Protein kinase C: perfectly balanced

AC Newton - Critical reviews in biochemistry and molecular …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes belong to a family of Ser/Thr kinases whose activity is
governed by reversible release of an autoinhibitory pseudosubstrate. For conventional and …

Dynamics-driven allostery in protein kinases

AP Kornev, SS Taylor - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Protein kinases have very dynamic structures and their functionality strongly depends on
their dynamic state. Active kinases reveal a dynamic pattern with residues clustering into …

mTORC2 controls the activity of PKC and Akt by phosphorylating a conserved TOR interaction motif

TR Baffi, G Lordén, JM Wozniak, A Feichtner… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The complex mTORC2 is accepted to be the kinase that controls the phosphorylation of the
hydrophobic motif, a key regulatory switch for AGC kinases, although whether mTOR directly …

Ca2+ releases E‐Syt1 autoinhibition to couple ER‐plasma membrane tethering with lipid transport

X Bian, Y Saheki, P De Camilli - The EMBO journal, 2018 - embopress.org
The extended synaptotagmins (E‐Syts) are endoplasmic reticulum (ER) proteins that bind
the plasma membrane (PM) via C2 domains and transport lipids between them via SMP …

AGC kinases, mechanisms of regulation‎ and innovative drug development

AE Leroux, JO Schulze, RM Biondi - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
The group of AGC kinases consists of 63 evolutionarily related serine/threonine protein
kinases comprising PDK1, PKB/Akt, SGK, PKC, PRK/PKN, MSK, RSK, S6K, PKA, PKG …

Equivocal, explicit and emergent actions of PKC isoforms in cancer

PJ Parker, SJ Brown, V Calleja, P Chakravarty… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The maturing mutational landscape of cancer genomes, the development and application of
clinical interventions and evolving insights into tumour-associated functions reveal …

Reversing the paradigm: protein kinase C as a tumor suppressor

AC Newton, J Brognard - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2017 - cell.com
The discovery in the 1980s that protein kinase C (PKC) is a receptor for the tumor-promoting
phorbol esters fueled the dogma that PKC is an oncoprotein. Yet 30+ years of clinical trials …

Protein kinase C in fungi—more than just cell wall integrity

JJ Heinisch, R Rodicio - FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Human protein kinase C (PKC) isoforms have been implicated in diseases such as
Alzheimer's, diabetes and cancers. In contrast to mammals, which have at least nine genes …

Conventional protein kinase C in the brain: 40 years later

JA Callender, AC Newton - Neuronal signaling, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Protein kinase C (PKC) is a family of enzymes whose members transduce a large variety of
cellular signals instigated by the receptor-mediated hydrolysis of membrane phospholipids …

Protein kinase C as a tumor suppressor

AC Newton - Seminars in cancer biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Protein kinase C (PKC) has historically been considered an oncoprotein. This stems in large
part from the discovery in the early 1980s that PKC is directly activated by tumor-promoting …