Institut für Physiol. Chem., Abt. für Biochemie Systeme und Proteinstrukturlabor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Human phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase, isoform PI4K92, was expressed as His6 tagged protein in Sf9 cells reaching a level of approximately 5% of cellular protein. The enzyme can be purified nearly to homogeneity in a single step by absorption/desorption on Ni/nitriloacetic acid agarose magnetic beads. High Km values in the millimolar range for ATP and PtdIns as well as only a moderate inhibition by adenosine and a sensitivity to Wortmannin (IC50 approximately 300 nM) characterize the enzyme as a type 3 PI4K. The enzyme produces PtdIns4P as product. The isolated enzyme is a phosphoprotein, additionally phosphate is incorporated by incubation with ATP/Mg or ATP/Mn. Phosphorylation sites were mapped by MALDI-MS and LC-MS/MS at the following positions: S258, T263, S266, S277, S294, T423, S496, T504. Accordingly, a stretch of 81 amino acids between the common and the C-terminal catalytic domain was designated phosphorylation domain.