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. 1996 Apr;5(4):782–785. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560050424

Developmentally expressed myosin heavy-chain kinase possesses a diacylglycerol kinase domain.

C D Thanos 1, J U Bowie 1
PMCID: PMC2143377  PMID: 8845769

Abstract

In Dictyostelium, an ordered actin and myosin assembly-disassembly process is necessary for proper development, differentiation, and motility (Yumura S, Fukui F, 1985, Nature 314(6007): 194-196; Ravid S, Spudich JA, 1989, J Biol Chem 264(25): 15144-15150), and phosphorylation of myosin heavy chains has been implicated in the myosin assembly-disassembly process (Egelhoff TT, Lee RJ, Spudich JA, 1993, Cell 75(2):363-371). The developmentally expressed 84-kDa myosin heavy-chain kinase (MHCK) from Dictyostelium (Ravid S, Spudich JA, 1992, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 89(13):5877-5881) is known to be a member of the protein kinase C (PKC) family. We have observed a rather striking homology between the large central domain of MHCK and the catalytic domain of diacylglycerol kinase (DGK), indicating that MHCK is in fact a gene fusion between a DGK and a PKC, possessing two separate kinase domains. The combined diacylglycerol kinase/myosin heavy-chain kinase (DGK/MHCK) may therefore have dual functionality, possessing the ability to phosphorylate both protein and lipid. We present a hypothesis that DGK/MHCK can antagonize both actin and myosin assembly, as well as other cellular processes, by coordinated down regulation of signaling via myosin heavy-chain kinase activity and diacylglycerol kinase activity.

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