PIM1

Proto-oncogene serine/threonine-protein kinase Pim-1 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PIM1 gene.[5][6][7]

PIM1
Available structures PDB Ortholog search: PDBe RCSB List of PDB id codes 1XQZ, 1XR1, 1XWS, 1YHS, 1YI3, 1YI4, 1YWV, 1YXS, 1YXT, 1YXU, 1YXV, 1YXX, 2BIK, 2BIL, 2BZH, 2BZI, 2BZJ, 2BZK, 2C3I, 2J2I, 2O3P, 2O63, 2O64, 2O65, 2OBJ, 2OI4, 2XIX, 2XIY, 2XIZ, 2XJ0, 2XJ1, 2XJ2, 3A99, 3BGP, 3BGQ, 3BGZ, 3BWF, 3C4E, 3CXW, 3CY2, 3CY3, 3DCV, 3F2A, 3JPV, 3JXW, 3JY0, 3JYA, 3MA3, 3QF9, 3R00, 3R01, 3R02, 3R04, 3T9I, 3UIX, 3UMW, 3UMX, 3VBQ, 3VBT, 3VBV, 3VBW, 3VBX, 3VBY, 3VC4, 3WE8, 4A7C, 4ALU, 4ALV, 4ALW, 4AS0, 4BZN, 4BZO, 4DTK, 4ENX, 4ENY, 4GW8, 4I41, 4IAA, 4JX3, 4JX7, 4K0Y, 4K18, 4K1B, 4LL5, 4LM5, 4MBI, 4MBL, 4MED, 4MTA, 4N6Y, 4N6Z, 4N70, 4RBL, 4RC2, 4RC3, 4RC4, 4RPV, 4TY1, 4WRS, 4WSY, 4WT6, 4XHK, 4XH6, 5C1Q, 5DWR, 5DIA, 5DHJ, 5DGZ, 5EOL, 5IPJ, 5IIS
Identifiers
Aliases	PIM1, PIM, Pim-1 proto-oncogene, serine/threonine kinase
External IDs	OMIM: 164960 MGI: 97584 HomoloGene: 11214 GeneCards: PIM1
Gene location (Human) Chr. Chromosome 6 (human)[1] Band 6p21.2 Start 37,170,152 bp[1] End 37,175,428 bp[1]
Gene location (Mouse) Chr. Chromosome 17 (mouse)[2] Band 17 A3.3|17 15.38 cM Start 29,490,753 bp[2] End 29,496,112 bp[2]
RNA expression pattern More reference expression data
Gene ontology Molecular function • transferase activity • nucleotide binding • protein kinase activity • manganese ion binding • ribosomal small subunit binding • transcription factor binding • metal ion binding • kinase activity • protein serine/threonine kinase activity • GO:0001948 protein binding • ATP binding Cellular component • cytoplasm • membrane • cell membrane • nucleoplasm • nucleolus • cytosol • cell nucleus Biological process • phosphorylation • negative regulation of apoptotic process • negative regulation of sequence-specific DNA binding transcription factor activity • multicellular organism development • protein phosphorylation • hyaluronan metabolic process • autophosphorylation • cell cycle • cellular proliferation • vitamin D receptor signaling pathway • apoptotic process • regulation of mitotic cell cycle • positive regulation of cardiac muscle cell proliferation • positive regulation of cardioblast proliferation • cytokine-mediated signaling pathway • positive regulation of transcription, DNA-templated • protein stabilization • regulation of hematopoietic stem cell proliferation Sources:Amigo / QuickGO
Orthologs
Species	Human	Mouse
Entrez	5292	18712
Ensembl	ENSG00000137193	ENSMUSG00000024014
UniProt	P11309	P06803
RefSeq (mRNA)	NM_002648 NM_001243186	NM_008842 NM_001364913
RefSeq (protein)	NP_001230115 NP_002639	NP_032868 NP_001351842
Location (UCSC)	Chr 6: 37.17 – 37.18 Mb	Chr 17: 29.49 – 29.5 Mb
PubMed search	[3]	[4]
Wikidata
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Pim-1 is a proto-oncogene which encodes for the serine/threonine kinase of the same name. The pim-1 oncogene was first described in relation to murine T-cell lymphomas, as it was the locus most frequently activated by the Moloney murine leukemia virus.[8] Subsequently, the oncogene has been implicated in multiple human cancers, including prostate cancer, acute myeloid leukemia and other hematopoietic malignancies.[9] Primarily expressed in spleen, thymus, bone marrow, prostate, oral epithelial, hippocampus and fetal liver cells, Pim-1 has also been found to be highly expressed in cell cultures isolated from human tumors.[8] Pim-1 is mainly involved in cell cycle progression, apoptosis and transcriptional activation, as well as more general signal transduction pathways.[8] Pim-1's role in oncogenic signalling has led to it becoming a widely studied target in cancer research, with numerous drug candidates under investigation which target it.[10][11]

