Developmentally expressed myosin heavy‐chain kinase possesses a diacylglycerol kinase domain
Open Access
- 1 April 1996
- journal article
- for the-record
- Published by Wiley in Protein Science
- Vol. 5 (4), 782-785
- https://doi.org/10.1002/pro.5560050424
Abstract
In Dictyostelium, an ordered actin and myosin assembly-disassembly process is necessary for proper development, differentiation, and motility (Yumura S, Fukui F, 1985, Nature 314(6007): 194–196; Ravid S, Spudich JA, 1989, J Biol Chem 264(25): 15144–15150), and phosphorylation of myosin heavy chains has been implicated in the myosin assembly-disassembly process (Egelhoff TT, Lee RJ, Spudich JA, 1993, Cell 75(2):363–371). The developmentally expressed 84-kDa myosin heavy-chain kinase (MHCK) from Dictyostelium (Ravid S, Spudich JA, 1992, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89(13):5877–5881) is known to be a member of the protein kinase C (PKC) family. We have observed a rather striking homology between the large central domain of MHCK and the catalytic domain of diacylglycerol kinase (DGK), indicating that MHCK is in fact a gene fusion between a DGK and a PKC, possessing two separate kinase domains. The combined diacylglycerol kinase/myosin heavy-chain kinase (DGK/MHCK) may therefore have dual functionality, possessing the ability to phosphorylate both protein and lipid. We present a hypothesis that DGK/MHCK can antagonize both actin and myosin assembly, as well as other cellular processes, by coordinated down regulation of signaling via myosin heavy-chain kinase activity and diacylglycerol kinase activity.Keywords
Funding Information
- Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Science Foundation
- National Institutes of Health
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