“…The enzyme is activated by polyamines (Maenpaa, 1977), potently inhibited by heparin (Hathaway et al, 1980) and can utilize GTP as a phosphate donor. Considerable interest in CK-II has arisen recently because its activity is stimulated significantly in response to several mitogens including serum (Carroll and Marshak, 1989), TPA (Carroll et al, 1988), insulin (Sommercorn et al, 1987;Klarlund and Czech, 1988); insulin-like growth factor I (Klarlund and Czech, 1988) and epidermal growth factor (Sommercorn et al, 1987;Ackerman and Osheroff, 1989). Moreover, CK-II has a broad substrate specificity which includes nuclear oncoproteins such as Myc (Luscher et al, 1989), Myb (Krebs et al, 1988;Luscher et al, 1990), Fos (Carroll et al, 1988), the adenovirus ElA protein (Carroll et al, 1988), the human papillomavirus (types 6, 16 and 18) E7 protein (Firzlaff et al, 1989; Barbosa et al, 1990) and the SV40 large T antigen (Grasser et al, 1988;Krebs et al, 1988).…”