title: Structure of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase. Novel folding pattern for a serine protein kinase.
abstract: The structure of mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase isozyme 2 is of interest because it represents a family of serine-specific protein kinases that lack sequence similarity with all other eukaryotic protein kinases. Similarity exists instead with key motifs of prokaryotic histidine protein kinases and a family of eukaryotic ATPases. The 2.5-A crystal structure reported here reveals that pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase isozyme 2 has two domains of about the same size. The N-terminal half is dominated by a bundle of four amphipathic alpha-helices, whereas the C-terminal half is folded into an alpha/beta sandwich that contains the nucleotide-binding site. Analysis of the structure reveals this C-terminal domain to be very similar to the nucleotide-binding domain of bacterial histidine kinases, but the catalytic mechanism appears similar to that of the eukaryotic serine kinases and ATPases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202-5122, USA.
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Steussy
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Popov
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Bowker-Kinley
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Sloan
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hamilton
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D002384:Catalysis; D019281:Dimerization; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D000081382:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Acetyl-Transferring Kinase; D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: C000631436:Pdk2 protein, rat; D000081382:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Acetyl-Transferring Kinase; D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D011494:Protein Kinases; D017346:Protein Serine-Threonine Kinases