The formation of distant metastases is a complex process involving escape of cancer cells from the primary tumor, dissemination to distant organs, and finally re-colonization and expansion (1). For metastatic dissemination, the cancer cell must acquire the ability to migrate, which is associated with cytoskeletal re-arrangements. Migrating cells extend actinbased filopodia and lamellipodia at the leading edge. To initiate this process, a local formation of F-actin is required, which can be mediated by actin nucleating (e.g. Arp2/3 and formins (2)), F-actin bundling (e.g. fascin (3)), and by F-actin cross-linking proteins (e.g. filamins (4)). The actin-severing proteins ADF/ cofilin and gelsolin depolymerize F-actin and thus increase actin turnover (5). The balance between stimulation of actinpolymerizing proteins and actin-depolymerizing proteins is tightly regulated by distinct signaling pathways (e.g. phospholipase C and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (6 -8)). As activation of these pathways can also result in induction of proliferation, "fine-tuning" of continuous signal inputs determines the cellular response. This fine-tuning is mediated by various small molecules, including calcium, cyclic AMP, phosphatidylinositol phosphates, and inositol phosphates. Among the inositides, membranous phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate plays a central role in the control of migration as it regulates the activity of cofilin, gelsolin, and profilin (9, 10) and serves as a substrate for the production of the calcium-mobilizing second messenger inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate (Ins(1,4,5)P 3 ).2 Phospholipase C-mediated hydrolysis of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate increases Ins(1,4,5)P 3 levels and subsequent calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum. Calcium plays an important role in cell migration because calcium transients activate gelsolin and indirectly ADF/cofilin (9, 10).Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate 3-kinase isoenzymes (ITPKA, ITPKB, and ITPKC) metabolize Ins(1,4,5)P 3 to inositol-1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphate (Ins(1,3,4,5)P 4 ), and thus regulate Ins(1,4,5)P 3 -induced calcium signals (11). The ITPK isoenzymes are highly conserved in their catalytically active C-terminal domains but show large differences in their N-terminal regulatory domains mediating mainly cellular targeting. The isoenzymes differ in subcellular localization and tissue expression patterns. ITPKB and ITPKC mRNAs are ubiquitously expressed, whereas mRNA of ITPKA was only identified in neurons and testis (12). In neurons, ITPKA was shown to be targeted to F-actin via an N-terminal actin binding domain (amino acids 1-66 (13)) and was suggested to be relevant for long term potentiation and spatial learning (14,15