Protein kinase C: perfectly balanced

AC Newton - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes belong to a family of Ser/Thr kinases whose activity is
governed by reversible release of an autoinhibitory pseudosubstrate. For conventional and …

Tribbles in the 21st century: the evolving roles of tribbles pseudokinases in biology and disease

PA Eyers, K Keeshan, N Kannan - Trends in cell biology, 2017 - cell.com
The Tribbles (TRIB) pseudokinases control multiple aspects of eukaryotic cell biology and
evolved unique features distinguishing them from all other protein kinases. The atypical …

The Dark Kinase Knowledgebase: an online compendium of knowledge and experimental results of understudied kinases

ME Berginski, N Moret, C Liu, D Goldfarb… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Kinases form the backbone of numerous cell signaling pathways, with their dysfunction
similarly implicated in multiple pathologies. Further facilitated by their druggability, kinases …

mTORC2 controls the activity of PKC and Akt by phosphorylating a conserved TOR interaction motif

TR Baffi, G Lordén, JM Wozniak, A Feichtner… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The complex mTORC2 is accepted to be the kinase that controls the phosphorylation of the
hydrophobic motif, a key regulatory switch for AGC kinases, although whether mTOR directly …

New perspectives, opportunities, and challenges in exploring the human protein kinome

LJ Wilson, A Linley, DE Hammond, FE Hood… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
The human protein kinome comprises 535 proteins that, with the exception of approximately
50 pseudokinases, control intracellular signaling networks by catalyzing the phosphorylation …

Aurora A regulation by reversible cysteine oxidation reveals evolutionarily conserved redox control of Ser/Thr protein kinase activity

DP Byrne, S Shrestha, M Galler, M Cao, LA Daly… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are physiological mediators of cellular signaling and play
potentially damaging roles in human diseases. In this study, we found that the catalytic …

Reversing the paradigm: protein kinase C as a tumor suppressor

AC Newton, J Brognard - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2017 - cell.com
The discovery in the 1980s that protein kinase C (PKC) is a receptor for the tumor-promoting
phorbol esters fueled the dogma that PKC is an oncoprotein. Yet 30+ years of clinical trials …

Protein kinase C as a tumor suppressor

AC Newton - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Protein kinase C (PKC) has historically been considered an oncoprotein. This stems in large
part from the discovery in the early 1980s that PKC is directly activated by tumor-promoting …

Tracing the origin and evolution of pseudokinases across the tree of life

A Kwon, S Scott, R Taujale, W Yeung, KJ Kochut… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Protein phosphorylation by eukaryotic protein kinases (ePKs) is a fundamental mechanism
of cell signaling in all organisms. In model vertebrates,~ 10% of ePKs are classified as …

Pseudokinases: update on their functions and evaluation as new drug targets

DP Byrne, DM Foulkes, PA Eyers - Future medicinal chemistry, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
The pseudokinase complement of the human kinase superfamily consists of approximately
60 signaling proteins, which lacks one or more of the amino acids typically required to …