PRKRA

Protein kinase, interferon-inducible double stranded RNA dependent activator
PDB rendering based on 2dix.
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe, RCSB List of PDB id codes 2DIX​
Identifiers
Symbols	PRKRA ; DYT16; HSD14; PACT; RAX
External IDs	OMIM: 603424 MGI: 1344375 HomoloGene: 2738 GeneCards: PRKRA Gene
Gene ontology Molecular function • double-stranded RNA binding • protein binding • enzyme activator activity • enzyme binding • identical protein binding • protein homodimerization activity • poly(A) RNA binding Cellular component • nucleoplasm • cytoplasm • cytosol • membrane • perinuclear region of cytoplasm Biological process • protein phosphorylation • immune response • negative regulation of cell proliferation • response to virus • gene expression • production of siRNA involved in RNA interference • pre-miRNA processing • cellular response to oxidative stress • production of miRNAs involved in gene silencing by miRNA • outer ear morphogenesis • middle ear morphogenesis • positive regulation of catalytic activity • skeletal system morphogenesis • positive regulation of intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway Sources: Amigo / QuickGO
RNA expression pattern
More reference expression data
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	8575	23992
Ensembl	ENSG00000180228	ENSMUSG00000002731
UniProt	O75569	Q9WTX2
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_001139517	NM_011871
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001132989	NP_036001
Location (UCSC)	Chr 2: 178.43 – 178.45 Mb	Chr 2: 76.63 – 76.65 Mb
PubMed search

Protein kinase, interferon-inducible double stranded RNA dependent activator, also known as interferon-inducible double stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase activator A or Protein ACTivator of the interferon-induced protein kinase (PACT) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PRKRA gene.^[1][2][3] PACT heterodimerizes with and activates protein kinase R.^[2][4] PRKRA mutations have been linked to a rare form of dystonia parkinsonism. ^[5]

References

1. "Entrez Gene: PRKRA protein kinase, interferon-inducible double stranded RNA dependent activator".
2. Patel RC, Sen GC (August 1998). "PACT, a protein activator of the interferon-induced protein kinase, PKR". EMBO J. 17 (15): 4379–90. doi:10.1093/emboj/17.15.4379. PMC 1170771. PMID 9687506.
3. Ito T, Yang M, May WS (May 1999). "RAX, a cellular activator for double-stranded RNA-dependent protein kinase during stress signaling". J. Biol. Chem. 274 (22): 15427–32. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.22.15427. PMID 10336432.
4. Huang X, Hutchins B, Patel RC (August 2002). "The C-terminal, third conserved motif of the protein activator PACT plays an essential role in the activation of double-stranded-RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR)". Biochem. J. 366 (Pt 1): 175–86. doi:10.1042/BJ20020204. PMC 1222748. PMID 11985496.
5. Camargos S, Scholz S, Simón-Sánchez J, Paisán-Ruiz C, Lewis P, Hernandez D, Ding J, Gibbs JR, Cookson MR, Bras J, Guerreiro R, Oliveira CR, Lees A, Hardy J, Cardoso F, Singleton AB (March 2008). "DYT16, a novel young-onset dystonia-parkinsonism disorder: identification of a segregating mutation in the stress-response protein PRKRA". Lancet Neurology 7 (3): 207–215. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(08)70022-X. PMID 18243799.

