited
Recent
Europe PMC papers linked directly to this protein.
Related family literature
Papers about “Cyclin-Dependent Kinases” — a broader family this protein belongs to. Shown as context; not counted as papers specifically about this protein.
via Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
via Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
via Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
via Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
via Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
Europe PMC literature, reached through curated HGNC family membership. Membership is a taxonomic relationship — it does not imply this protein participates in every mechanism these papers discuss.