Gorilla gorilla      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 5 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (5

No.StatusEKPD IDGene IDGene Name
1
EKS-GOG-00442
ENSGGOG00000013592
BCKDK
2
EKS-GOG-00439
ENSGGOG00000002467
PDK4
3
EKS-GOG-00440
ENSGGOG00000006157
PDK3
4
EKS-GOG-00441
ENSGGOG00000015583
PDK2
5
EKS-GOG-00438
ENSGGOG00000004123
PDK1