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Regulation of protein function is vital for the control of cellular processes. Proteins are often regulated by allosteric mechanisms, in which effectors bind to regulatory sites distinct from the active sites and alter protein function. Intrasteric regulation, directed at the active site and thus the counterpart of allosteric control, is now emerging as an important regulatory mechanism.
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- B Kobe
- St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia.
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Jiang G, den Hertog J, Su J, Noel J, Sap J, Hunter T. Dimerization inhibits the activity of receptor-like protein-tyrosine phosphatase-alpha. Nature 1999; 401:606-10. [PMID: 10524630 DOI: 10.1038/44170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 153] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are vital for regulating tryosine phosphorylation in many processes, including growth and differentiation. The regulation of receptor-like PTP (RPTP) activity remains poorly understood, but based on the crystal structure of RPTPalpha domain 1 we have proposed that dimerization can negatively regulate activity, through the interaction of an inhibitory 'wedge' on one monomer with the catalytic cleft of domain 1 in the other monomer. Here we show that dimerization inhibits the activity of a full-length RPTP in vivo. We generated stable disulphide-bonded full-length RPTPalpha homodimers by expressing mutants with single cysteines at different positions in the ectodomain juxtamembrane region. Expression of wild-type RPTPalpha and Phe135Cys and Thr141Cys mutants in RPTPalpha-null mouse embryo cells increased dephosphorylation and activity of Tyr 529 in the protein tyrosine kinase c-Src; in contrast, expression of a Pro137Cys mutant did not. Mutation of Pro 210/211 to leucine in the inhibitory wedge of the Pro137Cys mutant restored its ability to activate c-Src, indicating that dimerization may inhibit full-length RPTPalpha activity in a manner stereochemically consistent with RPTPalpha crystal structures. Our results suggest that RPTPalpha activity can in principle be negatively regulated by dimerization in vivo.
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- G Jiang
- Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037, USA.
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Wang J, Bixby JL. Receptor tyrosine phosphatase-delta is a homophilic, neurite-promoting cell adhesion molecular for CNS neurons. Mol Cell Neurosci 1999; 14:370-84. [PMID: 10588391 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1999.0789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Appropriate regulation of tyrosine phosphorylation is essential for axon growth and guidance; evidence from invertebrates indicates that receptor-type tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) are required for correct axon growth during CNS development. One vertebrate RPTP, PTP-delta, is highly expressed in brain and has a cell adhesion molecule-like extracellular domain (ECD) comprising three immunoglobulin repeats and eight fibronectin type III repeats. Using fluorescent beads (Covaspheres) coated with the PTP-delta ECD, as well as insect cells expressing PTP-delta on their surfaces, we show that PTP-delta is a homophilic cell adhesion molecule. A variety of chick neurons adhere strongly to an Fc fusion protein containing the PTP-delta ECD. Additionally, substrate-bound PTP-delta ECD fusion protein strongly promotes neurite outgrowth from forebrain neurons; this effect is separable from its effect on adhesion. Our results indicate that PTP-delta is a neurite-promoting cell adhesion molecule for CNS neurons.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Baculoviridae/genetics
- CHO Cells
- Catalytic Domain
- Cell Adhesion/physiology
- Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal/chemistry
- Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal/genetics
- Cell Adhesion Molecules, Neuronal/metabolism
- Chick Embryo
- Cloning, Molecular
- Cricetinae
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Neurites/enzymology
- Neurons/cytology
- Neurons/enzymology
- Neurons/ultrastructure
- Prosencephalon/cytology
- Protein Binding/physiology
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/chemistry
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/genetics
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/metabolism
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 2
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Transfection
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- J Wang
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101, USA
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Cuppen E, Wijers M, Schepens J, Fransen J, Wieringa B, Hendriks W. A FERM domain governs apical confinement of PTP-BL in epithelial cells. J Cell Sci 1999; 112 ( Pt 19):3299-308. [PMID: 10504335 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.112.19.3299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PTP-BL is a cytosolic multidomain protein tyrosine phosphatase that shares homologies with several submembranous and tumor suppressor proteins. Here we show, by transient expression of modular protein domains of PTP-BL in epithelial MDCK cells, that the presence of a FERM domain in the protein is both necessary and sufficient for its targeting to the apical side of epithelial cells. Furthermore, immuno-electron microscopy on stable expressing MDCK pools, that were obtained using an EGFP-based cell sorting protocol, revealed that FERM domain containing fusion proteins are enriched in microvilli and have a typical submembranous location at about 10–15 nm from the plasma membrane. Immunofluorescence microscopy suggested colocalization of the FERM domain moiety with the membrane-cytoskeleton linker ezrin. However, at the electron microscopy level this colocalization cannot be confirmed nor can we detect a direct interaction by immunoprecipitation assays. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) experiments show that PTP-BL confinement is based on a dynamic steady state and that complete redistribution of the protein may occur within 20 minutes. Our observations suggest that relocation is mediated via a cytosolic pool, rather than by lateral movement. Finally, we show that PTP-BL phosphatase domains are involved in homotypic interactions, as demonstrated by yeast two-hybrid assays. Both the highly restricted subcellular compartmentalization and its specific associative properties may provide the appropriate conditions for regulating substrate specificity and catalytic activity of this member of the PTP family.
