Bioinformatics search for plant homologues of Ste20-like serine/threonine protein kinases

Eleven plant homologuess of animal and yeast STE20-like protein kinases were identified. It was shown that unknown proteins A9RVK0 of the moss Physcomitrella patens ssp. patens and A7P2E2 of the grape Vitis vinifera were the closest plant homologues of STE20-like protein kinases. The Ste20-like protein kinase dst1 of the myxomycete Dictyostelium discoideum was the closest to the plant homologues. The spatial structure of the catalytic domain of the protein A9RVK0 from P. patens ssp. patens was predicted.