Gasterosteus aculeatus      Atypical      PDHK

※ PDHK family introduction

    PDHK (Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Kinases) belong to atypical kinase group (1). PDHKs are related to histidine kinases, but the phosphorylation site is serine rather than histidine or aspartate. The structure analysis shows that PDHKs contain an N-terminal BCDHK_Adom3 domain and a C-terminal histidine kinase-like domain. The only substrate of PDHK is the E1 subunits of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase (PDH) and the phosphorylation occurs on three serine residues S230, S293 and S300 in human. PDHK is associated with diseases and can be a target for diabetes therapies (2).

Reference
1. Manning, G., Whyte, D.B., Martinez, R., Hunter, T. and Sudarsanam, S. (2002) The protein kinase complement of the human genome. Science, 298, 1912-1934. PMID: 12471243
2. Wikinome annotation: Kinase Family PDHK


There are 6 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (6

No.StatusEKPD IDGene IDGene Name
1
EKS-GAA-00542
ENSGACG00000002603
PDK3
2
EKS-GAA-00541
ENSGACG00000006683
PDK4
3
EKS-GAA-00543
ENSGACG00000003817
PDK2 (1 of 2); PDK2 (2 of 2)
4
EKS-GAA-00546
ENSGACG00000020766
BCKDK
5
EKS-GAA-00545
ENSGACG00000004843
PDK1
6
EKS-GAA-00544
ENSGACG00000005722
PDK2 (1 of 2); PDK2 (2 of 2)