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- E Cuppen
- Department of Cell Biology, Institute of Cellular Signalling, University of Nijmegen, Adelbertusplein 1, The Netherlands
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One of the most important mechanisms of eukaryotic signalling is protein phosphorylation on tyrosine residues, which plays a pivotal role in development by regulating cell proliferation, differentiation and migration. Cellular phosphotyrosine (P.Tyr) levels are regulated by the antagonistic activities of the protein-tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs). We have good insight into the function of PTKs at the molecular level and into the role of PTK-mediated signalling in development. Intuitively, PTPs and PTKs are equally important in development. Over the past decade, much emphasis has been placed on elucidation of the function of PTPs, which has led to good insights into the mechanism of PTP-mediated dephosphorylation. Although still relatively little is known about the role of PTPs in cell signalling and development, evidence is now emerging that several PTPs are crucial for proper development. Here I will introduce PTP-mediated signalling and discuss recent findings regarding the function of PTPs in development.
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- J den Hertog
- Hubrecht Laboratory, Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Drosopoulos NE, Walsh FS, Doherty P. A soluble version of the receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase kappa stimulates neurite outgrowth via a Grb2/MEK1-dependent signaling cascade. Mol Cell Neurosci 1999; 13:441-9. [PMID: 10383829 DOI: 10.1006/mcne.1999.0758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase kappa (RPTPkappa) is expressed in the nervous system in a manner consistent with a role in axonal growth and guidance. The extracellular domain of RPTPkappa shares structural features with cell adhesion molecules and can support homophilic adhesion. In the present study we produced a soluble Fc-chimeric protein containing the full extracellular domain of RPTPkappa. Following affinity capture, the RPTPkappa-Fc was shown to promote the aggregation of Covasphere beads, confirming its homophilic binding activity. When added to cultures of cerebellar neurons as a soluble molecule, the RPTPkappa chimera stimulated neurite outgrowth. The neurite outgrowth response was substantially inhibited by a cell-permeable peptide inhibitor of Grb2 and by PD 098059, a drug that has been used to inhibit MEK1 activation in a wide range of cell types. These results demonstrate that RPTPkappa can stimulate neurite outgrowth and provide evidence that this might involve the coupling of Grb2 to a MAPK signal transduction cascade.
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- N E Drosopoulos
- Molecular Neurobiology Group, Guy's, King's and St Thomas's School of Medicine, Kings College London, Fourth Floor Hodgkin Building, Guy's Campus, London, SE1 9RT, United Kingdom
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Nam HJ, Poy F, Krueger NX, Saito H, Frederick CA. Crystal structure of the tandem phosphatase domains of RPTP LAR. Cell 1999; 97:449-57. [PMID: 10338209 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)80755-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Most receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) contain two conserved phosphatase domains (D1 and D2) in their intracellular region. The carboxy-terminal D2 domain has little or no catalytic activity. The crystal structure of the tandem D1 and D2 domains of the human RPTP LAR revealed that the tertiary structures of the LAR D1 and D2 domains are very similar to each other, with the exception of conformational differences at two amino acid positions in the D2 domain. Site-directed mutational changes at these positions (Leu-1644-to-Tyr and Glu-1779-to-Asp) conferred a robust PTPase activity to the D2 domain. The catalytic sites of both domains are accessible, in contrast to the dimeric blocked orientation model previously suggested. The relative orientation of the LAR D1 and D2 domains, constrained by a short linker, is stabilized by extensive interdomain interactions, suggesting that this orientation might be favored in solution.
