Drosophila melanogaster      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 10 genes.  Reviewed (5 or Unreviewed (5

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Drm-0028
FBgn0004367
Q9VXG8
mei-41
2
iEKPD-Drm-0178
FBgn0053554
Q8I8U7
Nipped-A
3
iEKPD-Drm-0206
FBgn0263968
Q70PP2
nonC
4
iEKPD-Drm-0164
FBgn0045035
Q5EAK6
tefu
5
iEKPD-Drm-0073
FBgn0021796
Q9VK45
Tor
6
iEKPD-Drm-g001
FBgn0004373
Q9W0R8
fwd
7
iEKPD-Drm-g003
FBgn0015277
Q9W1M7
Pi3K59F
8
iEKPD-Drm-g007
FBgn0015278
Q7K3H0
Pi3K68D
9
iEKPD-Drm-g002
FBgn0015279
P91634
Pi3K92E
10
iEKPD-Drm-g006
FBgn0267350
M9PDM4
PI4KIIIalpha