title: The crystal structure of choline kinase reveals a eukaryotic protein kinase fold.
abstract: Choline kinase catalyzes the ATP-dependent phosphorylation of choline, the first committed step in the CDP-choline pathway for the biosynthesis of phosphatidylcholine. The 2.0 A crystal structure of a choline kinase from C. elegans (CKA-2) reveals that the enzyme is a homodimeric protein with each monomer organized into a two-domain fold. The structure is remarkably similar to those of protein kinases and aminoglycoside phosphotransferases, despite no significant similarity in amino acid sequence. Comparisons to the structures of other kinases suggest that ATP binds to CKA-2 in a pocket formed by highly conserved and catalytically important residues. In addition, a choline binding site is proposed to be near the ATP binding pocket and formed by several structurally flexible loops.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan Medical School, 1301 East Catherine Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peisach
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gee
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kent
authors.forename: Zhaohui
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000378:metabolism; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001665:Binding Sites; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000201:enzymology; D002118:Calcium / Q000378:metabolism; D002797:Choline Kinase / Q000737:chemistry*; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D019281:Dimerization; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011485:Protein Binding; D017510:Protein Folding; D020836:Protein Structure, Quaternary; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D016415:Sequence Alignment
chemical_list: D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D002797:Choline Kinase; D002118:Calcium