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- H J Nam
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Garrity PA, Lee CH, Salecker I, Robertson HC, Desai CJ, Zinn K, Zipursky SL. Retinal axon target selection in Drosophila is regulated by a receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase. Neuron 1999; 22:707-17. [PMID: 10230791 DOI: 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)80730-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Different Drosophila photoreceptors (R cells) connect to neurons in different optic lobe layers. R1-R6 axons project to the lamina; R7 and R8 axons project to separate layers of the medulla. We show a receptor tyrosine phosphatase, PTP69D, is required for lamina target specificity. In Ptp69D mutants, R1-R6 project through the lamina, terminating in the medulla. Genetic mosaics, transgene rescue, and immunolocalization indicate PTP69D functions in R1-R6 growth cones. PTP69D overexpression in R7 and R8 does not respecify their connections, suggesting PTP69D acts in combination with other factors to determine target specificity. Structure-function analysis indicates the extracellular fibronectin type III domains and intracellular phosphatase activity are required for targeting. We propose PTP69D promotes R1-R6 targeting in response to extracellular signals by dephosphorylating substrate(s) in R1-R6 growth cones.
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- P A Garrity
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Biological Chemistry, Molecular Biology Institute, University of California School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90095, USA
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Wang Y, Guo W, Liang L, Esselman WJ. Phosphorylation of CD45 by casein kinase 2. Modulation of activity and mutational analysis. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:7454-61. [PMID: 10066810 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.11.7454] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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CD45 is a receptor-type protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) that is required for antigen-specific stimulation and proliferation in lymphocytes. This study was designed to determine the nature of specific kinases in lymphocytes that phosphorylate CD45 and to determine the effect of phosphorylation on CD45 PTP activity. A major cytoplasmic lymphocyte kinase that phosphorylated CD45 was identified as casein kinase 2 (CK2) by use of an in-gel kinase assay in combination with immunoprecipitation, immunodepletion, and specific inhibition. Mutational analysis of CK2 consensus sites showed that the target for CK2 was in an acidic insert of 19 amino acids in the D2 domain, and Ser to Ala mutations at amino acids 965, 968, 969, and 973 abrogated CK2 phosphorylation of CD45. CK2 phosphorylation increased CD45 activity 3-fold toward phosphorylated myelin basic protein, and this increase was reversible by PP2A treatment. Mutation of Ser to Glu at the CK2 sites had the same effect as phosphorylation and also tripled the Vmax of CD45. CD45 isolated in vivo was highly phosphorylated and could not be phosphorylated by CK2 without prior dephosphorylation with phosphatase PP2A. We conclude that CK2 is a major lymphocyte kinase that is responsible for in vivo phosphorylation of CD45, and phosphorylation at specific CK2 sites regulates CD45 PTP activity.
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- Y Wang
- Department of Microbiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1101, USA
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Cong LN, Chen H, Li Y, Lin CH, Sap J, Quon MJ. Overexpression of protein tyrosine phosphatase-alpha (PTP-alpha) but not PTP-kappa inhibits translocation of GLUT4 in rat adipose cells. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999; 255:200-7. [PMID: 10049686 DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.1999.0183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) are likely to play important roles in insulin action. We recently demonstrated that the nontransmembrane PTPase PTP1B can act as a negative modulator of insulin-stimulated translocation of GLUT4. We now examine the role of PTP-alpha and PTP-kappa (two transmembrane PTPases) in this metabolic action of insulin. Rat adipose cells were transfected with either PTP-alpha or PTP-kappa and effects of these PTPases on the translocation of a cotransfected epitope-tagged GLUT4 were studied. Cells overexpressing wild-type PTP-alpha had significantly lower levels of cell surface GLUT4 in response to insulin and a threefold decrease in insulin sensitivity when compared with control cells expressing only tagged GLUT4. Co-overexpression of PTP-alpha and PTP1B did not have additive effects, suggesting that these PTPases share common substrates. Cells overexpressing either wild-type PTP-kappa or catalytically inactive mutants of PTP-alpha had dose-response curves similar to those of control cells. Since overexpression of PTP-alpha, but not PTP-kappa, had effects on translocation of GLUT4, our data suggest that PTPalpha may be a specific negative modulator of insulin-stimulated glucose transport.
