Emerging concepts in pseudoenzyme classification, evolution, and signaling

AJM Ribeiro, S Das, N Dawson, R Zaru, S Orchard… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
The 21st century is witnessing an explosive surge in our understanding of pseudoenzyme-
driven regulatory mechanisms in biology. Pseudoenzymes are proteins that have sequence …

The secret life of kinases: insights into non-catalytic signalling functions from pseudokinases

AV Jacobsen, JM Murphy - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2017 - portlandpress.com
Over the past decade, our understanding of the mechanisms by which pseudokinases,
which comprise∼ 10% of the human and mouse kinomes, mediate signal transduction has …

AXL confers cell migration and invasion by hijacking a PEAK1-regulated focal adhesion protein network

A Abu-Thuraia, MA Goyette, J Boulais… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Aberrant expression of receptor tyrosine kinase AXL is linked to metastasis. AXL can be
activated by its ligand GAS6 or by other kinases, but the signaling pathways conferring its …

Structural mapping of PEAK pseudokinase interactions identifies 14-3-3 as a molecular switch for PEAK3 signaling

MJ Roy, MG Surudoi, A Kropp, J Hou, W Dai… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
PEAK pseudokinases regulate cell migration, invasion and proliferation by recruiting key
signaling proteins to the cytoskeleton. Despite lacking catalytic activity, alteration in their …

The crystal structure of pseudokinase PEAK1 (Sugen kinase 269) reveals an unusual catalytic cleft and a novel mode of kinase fold dimerization

BH Ha, TJ Boggon - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2018 - ASBMB
The pseudokinase group encompasses some 10% of protein kinases, but pseudokinases
diverge from canonical kinases in key motifs. The two members of the small new kinase …

Structure of SgK223 pseudokinase reveals novel mechanisms of homotypic and heterotypic association

O Patel, MDW Griffin, S Panjikar, W Dai, X Ma… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The mammalian pseudokinase SgK223, and its structurally related homologue SgK269, are
oncogenic scaffolds that nucleate the assembly of specific signalling complexes and …

Dimerization of the Pragmin pseudo-kinase regulates protein tyrosine phosphorylation

C Lecointre, V Simon, C Kerneur, F Allemand… - Structure, 2018 - cell.com
The pseudo-kinase and signaling protein Pragmin has been linked to cancer by regulating
protein tyrosine phosphorylation via unknown mechanisms. Here we present the crystal …

The PEAK family of pseudokinases, their role in cell signalling and cancer

O Patel, MJ Roy, JM Murphy, IS Lucet - The FEBS journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The study of pseudokinases has uncovered that catalysis‐independent functions play a
critical role in cell signalling regulation. However, how pseudokinases dynamically …

The intracellular domains of the EphB6 and EphA10 receptor tyrosine pseudokinases function as dynamic signalling hubs

LY Liang, M Roy, CR Horne, JJ Sandow… - Biochemical …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
EphB6 and EphA10 are two poorly characterised pseudokinase members of the Eph
receptor family, which collectively serves as mediators of contact-dependent cell–cell …

Characterization of the Src-regulated kinome identifies SGK1 as a key mediator of Src-induced transformation

X Ma, L Zhang, J Song, E Nguyen, RS Lee… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite significant progress, our understanding of how specific oncogenes transform cells is
still limited and likely underestimates the complexity of downstream signalling events. To …