PMID:10570971

Citation	Mizuno, T, Amano, M, Kaibuchi, K and Nishida, Y (1999) Identification and characterization of Drosophila homolog of Rho-kinase. Gene 238:437-44
Abstract	The Rho family of small GTPases and their associated regulators and targets are essential mediators of diverse morphogenetic events in development. Mammalian Rho-kinase/ROK alpha, one of the targets of Rho, has been shown to bind to Rho in GTP-bound form and to phosphorylate the myosin light chain (MLC) and the myosin-binding subunit (MBS) of myosin phosphatase, resulting in the activation of myosin. Thus, Rho-kinase/ROK alpha has been suggested to play essential roles in the formation of stress fibers and focal adhesions. We have identified the Drosophila homolog of Rho-kinase/ROK alpha, DRho-kinase, which has conserved the basic structural feature of Rho-kinase/ROK alpha consisting of the N-terminal kinase, central coiled-coil and C-terminal pleckstrin homology (PH) domains. A two-hybrid analysis demonstrated that DRho-kinase interacts with the GTP-bound form of the Drosophila Rho. Drho1, at the conserved Rho-binding site. DRho-kinase can phosphorylate MLC and MBS, preferable substrates for bovine Rho-kinase, in vitro. DRho-kinase is ubiquitously expressed throughout development, in a pattern essentially identical to that of Drho1. These results suggest that DRho-kinase is an effector of Drho1.
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Keywords	Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Cloning, Molecular; DNA, Complementary; Drosophila/enzymology; Humans; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Molecular Sequence Data; Protein Binding; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/chemistry; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/genetics; Protein-Serine-Threonine Kinases/metabolism; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; rho-Associated Kinases
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