Gene Review:
dnk - deoxyribonucleoside kinase
Drosophila melanogaster
Synonyms:
CG5452, DM-dNK, DNK, Deoxynucleoside kinase, Deoxyribonucleoside kinase, ...
Jordheim,
Galmarini,
Dumontet,
Curbo,
Amiri,
Foroogh,
Johansson,
Karlsson,
Solaroli,
Bjerke,
Amiri,
Johansson,
Karlsson,
Balzarini,
Degrève,
Hatse,
De Clercq,
Breuer,
Johansson,
Huybrechts,
Karlsson,
Knecht,
Sandrini,
Johansson,
Eklund,
Munch-Petersen,
Piskur,
Knecht,
Petersen,
Munch-Petersen,
Piskur,
Solaroli,
Johansson,
Balzarini,
Karlsson,
- Cloning and characterization of the multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase of Drosophila melanogaster. Johansson, M., van Rompay, A.R., Degrève, B., Balzarini, J., Karlsson, A. J. Biol. Chem. (1999)
- Gemcitabine resistance due to deoxycytidine kinase deficiency can be reverted by fruitfly deoxynucleoside kinase, DmdNK, in human uterine sarcoma cells. Jordheim, L.P., Galmarini, C.M., Dumontet, C. Cancer Chemother. Pharmacol. (2006)
- A few amino acid substitutions can convert deoxyribonucleoside kinase specificity from pyrimidines to purines. Knecht, W., Sandrini, M.P., Johansson, K., Eklund, H., Munch-Petersen, B., Piskur, J. EMBO J. (2002)
- DNA of Drosophila melanogaster contains 5-methylcytosine. Gowher, H., Leismann, O., Jeltsch, A. EMBO J. (2000)
- N1-substituted thymine derivatives as mitochondrial thymidine kinase (TK-2) inhibitors. Hernandez, A.I., Familiar, O., Negri, A., Rodríguez-Barrios, F., Gago, F., Karlsson, A., Camarasa, M.J., Balzarini, J., Pérez-Pérez, M.J. J. Med. Chem. (2006)
- Active site mutants of Drosophila melanogaster multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase. Solaroli, N., Bjerke, M., Amiri, M.H., Johansson, M., Karlsson, A. Eur. J. Biochem. (2003)
- Bystander effects of cancer cell lines transduced with the multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase of Drosophila melanogaster and synergistic enhancement by hydroxyurea. Zheng, X., Johansson, M., Karlsson, A. Mol. Pharmacol. (2001)
- Enhanced toxicity of purine nucleoside analogs in cells expressing Drosophila melanogaster nucleoside kinase mutants. Solaroli, N., Johansson, M., Balzarini, J., Karlsson, A. Gene Ther. (2007)
- Nucleoside analog cytotoxicity and bystander cell killing of cancer cells expressing Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase in the nucleus or cytosol. Zheng, X., Johansson, M., Karlsson, A. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (2001)
- Retroviral transduction of cancer cell lines with the gene encoding Drosophila melanogaster multisubstrate deoxyribonucleoside kinase. Zheng, X., Johansson, M., Karlsson, A. J. Biol. Chem. (2000)
- Transient expression of Drosophila melanogaster deoxynucleoside kinase gene enhances cytotoxicity of nucleoside analogs. Kamiya, H., Ochiai, H., Harashima, H., Ito, M., Matsuda, A. Nucleosides Nucleotides Nucleic Acids (2006)
- The Drosophila melanogaster UMP-CMP kinase cDNA encodes an N-terminal mitochondrial import signal. Curbo, S., Amiri, M., Foroogh, F., Johansson, M., Karlsson, A. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. (2003)
- The multifunctional deoxynucleoside kinase of insect cells is a target for the development of new insecticides. Balzarini, J., Degrève, B., Hatse, S., De Clercq, E., Breuer, M., Johansson, M., Huybrechts, R., Karlsson, A. Mol. Pharmacol. (2000)
- Deoxyribonucleoside kinases belonging to the thymidine kinase 2 (TK2)-like group vary significantly in substrate specificity, kinetics and feed-back regulation. Knecht, W., Petersen, G.E., Munch-Petersen, B., Piskur, J. J. Mol. Biol. (2002)
- Structural basis for the changed substrate specificity of Drosophila melanogaster deoxyribonucleoside kinase mutant N64D. Welin, M., Skovgaard, T., Knecht, W., Zhu, C., Berenstein, D., Munch-Petersen, B., Piskur, J., Eklund, H. FEBS J. (2005)
- Structural basis for substrate specificities of cellular deoxyribonucleoside kinases. Johansson, K., Ramaswamy, S., Ljungcrantz, C., Knecht, W., Piskur, J., Munch-Petersen, B., Eriksson, S., Eklund, H. Nat. Struct. Biol. (2001)