PMID- 10356987 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990630 LR - 20190621 IS - 0014-5793 (Print) IS - 0014-5793 (Linking) VI - 451 IP - 1 DP - 1999 May 14 TI - ZIP kinase identified as a novel myosin regulatory light chain kinase in HeLa cells. PG - 81-4 AB - A novel myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) cDNA was isolated from a HeLa cell cDNA library. The deduced amino acid sequence was identical to that of a zipper-interacting protein kinase (ZIPK) which mediates apoptosis [Kawai et al. (1998) Mol. Cell. Biol. 18, 1642-1651]. Here we found that HeLa ZIPK phosphorylated the regulatory light chain of myosin II (MRLC) at both serine 19 and threonine 18 in a Ca2+/calmodulin independent manner. Phosphorylation of myosin II by HeLa ZIPK resulted in activation of actin-activated MgATPase activity of myosin II. HeLa ZIPK is the first non-muscle MLCK that phosphorylates MRLC at two sites. FAU - Murata-Hori, M AU - Murata-Hori M AD - Department of Biological Science, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan. FAU - Suizu, F AU - Suizu F FAU - Iwasaki, T AU - Iwasaki T FAU - Kikuchi, A AU - Kikuchi A FAU - Hosoya, H AU - Hosoya H LA - eng SI - GENBANK/AB022341 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - FEBS Lett JT - FEBS letters JID - 0155157 RN - 0 (Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins) RN - 0 (DNA, Complementary) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Death-Associated Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.17 (Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases) RN - EC 2.7.11.18 (Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Apoptosis Regulatory Proteins MH - Base Sequence MH - Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases MH - DNA, Complementary MH - Death-Associated Protein Kinases MH - HeLa Cells MH - Humans MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase/*metabolism MH - Phosphorylation MH - Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics/*metabolism EDAT- 1999/06/05 00:00 MHDA- 1999/06/05 00:01 CRDT- 1999/06/05 00:00 PHST- 1999/06/05 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/06/05 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/06/05 00:00 [entrez] AID - S0014-5793(99)00550-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00550-5 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - FEBS Lett. 1999 May 14;451(1):81-4. doi: 10.1016/s0014-5793(99)00550-5.