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Review
. 2010 Feb:1188:39-45.
doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05081.x.

PI3K kinase and scaffold functions in heart

Federico Damilano  1 , Alessia Perino, Emilio Hirsch
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PI3K kinase and scaffold functions in heart

Federico Damilano et al. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2010 Feb.

Abstract

Signal transduction events are key modulators of cellular function and, in the cardiovascular system, an emerging role is played by phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks), a family of enzymes containing a 3-phosphorylated phosphoinositide that produce lipid second messengers. In the heart, multiple PI3K isoforms are expressed, but play potentially distinct roles. Among cardiac PI3Ks, PI3Kalpha is triggered by tyrosine kinase receptors and plays a role in adaptive hypertrophy, while PI3Kgamma is triggered by G protein-coupled receptors and is involved in maladaptive heart remodeling. This view has been recently complicated by the finding that PI3Ks can also be involved in protein-protein interactions and affect signaling independently of their kinase activity. This review will thus focus on the effects of these multiple signaling events, with particular emphasis on their involvement in cardiac hypertrophy and failure.

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