Inositol_polyphosphate_kinase

Inositol polyphosphate kinase

Inositol polyphosphate kinase

Enzyme family


Inositol polyphosphate kinase (IPK) is a family of enzymes[1] that have a similar 3-dimensional structure. All members of the family catalyze the transfer of phosphate groups from ATP to various inositol phosphates. Members of the family include inositol-polyphosphate multikinases, inositol-hexakisphosphate kinases, inositol-trisphosphate 3-kinases, and inositol-pentakisphosphate 2-kinase, which is more distantly related to the others[2][3]

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The discovery of the IPK family occurred in 1999, when a combination of biochemistry, sequence analysis, and genetics led to the classification of a family of inositol polyphosphate kinases. [4][5] In 2005, the first crystal structures of an IPK family protein were published for ITPKA.[6][7]

Subsequently, structures of the inositol polyphosphate multikinase and various IP6 kinases have expanded our structural understanding for how each enzyme catalyzes its specific reaction(s).


References

  1. "Kinase Family IPK - WikiKinome". kinase.com.
  2. González B, Schell MJ, Letcher AJ, Veprintsev DB, Irvine RF, Williams RL (2004). "Structure of a human inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3-kinase: substrate binding reveals why it is not a phosphoinositide 3-kinase". Mol Cell. 15 (5): 689–701. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2004.08.004. PMID 15350214.

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