cardiac-specific kinase

Transcription factor which plays a key role in the Hippo signaling pathway, a pathway involved in organ size control and tumor suppression by restricting proliferation and promoting apoptosis. The core of this pathway is composed of a kinase cascade wherein MST1/MST2, in complex with its regulatory protein SAV1, phosphorylates and activates LATS1/2 in complex with its regulatory protein MOB1, which in turn phosphorylates and inactivates YAP1 oncoprotein and WWTR1/TAZ. Acts by mediating gene expression of YAP1 and WWTR1/TAZ, thereby regulating cell proliferation, migration and epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) induction. Binds specifically and cooperatively to the SPH and GT-IIC 'enhansons' (5'-GTGGAATGT-3') and activates transcription in vivo in a cell-specific manner. The activation function appears to be mediated by a limiting cell-specific transcriptional intermediary factor (TIF). Involved in cardiac development. Binds to the M-CAT motif.

Serine / threonine-protein kinase Sgk3, also known as Serum / glucocorticoid-regulated kinase 3, Serum / glucocorticoid-regulated kinase-like and SGK3, is a cytoplasmic vesicle protein that belongs to the protein kinase superfamily and AGC Ser/Thr protein kinase family. SGK3 contains one AGC-kinase C-terminal domain, one protein kinase domain and one PX (phox homology) domain. Two specific sites of SGK3, one in the kinase domain (Thr-32) and the other in the C-terminal regulatory region (Ser-486), is needed to be phosphorylated for its full activation. SGK3 is expressed in most tissues with highest levels in pancreas, kidney liver, heart and brain and lower levels in lung, placenta and skeletal muscle. SGK3 is involved in the activation of potassium channels. It mediates cell IL-3-dependent survival signals. SGK3 participates in the regulation of HERG by increasing HERG protein abundance in the plasma membrane and may thus modify the duration of the cardiac action potential. SGK3 is also a very important and characteristic molecule that plays a critical role in both hair follicle morphogenesis and hair cycling.