Protein kinase CK2: structure, regulation and role in cellular decisions of life and death

DW Litchfield - Biochemical Journal, 2003 - portlandpress.com
Protein kinase CK2 ('casein kinase II') has traditionally been classified as a messenger-
independent protein serine/threonine kinase that is typically found in tetrameric complexes …

Order or chaos? An evaluation of the regulation of protein kinase CK2

MEK Olsten, DW Litchfield - Biochemistry and cell biology, 2004 - cdnsciencepub.com
CK2 is a highly conserved, ubiquitously expressed protein serine/threonine kinase present
in all eukaryotes. Circumscribed as having a vast array of substrates located in a number of …

HP1-β mobilization promotes chromatin changes that initiate the DNA damage response

N Ayoub, AD Jeyasekharan, JA Bernal… - Nature, 2008 - nature.com
Minutes after DNA damage, the variant histone H2AX is phosphorylated by protein kinases
of the phosphoinositide kinase family, including ATM, ATR or DNA-PK. Phosphorylated (γ) …

[HTML][HTML] The multiple personalities of the regulatory subunit of protein kinase CK2: CK2 dependent and CK2 independent roles reveal a secret identity for CK2β

AC Bibby, DW Litchfield - International journal of biological …, 2005 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Protein kinase CK2 (formerly casein kinase II), an enzyme that participates in a wide variety
of cellular processes, has traditionally been classified as a stable tetrameric complex …

Live-cell fluorescence imaging reveals the dynamics of protein kinase CK2 individual subunits

O Filhol, A Nueda, V Martel… - … and cellular biology, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Protein kinase CK2 is a multifunctional enzyme which has long been described as a stable
heterotetrameric complex resulting from the association of two catalytic (α or α′) and two …

Protein kinase CK2 in health and disease: Protein kinase CK2: from structures to insights

K Niefind, J Raaf, OG Issinger - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2009 - Springer
Within the last decade, 40 crystal structures corresponding to protein kinase CK2 (former
name 'casein kinase 2'), to its catalytic subunit CK2α and to its regulatory subunit CK2β were …

Interactions between protein kinase CK2 and Pin1: Evidence for phosphorylation-dependent interactions

MM Messenger, RB Saulnier, AD Gilchrist… - Journal of Biological …, 2002 - ASBMB
The peptidyl-prolyl isomerase Pin1 interacts in a phosphorylation-dependent manner with
several proteins involved in cell cycle events. In this study, we demonstrate that Pin1 …

Structure-based design of small peptide inhibitors of protein kinase CK2 subunit interaction

B Laudet, C Barette, V Dulery, O Renaudet… - Biochemical …, 2007 - portlandpress.com
X-ray crystallography studies, as well as live-cell fluorescent imaging, have recently
challenged the traditional view of protein kinase CK2. Unbalanced expression of catalytic …

An unbiased evaluation of CK2 inhibitors by chemoproteomics: characterization of inhibitor effects on CK2 and identification of novel inhibitor targets

JS Duncan, L Gyenis, J Lenehan, M Bretner… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2008 - ASBMB
Recently protein kinases have emerged as some of the most promising drug targets; and
therefore, pharmaceutical strategies have been developed to inhibit kinases in the treatment …

Phosphorylation regulates the stability of the regulatory CK2β subunit

C Zhang, G Vilk, DA Canton, DW Litchfield - Oncogene, 2002 - nature.com
Protein kinase CK2 is a protein serine/threonine kinase that exhibits elevated expression in
a number of cancers and displays oncogenic activity in mice. The regulatory CK2β subunit …