Roscovitine targets, protein kinases and pyridoxal kinase. |
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Bach, S Knockaert, M Reinhardt, J Lozach, O Schmitt, S Baratte, B Koken, M Coburn, SP Tang, L Jiang, T Liang, DC Galons, H Dierick, JF Pinna, LA Meggio, F Totzke, F Schachtele, C Lerman, AS Carnero, A Wan, Y Gray, N Meijer, L
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Bach S, etal., J Biol Chem. 2005 Sep 2;280(35):31208-19. Epub 2005 Jun 23. |
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2303026 |
Pubmed: |
PMID:15975926 (View Abstract at PubMed) |
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DOI:10.1074/jbc.M500806200 (Journal Full-text) |
(R)-Roscovitine (CYC202) is often referred to as a "selective inhibitor of cyclin-dependent kinases." Besides its use as a biological tool in cell cycle, neuronal functions, and apoptosis studies, it is currently evaluated as a potential drug to treat cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, viral infections, and glomerulonephritis. We have investigated the selectivity of (R)-roscovitine using three different methods: 1) testing on a wide panel of purified kinases that, along with previously published data, now reaches 151 kinases; 2) identifying roscovitine-binding proteins from various tissue and cell types following their affinity chromatography purification on immobilized roscovitine; 3) investigating the effects of roscovitine on cells deprived of one of its targets, CDK2. Altogether, the results show that (R)-roscovitine is rather selective for CDKs, in fact most kinases are not affected. However, it binds an unexpected, non-protein kinase target, pyridoxal kinase, the enzyme responsible for phosphorylation and activation of vitamin B6. These results could help in interpreting the cellular actions of (R)-roscovitine but also in guiding the synthesis of more selective roscovitine analogs.
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