title: Protein kinases from Dictyostelium discoideum with similarity to LIM kinases.
abstract: We cloned a protein kinase (DdKinY) from Dictyostelium discoideum by low stringency hybridization using the catalytic domain from DdKinX [B.W. Wetterauer et al., Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1265 (1995) 97-101] as a probe. Both kinases have low sequence similarity to other protein kinases in the databases. However, phylogenetic analysis showed that both kinases cluster with vertebrate LIM kinases due to homology within the catalytic domain.
authors.affiliation: Zoologisches Institut der LMU, Luisenstrasse 14, 80333, Munich, Germany. wetterau@zi.biologie.uni-muenchen.de
authors.forename: B W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Wetterauer
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D004023:Dictyostelium / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000254:growth & development; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan; D011494:Protein Kinases