Loxodonta africana      Atypical/PDHK


※ PDHK family introduction

    PDHK (Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinases) belong to atypical kinase group (1). PDHKs are related to histidine kinases, but the phosphorylation site is serine rather than histidine or aspartate. The structure analysis shows that PDHKs contain an N-terminal BCDHK_Adom3 domain and a C-terminal histidine kinase-like domain. The only substrate of PDHK is the E1 subunits of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (PDH) and the phosphorylation occurs on three serine residues S230, S293 and S300 in human. PDHK is associated with diseases and can be a target for diabetes therapies (2).

Reference
1. Manning, G., Whyte, D.B., Martinez, R., Hunter, T. and Sudarsanam, S. (2002) The protein kinase complement of the human genome. Science, 298, 1912-1934. PMID: 12471243
2. Wikinome annotation: Kinase Family PDHK


There are 5 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (5

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Loa-0405
ENSLAFG00000022365.2
G3TN47
BCKDK
2
iEKPD-Loa-0088
ENSLAFG00000004732.4
G3SUU5
PDK1
3
iEKPD-Loa-0466
ENSLAFG00000031711.1
G3U0S0
PDK2
4
iEKPD-Loa-0398
ENSLAFG00000021874.2
G3TPF0
PDK3
5
iEKPD-Loa-0231
ENSLAFG00000011165.3
G3T703
PDK4