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Nucleocytoplasmic shuttling of human inositol phosphate multikinase is influenced by CK2 phosphorylation

  • Rüdiger Meyer , Marcus M. Nalaskowski EMAIL logo , Patrick Ehm , Constantin Schröder , Xenia Naj , Maria A. Brehm and Georg W. Mayr
Published/Copyright: March 1, 2012

Abstract

Human inositol phosphate multikinase (IPMK) is a multifunctional protein in cellular signal transduction, namely, a multispecific inositol phosphate kinase, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, and a scaffold within the mTOR-raptor complex. To fulfill these nuclear and cytoplasmic functions, intracellular targeting of IPMK needs to be regulated. We show here that IPMK, which has been considered to be a preferentially nuclear protein, is a nucleocytoplasmic shuttling protein, whose nuclear export is mediated by classical nuclear export receptor CRM1. We identified a functional nuclear export signal (NES) additionally to its previously described nuclear import signal (NLS). Furthermore, we describe a mechanism by which the activity of the IPMK-NLS is controlled. Protein kinase CK2 binds endogenous IPMK and phosphorylates it at serine 284. Interestingly, this phosphorylation can decrease nuclear localization of IPMK cell type specifically. A controlled nuclear import of IPMK may direct its actions either toward nuclear inositol phosphate (InsPx) metabolism or cytoplasmic actions on InsPx, phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate [PtdIns(4,5)P2], as well as mTOR-raptor.


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Received: 2011-9-5
Accepted: 2012-1-12
Published Online: 2012-03-01
Published in Print: 2012-03-01

©2012 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston

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