cAMP-dependent protein kinase: a framework for a diverse family of enzymes.
cAMP-dependent protein kinase: a framework for a diverse family of enzymes.
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cAMP 依赖性蛋白激酶:多种酶家族的框架。
DOI:
10.1101/sqb.1988.053.01.018
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1988
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Dospmann,W
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作者:
Taylor,SS;Buechler,JA;Slice,LW;Knighton,DK;Durgerian,S;Ringheim,GE;Neitzel,JJ;Yonemoto,WM;Sowadski,JM;Dospmann,W
One of the first protein kinases to be discovered was the enzyme that is activated in response to cAMP, cAMP-dependent protein kinase (Walsh et al. 1968). In the intervening decades, many diverse kinases have been identified (Hanks et al. 1988). They include kinases that transfer phosphate to serine and threonine as well as those transferring phosphate to tyrosine. Some kinases are activated in response to second messengers, such as cAMP, Ca t~, and diacylglycerol, whereas others are activated by primary signals such as growth factors. The protein kinase family includes transforming proteins coded by oncogenes as well as growth factor receptors (for reviews, see Boyer and Krebs 1986).In many ways, cAMP-dependent protein kinase serves as a prototype for the entire kinase family; however, its mechanism of activation is unusual and perhaps unique among the protein kinases. In the absence of cAMP, the enzyme is an inactive tetramer containing two regulatory (R) and two catalytic (C) subunits. With the exception of the transforming oncogenic kinases, the protein kinases are characteristically tightly regulated enzymes and are maintained in an inactive form in the absence of activating ligands, cAMP-dependent protein kinase is activated when intracellular cAMP levels are elevated. The major receptor for cAMP in eukaryotic cells is the regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase. Binding of cAMP induces conformational changes in the regulatory subunit that stabilize a structure having a lowered affinity for the catalytic subunit, thus promoting dissociation of the hoioenzyme complex. The dissociated catalytic subunit (M r= 38,900) is catalytically active, and its regulatory role in modulating the activity of many substrate proteins has been well documented (Krebs and Beavo 1979; Bramson et al. 1984). Despite the diversity seen in the overall protein kinase family, many features of structure and function are shared. In particular, each protein kinase has a conserved catalytic core, indicating that these enzymes have evolved in part from a common origin. In this regard, cAMP-dependent protein kinase is not only one of the smallest protein kinases, but also one of the simplest, for the major regulatory elements are part of a distinct subunit that easily dissociates. The remaining catalytic subunit shares extensive sequence similarities with the catalytic region of every kinase, and residues