Recombinant rabbit muscle casein kinase I alpha is inhibited by heparin and activated by polylysine. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • The casein kinase I (CKI) family consists of widely distributed monomeric Ser/Thr protein kinases that have a preference for acidic substrates. Four mammalian isoforms are known. A full length cDNA encoding the CKI alpha isoform was cloned from a rabbit skeletal muscle cDNA library and was utilized to construct a bacterial expression vector. Active CKI alpha was expressed in Escherichia coli as a polypeptide of Mr 36,000. The protein kinase phosphorylated casein, phosvitin and a specific peptide substrate (D4). The enzyme was inhibited by the isoquinolinesulfonamide CKI-7, half-maximally at 70 microM. Heparin inhibited phosphorylation of the D4 peptide or phosvitin by CKI alpha. Polylysine activated when the D4 peptide was the substrate but had no effect on phosvitin phosphorylation. It is becoming clear that the individual CKI isoforms have different kinetic properties and hence could have quite distinct cellular functions.

publication date

  • December 15, 1992

Research

keywords

  • Heparin
  • Muscles
  • Polylysine
  • Protein Kinases

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0027064721

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/0006-291x(92)92295-9

PubMed ID

  • 1472067

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 189

issue

  • 2