title: Identification and cDNA cloning of a novel mammalian C2 domain-containing phosphoinositide 3-kinase, HsC2-PI3K.
abstract: Phosphoinositide (PI) 3-kinases have been shown to have critical roles in signal transduction, cell transformation and intracellular protein trafficking. Reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction methods, using degenerate primers derived from the lipid kinase consensus region, were utilised to identify PI 3-kinases in the normal human breast. Here we report the cDNA cloning of a novel human PI 3-kinase isoform, HsC2-PI3K. This PI 3-kinase is most closely related to the recently described C2 domain-containing family of PI 3-kinases which includes Drosophila PI3K_68D/cpk and murine cpk-m/p170. Sequence analysis suggests that HsC2-PI3K is a second distinct mammalian member of the C2 domain-containing PI 3-kinase family. Northern blot analysis of human tissues indicates that HsC2-PI3K is widely expressed. Fluorescence in situ hybridisation has mapped HsC2-PI3K to chromosome 1q32.
authors.affiliation: Signal Transduction Team, Institute of Cancer Research, Haddow Laboratories, Sutton, Surrey, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Weber-Hall
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Shipley
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Fry
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001940:Breast / Q000201:enzymology; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary / Q000737:chemistry; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor) / Q000235:genetics*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014018:Tissue Distribution
chemical_list: D018076:DNA, Complementary; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D017853:Phosphotransferases (Alcohol Group Acceptor)