Further reading

• Maruyama K, Sugano S (1994). "Oligo-capping: a simple method to replace the cap structure of eukaryotic mRNAs with oligoribonucleotides.". Gene 138 (1–2): 171–4. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(94)90802-8. PMID 8125298.
• Suzuki Y, Yoshitomo-Nakagawa K, Maruyama K, et al. (1997). "Construction and characterization of a full length-enriched and a 5'-end-enriched cDNA library". Gene 200 (1–2): 149–56. doi:10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00411-3. PMID 9373149.
• Peters GA, Hartmann R, Qin J, et al. (2001). "Modular structure of PACT: distinct domains for binding and activating PKR". Mol Cell Biol 21 (6): 1908–20. doi:10.1128/MCB.21.6.1908-1920.2001. PMC 86773. PMID 11238927.
• Wiemann S, Weil B, Wellenreuther R, et al. (2001). "Toward a catalog of human genes and proteins: sequencing and analysis of 500 novel complete protein coding human cDNAs". Genome Res. 11 (3): 422–35. doi:10.1101/gr.GR1547R. PMC 311072. PMID 11230166.
• Simpson JC, Wellenreuther R, Poustka A, et al. (2001). "Systematic subcellular localization of novel proteins identified by large-scale cDNA sequencing". EMBO Rep. 1 (3): 287–92. doi:10.1093/embo-reports/kvd058. PMC 1083732. PMID 11256614.
• Horng T, Barton GM, Medzhitov R (2001). "TIRAP: an adapter molecule in the Toll signaling pathway". Nat. Immunol. 2 (9): 835–41. doi:10.1038/ni0901-835. PMID 11526399.
• Huang X, Hutchins B, Patel RC (2002). "The C-terminal, third conserved motif of the protein activator PACT plays an essential role in the activation of double-stranded-RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR)". Biochem. J. 366 (Pt 1): 175–86. doi:10.1042/BJ20020204. PMC 1222748. PMID 11985496.
• Peters GA, Khoo D, Mohr I, Sen GC (2002). "Inhibition of PACT-mediated activation of PKR by the herpes simplex virus type 1 Us11 protein". J. Virol. 76 (21): 11054–64. doi:10.1128/JVI.76.21.11054-11064.2002. PMC 136652. PMID 12368348.
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH, et al. (2003). "Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences". Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 (26): 16899–903. doi:10.1073/pnas.242603899. PMC 139241. PMID 12477932.
• Yang M, Ito T, May WS (2003). "A novel role for RAX, the cellular activator of PKR, in synergistically stimulating SV40 large T antigen-dependent gene expression". J. Biol. Chem. 278 (40): 38325–32. doi:10.1074/jbc.M303420200. PMID 12874289.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T, et al. (2004). "Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs". Nat. Genet. 36 (1): 40–5. doi:10.1038/ng1285. PMID 14702039.
• Bennett RL, Blalock WL, May WS (2004). "Serine 18 phosphorylation of RAX, the PKR activator, is required for PKR activation and consequent translation inhibition". J. Biol. Chem. 279 (41): 42687–93. doi:10.1074/jbc.M403321200. PMID 15299031.
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA, et al. (2004). "The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)". Genome Res. 14 (10B): 2121–7. doi:10.1101/gr.2596504. PMC 528928. PMID 15489334.
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• Rual JF, Venkatesan K, Hao T, et al. (2005). "Towards a proteome-scale map of the human protein-protein interaction network". Nature 437 (7062): 1173–8. doi:10.1038/nature04209. PMID 16189514.
• Peters GA, Li S, Sen GC (2006). "Phosphorylation of specific serine residues in the PKR-activation domain of PACT is essential for its ability to mediate apoptosis". J Biol Chem 281 (46): 35129–36. doi:10.1074/jbc.M607714200. PMID 16982605.
• Rowe TM, Rizzi M, Hirose K, Peters GA, et al. (2006). "A role of the double-stranded RNA-binding protein PACT in mouse ear development and hearing". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 (15): 5823–8. doi:10.1073/pnas.0601287103. PMC 1458657. PMID 16571658.
• Li S, Peters GA, Ding K, et al. (2006). "Molecular basis for PKR activation by PACT or dsRNA". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103 (26): 10005–10. doi:10.1073/pnas.0602317103. PMC 1502496. PMID 16785445.
• Lee Y, Hur I, Park SY, et al. (2006). "The role of PACT in the RNA silencing pathway". EMBO J. 25 (3): 522–32. doi:10.1038/sj.emboj.7600942. PMC 1383527. PMID 16424907.
• Bennett RL, Blalock WL, Abtahi DM, et al. (2006). "RAX, the PKR activator, sensitizes cells to inflammatory cytokines, serum withdrawal, chemotherapy, and viral infection". Blood 108 (3): 821–9. doi:10.1182/blood-2005-11-006817. PMC 1617065. PMID 16861340.
• Peters GA, Seachrist DD, Keri RA, et al. (2009). "The double-stranded RNA-binding protein, PACT, is required for postnatal anterior pituitary proliferation". Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106 (26): 10696–701. doi:10.1073/pnas.0900735106. PMC 2705576. PMID 19541653.