title: Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase.
abstract: Currently, a central question in biology is how signals from the cell surface modulate intracellular processes. In recent years phosphoinositides have been shown to play a key role in signal transduction. Two phosphoinositide pathways have been characterized, to date. In the canonical phosphoinositide turnover pathway, activation of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C results in the hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate and the generation of two second messengers, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and diacylglycerol. The 3-phosphoinositide pathway involves protein-tyrosine kinase-mediated recruitment and activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, resulting in the production of phosphatidylinositol 3,4-bisphosphate and phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate. The 3-phosphoinositides are not substrates of any known phospholipase C, are not components of the canonical phosphoinositide turnover pathway, and may themselves act as intracellular mediators. The 3-phosphoinositide pathway has been implicated in growth factor-dependent mitogenesis, membrane ruffling and glucose uptake. Furthermore the homology of the yeast vps34 with the mammalian phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase has suggested a role for this pathway in vesicular trafficking. In this review the different mechanisms employed by protein-tyrosine kinases to activate phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and its involvement in the signaling cascade initiated by tyrosine phosphorylation, are examined.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kapeller
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Cantley
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D008954:Models, Biological; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism*; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / Q000737:chemistry / Q000502:physiology*; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000502:physiology*; D015290:Second Messenger Systems; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor); D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases