title: Cloning of a human phosphoinositide 3-kinase with a C2 domain that displays reduced sensitivity to the inhibitor wortmannin.
abstract: The generation of phosphatidylinositide 3-phosphates has been observed in a variety of cellular responses. The enzymes that mediate synthesis are the phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3-Ks) that form a family of structurally diverse enzymes with distinct substrate specificities. In this paper, we describe the cloning of a novel human PI3-K, namely PI3-K-C2 alpha, which contains a C-terminal C2 domain. This enzyme can be assigned to the class II PI3-Ks, which was defined by characterization of the Drosophila 68D enzyme and includes the recently described murine enzymes m-cpk and p170. Despite the overall similarity in the amino acid sequence of the murine and human enzymes, which suggests that they are encoded by closely related genes, these molecules show marked sequence heterogeneity at their N-termini. Biochemical analysis of recombinant PI3-K-C2 alpha demonstrates a restricted lipid substrate specificity. As reported for other members of this class, the enzyme only phosphorylates PtdIns and PtdIns4P when the lipids are presented alone. However, when lipids were presented together with phosphatidylserine acting as a carrier, phosphorylation of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was also observed. The catalytic activity of PI3-K-C2 alpha is refractory to concentrations of wortmannin and LY294002 which inhibit the PI3-K activity of other family members. The comparative insensitivity of PI3-K-C2 alpha to these inhibitors suggests that their use should be reevaluated in the study of PI3-Ks.
authors.affiliation: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London, U.K.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Domin
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pages
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Volinia
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Rittenhouse
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Zvelebil
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Stein
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Waterfield
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000730:Androstadienes / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009928:Organ Specificity / Q000235:genetics; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D000081082:Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors; D010766:Phosphorylation; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D000077191:Wortmannin
chemical_list: D000730:Androstadienes; D019869:Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases; D000081082:Phosphoinositide-3 Kinase Inhibitors; D000077191:Wortmannin