Phosphoinositide 3-kinase: the protein kinase that time forgot

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 330-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
L.C. Foukas ◽  
P.R. Shepherd

Class I phosphoinositide 3-kinases were originally characterized as lipid kinases, although more than 10 years ago they were also found to phosphorylate protein serine residues. However, while there is a vast amount of data on the function of this lipid kinase activity, relatively little is known about the function of the protein kinase activity. We discuss the evidence that suggests that the protein kinase activity of phosphoinositide 3-kinases mediates important signalling functions in cells.

2000 ◽  
Vol 350 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. BEETON ◽  
Edwin M. CHANCE ◽  
Lazaros C. FOUKAS ◽  
Peter R. SHEPHERD

Growth factors regulate a wide range of cellular processes via activation of the class-Ia phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI 3-kinases). We directly compared kinetic properties of lipid- and protein-kinase activities of the widely expressed p110α and p110β isoforms. The lipid-kinase activity did not display Michaelis–Menten kinetics but modelling the kinetic data demonstrated that p110α has a higher Vmax and a 25-fold higher Km for PtdIns than p110β. A similar situation occurs with PtdIns(4,5)P2, because at low concentration of PtdIns(4,5)P2 p110β is a better PtdIns(4,5)P2 kinase than p110α, although this is reversed at high concentrations. These differences suggest different functional roles and we hypothesize that p110β functions better in areas of membranes containing low levels of substrate whereas p110α would work best in areas of high substrate density such as membrane lipid rafts. We also compared protein-kinase activities. We found that p110β phosphorylated p85 to a lower degree than did p110α. We used a novel peptide-based assay to compare the kinetics of the protein-kinase activities of p110α and p110β. These studies revealed that, like the lipid-kinase activity, the protein-kinase activity of p110α has a higher Km (550µM) than p110β (Km 8µM). Similarly, the relative Vmax towards peptide substrate of p110α was three times higher than that of p110β. This implies differences in the rates of regulatory autophosphorylation in vivo, which are likely to mean differential regulation of the lipid-kinase activities of p110α and p110β in vivo.


PLoS Biology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. e1001515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Thomas ◽  
Jason A. Powell ◽  
Benjamin D. Green ◽  
Emma F. Barry ◽  
Yuefang Ma ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (5) ◽  
pp. 2265-2277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Kinchington ◽  
Karen Fite ◽  
Stephanie E. Turse

ABSTRACT IE62, the major transcriptional activator protein encoded by varicella-zoster virus (VZV), locates to the nucleus when expressed in transfected cells. We show here that cytoplasmic forms of IE62 accumulate in transfected and VZV-infected cells as the result of the protein kinase activity associated with VZV open reading frame 66 (ORF66). Expression of the ORF66 protein kinase but not the VZV ORF47 protein kinase impaired the ability of coexpressed IE62 to transactivate promoter-reporter constructs. IE62 that was coexpressed with the ORF66 protein accumulated predominantly in the cytoplasm, whereas the normal nuclear localization of other proteins was not affected by the ORF66 protein. In cells infected with VZV, IE62 accumulated in the cytoplasm at late times of infection, whereas in cells infected with a VZV recombinant unable to express ORF66 protein (ROka66S), IE62 was completely nuclear. Point mutations introduced into the predicted serine/threonine catalytic domain and ATP binding domain of ORF66 abrogated its ability to influence IE62 nuclear localization, indicating that the protein kinase activity was required. The region of IE62 that was targeted by ORF66 was mapped to amino acids 602 to 733. IE62 peptides containing this region were specifically phosphorylated in cells coexpressing the ORF66 protein kinase and in cells infected with wild-type VZV but were not phosphorylated in cells infected with ROka66S. We conclude that the ORF66 protein kinase phosphorylates IE62 to induce its cytoplasmic accumulation, most likely by inhibiting IE62 nuclear import.


2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. J. Dickson ◽  
Woo-Jeong Lee ◽  
Peter R. Shepherd ◽  
Christina M. Buchanan

NTT (N-terminal tags) on the catalytic (p110) sub-unit of PI 3-K (phosphoinositol 3-kinase) have previously been shown to increase cell signalling and oncogenic transformation. Here we test the impact of an NT (N-terminal) His-tag on in vitro lipid and protein kinase activity of all class-1 PI 3-K isoforms and two representative oncogenic mutant forms (E545K and H1047R), in order to elucidate the mechanisms behind this elevated signalling and transformation observed in vivo. Our results show that an NT His-tag has no impact on lipid kinase activity as measured by enzyme titration, kinetics and inhibitor susceptibility. Conversely, the NT His-tag did result in a differential effect on protein kinase activity, further potentiating the elevated protein kinase activity of both the helical domain and catalytic domain oncogenic mutants with relation to p110 phosphorylation. All other isoforms also showed elevated p110 phosphorylation (although not statistically significant). We conclude that the previously reported increase in cell signalling and oncogenic-like transformation in response to p110 NTT is not mediated via an increase in the lipid kinase activity of PI 3-K, but may be mediated by increased p110 autophosphorylation and/or other, as yet unidentified, intracellular protein/protein interactions. We further observe that tagged recombinant protein is suitable for use in in vitro lipid kinase screens to identify PI 3-K inhibitors; however, we recommend that in vivo (including intracellular) experiments and investigations into the protein kinase activity of PI 3-K should be conducted with untagged constructs.


2009 ◽  
Vol 419 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Lehmann ◽  
Jörg P. Müller ◽  
Bernhard Schlott ◽  
Philipp Skroblin ◽  
Dagmar Barz ◽  
...  

Neutrophils release reactive oxygen species (ROS) as part of the innate inflammatory immune response. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase γ (PI3Kγ), which is induced by the bacterial peptide N-formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLP), has been identified as an essential intracellular mediator of ROS production. However, the complex signalling reactions that link PI3Kγ with ROS synthesis by NADPH oxidase have not yet been described in detail. We found that activation of neutrophils by fMLP triggers the association of PI3Kγ with protein kinase Cα (PKCα). Specific inhibition of PI3Kγ suppresses fMLP-mediated activation of PKCα activity and ROS production, suggesting that the protein kinase activity of PI3Kγ is involved. Our data suggest that the direct interaction of PI3Kγ with PKCα forms a discrete regulatory module of fMLP-dependent ROS production in neutrophils.


2005 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 785-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sathyamangla V. Naga Prasad ◽  
Arundathi Jayatilleke ◽  
Aasakiran Madamanchi ◽  
Howard A. Rockman

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