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- L N Cong
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Tsai W, Morielli AD, Cachero TG, Peralta EG. Receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase alpha participates in the m1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor-dependent regulation of Kv1.2 channel activity. EMBO J 1999; 18:109-18. [PMID: 9878055 PMCID: PMC1171107 DOI: 10.1093/emboj/18.1.109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The phosphorylation state of a given tyrosine residue is determined by both protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) and protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) activities. However, little is known about the functional interaction of these opposing activities at the level of an identified effector molecule. G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), including the m1 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR), regulate a tyrosine kinase activity that phosphorylates and suppresses current generated by the Kv1.2 potassium channel. We examined the possibility that PTPs also participate in this signaling pathway since the tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor vanadate increases the extent of both Kv1.2 phosphorylation and suppression. We show that an endogenous transmembrane tyrosine phosphatase, receptor tyrosine phosphatase alpha (RPTPalpha), becomes tyrosine phosphorylated and co-immunoprecipitates with Kv1.2 in a manner dependent on m1 receptor activation. The N- and C-termini of Kv1.2 are shown to bind RPTPalpha in vitro. Overexpression of RPTPalpha in Xenopus oocytes increases resting Kv1.2 current. Biochemical and electrophysiological analysis reveals that recruiting RPTPalpha to Kv1.2 functionally reverses the tyrosine kinase-induced phosphorylation and suppression of Kv1.2 current in mammalian cells. Taken together, these results identify RPTPalpha as a new target of m1 mAChR signaling and reveal a novel regulatory mechanism whereby GPCR-mediated suppression of a potassium channel depends on the coordinate and parallel regulation of PTK and PTP activities.
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- W Tsai
- Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Lim KL, Kolatkar PR, Ng KP, Ng CH, Pallen CJ. Interconversion of the kinetic identities of the tandem catalytic domains of receptor-like protein-tyrosine phosphatase PTPalpha by two point mutations is synergistic and substrate-dependent. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:28986-93. [PMID: 9786903 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.44.28986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The two tandem homologous catalytic domains of PTPalpha possess different kinetic properties, with the membrane proximal domain (D1) exhibiting much higher activity than the membrane distal (D2) domain. Sequence alignment of PTPalpha-D1 and -D2 with the D1 domains of other receptor-like PTPs, and modeling of the PTPalpha-D1 and -D2 structures, identified two non-conserved amino acids in PTPalpha-D2 that may account for its low activity. Mutation of each residue (Val-536 or Glu-671) to conform to its invariant counterpart in PTPalpha-D1 positively affected the catalytic efficiency of PTPalpha-D2 toward the in vitro substrates para-nitrophenylphosphate and the phosphotyrosyl-peptide RR-src. Together, they synergistically transformed PTPalpha-D2 into a phosphatase with catalytic efficiency for para-nitrophenylphosphate equal to PTPalpha-D1 but not approaching that of PTPalpha-D1 for the more complex substrate RR-src. In vivo, no gain in D2 activity toward p59(fyn) was effected by the double mutation. Alteration of the two corresponding invariant residues in PTPalpha-D1 to those in D2 conferred D2-like kinetics toward all substrates. Thus, these two amino acids are critical for interaction with phosphotyrosine but not sufficient to supply PTPalpha-D2 with a D1-like substrate specificity for elements of the phosphotyrosine microenvironment present in RR-src and p59(fyn). Whether the structural features of D2 can uniquely accommodate a specific phosphoprotein substrate or whether D2 has an alternate function in PTPalpha remains an open question.
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- K L Lim
- Cell Regulation Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 30 Medical Drive, Singapore 117609
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Yang J, Liang X, Niu T, Meng W, Zhao Z, Zhou GW. Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of protein-tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:28199-207. [PMID: 9774441 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.43.28199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The crystal structures of the protein-tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 catalytic domain and the complex it forms with the substrate analogue tungstate have been determined and refined to crystallographic R values of 0.209 at 2.5 A resolution and 0.207 at 2.8 A resolution, respectively. Despite low sequence similarity, the catalytic domain of SHP-1 shows high similarity in secondary and tertiary structures with other protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs). In contrast to the conformational changes observed in the crystal structures of PTP1B and Yersinia PTP, the WPD loop (Trp419-Pro428) in the catalytic domain of SHP-1 moves away from the substrate binding pocket after binding the tungstate ion. Sequence alignment and structural analysis suggest that the residues in the WPD loop, especially the amino acid following Asp421, are critical for the movement of WPD loop on binding substrates and the specific activity of protein-tyrosine phosphatases. Our mutagenesis and kinetic measurements have supported this hypothesis.
