Summary

Phosphatidylinositol 3- and 4-kinase

Some members of this family probably do not have lipid kinase activity and are protein kinases, e.g. P42345 [1].

Literature references

Crespo JL, Hall MN; , Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2002;66:579-591.: Elucidating TOR signaling and rapamycin action: lessons from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PUBMED:12456783
Manning G, Whyte DB, Martinez R, Hunter T, Sudarsanam S; , Science 2002;298:1912-1934.: The protein kinase complement of the human genome. PUBMED:12471243

InterPro entry IPR000403

Protein kinases are a group of enzymes that possess a catalytic subunit which transfers the gamma phosphate from nucleotide triphosphates (often ATP) to one or more amino acid residues in a protein substrate side chain, resulting in a conformational change affecting protein function. The enzymes fall into two broad classes, characterised with respect to substrate specificity: serine/threonine specific and tyrosine specific PUBMED:3291115.

Protein kinase function has been evolutionarily conserved from Escherichia coli to human. Protein kinases play a role in a multitude of cellular processes, including division, proliferation, apoptosis, and differentiation PUBMED:12368087. Phosphorylation usually results in a functional change of the target protein by changing enzyme activity, cellular location, or association with other proteins.

The catalytic subunits of protein kinases are highly conserved, and several structures have been solved PUBMED:15078142, leading to large screens to develop kinase-specific inhibitors for the treatments of a number of diseases PUBMED:15320712.

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3-kinase) () PUBMED:1322797 is an enzyme that phosphorylates phosphoinositides on the 3-hydroxyl group of the inositol ring. The three products of PI3-kinase - PI-3-P, PI-3,4-P(2) and PI-3,4,5-P(3) function as secondary messengers in cell signalling. Phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase (PI4-kinase) () PUBMED:8194527 is an enzyme that acts on phosphatidylinositol (PI) in the first committed step in the production of the secondary messenger inositol-1'4'5'-trisphosphate. This domain is also present in a wide range of protein kinases, involved in diverse cellular functions, such as control of cell growth, regulation of cell cycle progression, a DNA damage checkpoint, recombination, and maintenance of telomere length. Despite significant homology to lipid kinases, no lipid kinase activity has been demonstrated for any of the PIK-related kinases PUBMED:12456783.

The PI3- and PI4-kinases share a well conserved domain at their C-terminal section; this domain seems to be distantly related to the catalytic domain of protein kinases PUBMED:8387896, PUBMED:12151228. The catalytic domain of PI3K has the typical bilobal structure that is seen in other ATP-dependent kinases, with a small N-terminal lobe and a large C-terminal lobe. The core of this domain is the most conserved region of the PI3Ks. The ATP cofactor binds in the crevice formed by the N-and C-terminal lobes, a loop between two strands provides a hydrophobic pocket for binding of the adenine moiety, and a lysine residue interacts with the alpha-phosphate. In contrast to protein kinases, the PI3K loop which interacts with the phosphates of the ATP and is known as the glycine-rich or P-loop, contains no glycine residues. Instead, contact with the ATP -phosphate is maintained through the side chain of a conserved serine residue.

Gene Ontology

Molecular function

phosphotransferase activity, alcohol group as acceptor (GO:0016773)

External database links

PANDIT:	PF00454
PROSITE:	PDOC00710
SCOP:	1qmm
SYSTERS:	PI3_PI4_kinase

Domain organisation

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Alignments

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Alignment:	Seed (44) Full (1752) NCBI (2556) Metagenomics (190)
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Pfam alignments:	Seed (44) Full (1752) NCBI (2556) Metagenomics (190)
Full length sequences	Full-sequences (1752)

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Trees

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Curation and family details

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Curation

Seed source:

Prosite & Pfam-B_6771 (Rlease 7.6)

Previous IDs:

none

Type:

Family

Author:

Sonnhammer ELL, Finn RD

Number in seed:

44

Number in full:

1752

Average length of the domain:

227.00 aa

Average identity of full alignment:

21 %

Average coverage of the sequence by the domain:

14.80 %

HMM information

HMM build commands:

build method: hmmbuild -o /dev/null HMM SEED

search method: hmmsearch -Z 9421015 -E 1000 HMM pfamseq

Model details:

Parameter	Sequence	Domain
Gathering cut-off	23.3	23.3
Trusted cut-off	23.4	23.4
Noise cut-off	23.0	23.2

Model length:

235

Family (HMM) version:

20

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Species distribution

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Interactions

There are 4 interactions for this family. More...

PI3Ka PI3K_C2 Ras PI3K_rbd

Structures

For those sequences which have a structure in the Protein DataBank, we use the mapping between UniProt, PDB and Pfam coordinate systems from the MSD group, to allow us to map Pfam domains onto UniProt sequences and three-dimensional protein structures. The table below shows the structures on which the PI3_PI4_kinase domain has been found.

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Family: PI3_PI4_kinase (PF00454)

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