Gene

Located on chromosome 6 (6p21.2), the gene encompasses 5Kb of DNA, including 6 exons and 5 introns. Expression of Pim-1 has been shown to be regulated by the JAK/STAT pathway. Direct binding of transcription factors STAT3 and STAT5 to the Pim-1 promoter results in the transcription of Pim-1.[8] The Pim-1 gene has been found to be conserved in dogs, cows, mice, rats, zebrafish and C. elegans. Pim-1 deficient mice have been shown to be phenotypically normal, indicating that there is redundancy in the function of this kinase.[8] In fact, sequence homology searches have shown that two other Pim-1-like kinases, Pim-2 and Pim-3, are structurally and functionally similar.[8] The Pim-1 gene encodes has multiple translation initiation sites, resulting in two proteins of 34 and 44kD.[8]

Protein structure

Human, murine and rat Pim-1 contain 313 amino acids, and have a 94 – 97% amino acid identity.[8] The active site of the protein, ranging from amino acids 38-290, is composed of several conserved motifs, including a glycine loop motif, a phosphate binding site and a proton acceptor site.[8] Modification of the protein at amino acid 67 (lysine to methionine) results in the inactivation of the kinase.[8]

Activation and stabilization

Pim-1 is primarily involved in cytokine signaling, and has been implicated in many signal transduction pathways. Because Pim-1 transcription is initiated by STAT3 and STAT5, its production is regulated by the cytokines that regulate the STAT pathway, or STAT factors. These include interleukins (IL-2, IL-3,IL-5, IL-6, IL-7, IL12, IL-15), prolactin, TNFα, EGF and IFNγ, among others.[8] Pim-1 itself can bind to negative regulators of the JAK/STAT pathway, resulting in a negative feedback loop.

Although little is known about the post-transcriptional modifications of Pim-1, it has been hypothesized that Hsp90 is responsible for the folding and stabilization of Pim-1, although the exact mechanism has yet to be discovered.[8] Furthermore, the serine/threonine phosphatase PP2 has been shown to degrade Pim-1.

Interactions

PIM1 has been shown to interact with:

• CBX3,[12]
• CDC25A,[13]
• Heat shock protein 90kDa alpha (cytosolic), member A1,[14]
• NFATC1,[15]
• Nuclear mitotic apparatus protein 1,[16]
• P21,[17]
• SND1[18] and
• RELA.[19]

Other known substrates/binding partners of Pim-1 include proteins involved in transcription regulation (nuclear adaptor protein p100, HP-1, PAP-1 and TRAF2 / SNX6), and regulation of the JAK/STAT pathway (SOCS1 and SOCS3).[8] Furthermore, Pim-1 has been shown to be a cofactor for c-Myc, a transcription factor believed to regulate 15% of all genes, and their synergy has been in prostate tumorigenesis.[20]

Pim-1 is able to phosphorylate many targets, including itself. Many of its targets are involved in cell cycle regulation.

Activates

• Cdc25C (G₁/S positive regulator): Activation results in increased G₁ → S[8]
• Cdc25C (G₂/M positive regulator): Activation results in increased G₂ → M[8]

Deactivates

• Bad (Pro-apoptotic protein): Deactivation results in increased cell survival[8]
• CKI (G1/S negative regulator): Deactivation results in increased G₁ → S[8]
• C-TAK1 (Cdc25C inhibitor): Deactivation results in increased G₂ → M[8]

Clinical implications

Pim-1 is directly involved in the regulation of cell cycle progression and apoptosis, and has been implicated in numerous cancers including prostate cancer, Burkitt's lymphoma and oral cancer, as well as numerous hematopoietic lymphomas. Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the Pim-1 gene have been associated with increased risk for lung cancer in Korean patients, and have also been found in diffuse large cell lymphomas.[21] As well as showing useful activity against a range of cancers,[11] PIM kinase inhibitors have also been suggested as possible treatments for Alzheimer's disease.[22] PIM expression is sufficient to drive resistance to anti-angiogenic agents in prostate and colon cancer models, although the mechanism is not fully elucidated.[23] It has been suggested that a co-targeted therapeutic approach to inhibtion of Pim-1 in cancer may be preferable, with suggested co-targets including the PI3K pathway and more.[10]

Inhibitors

A large number of small molecule inhibitors of PIM1 have been developed. Clinical trial results so far have showed promising anti-cancer activity, but side effects due to insufficient selectivity have proved problematic and research continues to find more potent and selective inhibitors for this target.[24][25][26][27][28][29][30][10][11]

Examples

• AZD1208 [31]
• LGH447 [32]
• SGI-1776,[33][34]
• TP-3654 [35]

