Hindawi Publishing Corporation Computational Biology Journal Volume 2014, Article ID 909268, 14 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/909268 Research Article Identification of Plant Homologues of Dual Specificity Yak1-Related Kinases Pavel Karpov,1 Aleksey Raevsky,1 Maxim Korablyov,1,2 and Yaroslav Blume1,2 1 Department of Genomics and Molecular Biotechnology, Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Osipovskogo Street 2a, Kyiv 04123, Ukraine 2Department of General and Molecular Genetics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (KNU), Glushkova Street 2, Kyiv 02090, Ukraine Correspondence should be addressed to Yaroslav Blume;
[email protected] Received 28 April 2014; Revised 16 September 2014; Accepted 25 September 2014; Published 8 December 2014 Academic Editor: Mihaly Mezei Copyright © 2014 Pavel Karpov et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Currently, Dual Specificity YAK1-Related Kinases (MNB/DYRK) were found in slime molds, protista, fungi, and animals, but the existence of plant homologues is still unclear. In the present study, we have identified 14 potential plant homologues with the previously unknown functions, based on the strong sequence similarity. The results of bioinformatics analysis revealed their correspondence to DYRK1A, DYRK1B, DYRK3, and DYRK4. For two plant homologues of animal DYRK1A from Physcomitrella patens and Arabidopsis thaliana spatial structures of catalytic domains were predicted, as well as their complexes with ADP and selective inhibitor d15. Comparative analysis of 3D-structures of the human DYRK1A and plant homologues, their complexes with the specific inhibitors, and results of molecular dynamics confirm their structural and functional similarity with high probability.