Brassica rapa      Atypical/PIKK


※ PIKK family introduction

    Phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase-related kinases (PIKKs) belong to atypical protein kinase group, which share little similarity of kinase catalytic domain. PIKKs family contains six members which are involved in responding to various stresses, including DNA damage, blocks in DNA replication, availability of nutrients and errors in mRNA splicing. The protein kinase domain of PIKKS, located in C-terminus, is always flanked by two conserved domain, known as FAT and FATC domain, which may interact and participate in kinase regulation (1). ATM, one of family member, is involved in responding to a specific type of DNA damage, such as DNA double strand breaks, and controls the cell-cycle progression by phosphorylates multiple substrates including p53 and Chk2. In addition, ATM also locates in cytoplasmic especially in neuronal or neuron-like cells (2). Ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related protein (ATR) acts as a DNA damage sensor. Activated by DNA lesions including base adducts, crosslinks, DSBs, and compounds that directly promote replication stress such as hydroxyurea and aphidicolin and phosphorylates multiple substrates to control the DNA replication and mitosis (3). mTOR is a serine/threonine protein kinase which is a central regulator of cellular metabolism, growth and survival in response to hormones, growth factors, nutrients, energy and stress signals. mTOR is regulated by dynamic changes in cellular localization (3). Transformation/transcription domain-associated protein (TRRAP) is also structurally related to the PIKK family. TRRAP proteins (Tra1 in budding yeast) are common components of many histone acetyltransferase (HAT) complexes, and mediate a variety of cellular processes by recruiting HAT complexes to chromatin (4).

Reference
1. Lempiainen, H. and Halazonetis, T.D. (2009) Emerging common themes in regulation of PIKKs and PI3Ks. EMBO J, 28, 3067-3073. PMID: 19779456
2. Yang, D.Q., Halaby, M.J., Li, Y., Hibma, J.C. and Burn, P. (2011) Cytoplasmic ATM protein kinase: an emerging therapeutic target for diabetes, cancer and neuronal degeneration. Drug Discov Today, 16, 332-338. PMID: 21315178
3. Lovejoy, C.A. and Cortez, D. (2009) Common mechanisms of PIKK regulation. DNA Repair (Amst), 8, 1004-1008. PMID: 19464237
4. Kanoh, J. and Yanagida, M. (2007) Tel2: a common partner of PIK-related kinases and a link between DNA checkpoint and nutritional response? Genes Cells, 12, 1301-1304. PMID: 18076567


There are 15 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (15

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Brr-0502
Bra011659
M4D5A2
2
iEKPD-Brr-0649
Bra015251
M4DFH8
3
iEKPD-Brr-0806
Bra018828
M4DQN5
4
iEKPD-Brr-0841
Bra019530
M4DSN7
5
iEKPD-Brr-1035
Bra024486
M4E6T1
6
iEKPD-Brr-1141
Bra027152
M4EEE0
7
iEKPD-Brr-1270
Bra030327
M4ENF7
8
iEKPD-Brr-1526
Bra037246
M4F835
9
iEKPD-Brr-1617
Bra039647
M4FEX5
10
iEKPD-Brr-g044
Bra014234
M4DCL8
11
iEKPD-Brr-g002
Bra018786
M4DQJ3
12
iEKPD-Brr-g051
Bra018885
M4DQU2
13
iEKPD-Brr-g052
Bra024264
M4E660
14
iEKPD-Brr-g013
Bra031936
M4ET06
15
iEKPD-Brr-g003
Bra032281
M4ETZ9