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Further reading

• Ragoussis J, Senger G, Mockridge I, Sanseau P, Ruddy S, Dudley K, Sheer D, Trowsdale J (November 1992). "A testis-expressed Zn finger gene (ZNF76) in human 6p21.3 centromeric to the MHC is closely linked to the human homolog of the t-complex gene tcp-11". Genomics. 14 (3): 673–9. doi:10.1016/S0888-7543(05)80167-3. PMID 1427894.
• Saris CJ, Domen J, Berns A (March 1991). "The pim-1 oncogene encodes two related protein-serine/threonine kinases by alternative initiation at AUG and CUG". The EMBO Journal. 10 (3): 655–64. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1991.tb07994.x. PMC 452698. PMID 1825810.
• Reeves R, Spies GA, Kiefer M, Barr PJ, Power M (June 1990). "Primary structure of the putative human oncogene, pim-1". Gene. 90 (2): 303–7. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(90)90195-W. PMID 2205533.
• Amson R, Sigaux F, Przedborski S, Flandrin G, Givol D, Telerman A (November 1989). "The human protooncogene product p33pim is expressed during fetal hematopoiesis and in diverse leukemias". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 86 (22): 8857–61. doi:10.1073/pnas.86.22.8857. PMC 298389. PMID 2682662.
• Telerman A, Amson R, Zakut-Houri R, Givol D (April 1988). "Identification of the human pim-1 gene product as a 33-kilodalton cytoplasmic protein with tyrosine kinase activity". Molecular and Cellular Biology. 8 (4): 1498–503. doi:10.1128/mcb.8.4.1498. PMC 363308. PMID 2837645.
• Meeker TC, Nagarajan L, ar-Rushdi A, Croce CM (October 1987). "Cloning and characterization of the human PIM-1 gene: a putative oncogene related to the protein kinases". Journal of Cellular Biochemistry. 35 (2): 105–12. doi:10.1002/jcb.240350204. PMID 3429489. S2CID 43495337.
• Zakut-Houri R, Hazum S, Givol D, Telerman A (1987). "The cDNA sequence and gene analysis of the human pim oncogene". Gene. 54 (1): 105–11. doi:10.1016/0378-1119(87)90352-0. PMID 3475233.
• Leverson JD, Koskinen PJ, Orrico FC, Rainio EM, Jalkanen KJ, Dash AB, Eisenman RN, Ness SA (October 1998). "Pim-1 kinase and p100 cooperate to enhance c-Myb activity". Molecular Cell. 2 (4): 417–25. doi:10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80141-0. PMID 9809063.
• Mochizuki T, Kitanaka C, Noguchi K, Muramatsu T, Asai A, Kuchino Y (June 1999). "Physical and functional interactions between Pim-1 kinase and Cdc25A phosphatase. Implications for the Pim-1-mediated activation of the c-Myc signaling pathway". The Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274 (26): 18659–66. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.26.18659. PMID 10373478.
• Koike N, Maita H, Taira T, Ariga H, Iguchi-Ariga SM (February 2000). "Identification of heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) as a phosphorylation target by Pim-1 kinase and the effect of phosphorylation on the transcriptional repression function of HP1(1)". FEBS Letters. 467 (1): 17–21. doi:10.1016/S0014-5793(00)01105-4. PMID 10664448. S2CID 29392124.
• Maita H, Harada Y, Nagakubo D, Kitaura H, Ikeda M, Tamai K, Takahashi K, Ariga H, Iguchi-Ariga SM (August 2000). "PAP-1, a novel target protein of phosphorylation by pim-1 kinase". European Journal of Biochemistry. 267 (16): 5168–78. doi:10.1046/j.1432-1327.2000.01585.x. PMID 10931201.
• Mizuno K, Shirogane T, Shinohara A, Iwamatsu A, Hibi M, Hirano T (March 2001). "Regulation of Pim-1 by Hsp90". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 281 (3): 663–9. doi:10.1006/bbrc.2001.4405. PMID 11237709.
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• Wang Z, Bhattacharya N, Meyer MK, Seimiya H, Tsuruo T, Tonani JA, Magnuson NS (June 2001). "Pim-1 negatively regulates the activity of PTP-U2S phosphatase and influences terminal differentiation and apoptosis of monoblastoid leukemia cells". Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 390 (1): 9–18. doi:10.1006/abbi.2001.2370. PMID 11368509.
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• Rainio EM, Sandholm J, Koskinen PJ (February 2002). "Cutting edge: Transcriptional activity of NFATc1 is enhanced by the Pim-1 kinase". Journal of Immunology. 168 (4): 1524–7. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.168.4.1524. PMID 11823475.
• Nieborowska-Skorska M, Hoser G, Kossev P, Wasik MA, Skorski T (June 2002). "Complementary functions of the antiapoptotic protein A1 and serine/threonine kinase pim-1 in the BCR/ABL-mediated leukemogenesis". Blood. 99 (12): 4531–9. doi:10.1182/blood.V99.12.4531. PMID 12036885.
• Bhattacharya N, Wang Z, Davitt C, McKenzie IF, Xing PX, Magnuson NS (July 2002). "Pim-1 associates with protein complexes necessary for mitosis". Chromosoma. 111 (2): 80–95. doi:10.1007/s00412-002-0192-6. PMID 12111331. S2CID 26016943.