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- J Yang
- Program in Molecular Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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Tangye SG, Wu J, Aversa G, de Vries JE, Lanier LL, Phillips JH. Cutting Edge: Negative Regulation of Human T Cell Activation by the Receptor-Type Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase CD148. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.8.3803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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T cell activation represents a balance between positive and negative signals delivered via distinct cell surface molecules. Many cytoplasmic protein tyrosine phosphatases are involved in regulating cellular responses by antagonizing the action of protein tyrosine kinases. CD148 is a receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatase expressed by all human mononuclear cells. We have investigated the effect of CD148 on TCR-mediated activation of human T cells. Overexpression of wild-type, but not a phosphatase-deficient, CD148 in Jurkat T cells inhibited TCR-mediated activation, evidenced by reduced expression of the early activation Ag CD69, inhibition of tyrosine phosphorylation of many intracellular proteins including the critical protein tyrosine kinase ZAP-70, and impairment of mitogen-activated protein kinase activation. Taken together, these results suggest that CD148 is an important phosphatase involved in negatively regulating the proximal signaling events during activation of Ag-specific T cells.
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- Stuart G. Tangye
- Immunobiology Department, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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- Immunobiology Department, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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- Immunobiology Department, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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- Immunobiology Department, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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- Immunobiology Department, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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- Immunobiology Department, DNAX Research Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Palo Alto, CA 94304
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Recent structural information suggests that the HC(X)5R active-site motif defines three distinct evolutionary families of phosphatases that employ a common catalytic mechanism. In two instances, regulation of phosphatase activity employs autoinhibitory mechanisms involving either intermolecular or intramolecular interactions, whereby inhibition is mediated by sterically blocking the active-site cleft.
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- J M Denu
- Oregon Health Sciences University, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Portland 97201-3098, USA.
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Honkaniemi J, Zhang JS, Yang T, Zhang C, Tisi MA, Longo FM. LAR tyrosine phosphatase receptor: proximal membrane alternative splicing is coordinated with regional expression and intraneuronal localization. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1998; 60:1-12. [PMID: 9748473 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(98)00151-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Examination of null-mutant Drosophila and Leukocyte Common Antigen-Related (LAR)-deficient transgenic mice has demonstrated that the LAR protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) receptor promotes neurite outgrowth. In the absence of known ligands, the mechanisms by which LAR-type PTP receptors are regulated are unknown. We hypothesized that an alternatively spliced eleven amino acid proximal membrane segment of LAR (LAR alternatively spliced element-a; LASE-a) contributes to regulation of LAR function. Human, rat and mouse LAR cDNA sequences demonstrated that the predicted eleven amino acid inserts in rat and mouse are identical and share nine of eleven residues with the human insert. LASE-a splicing led to the introduction of a Ser residue into LAR at a position analogous to Ser residues undergoing regulated phosphorylation in other PTPs. In-situ studies revealed increasingly region-specific expression of LASE-a containing LAR transcripts during postnatal development. RT-PCR analysis of cortical and hippocampal tissue confirmed that the proportion of LAR transcripts containing LASE-a decreases during development. Immunostaining of cultured PC12 cells, cerebellar granule neurons, dorsal root ganglia and sciatic nerve sections with antibody directed against the LASE-a insert demonstrated signal in cell bodies but little if any along neurites. In contrast, staining with antibody directed to a separate domain of LAR showed accumulation of LAR along neurites. The findings that LASE-a splicing is conserved across human, rat and mouse, that the LASE-a insert introduces a Ser at a site likely to be targeted for regulated phosphorylation and that developmentally regulated splicing is coordinated with specific regional and intraneuronal localization point to important novel potential mechanisms regulating LAR-type tyrosine phosphatase receptor function in the nervous system.
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MESH Headings
- Alternative Splicing/physiology
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies
- Cerebellum/chemistry
- Cerebellum/cytology
- Cerebellum/enzymology
- Cerebral Cortex/chemistry
- Cerebral Cortex/cytology
- Cerebral Cortex/enzymology
- Child, Preschool
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA, Complementary
- Female
- Ganglia, Spinal/chemistry
- Ganglia, Spinal/cytology
- Ganglia, Spinal/enzymology
- Gene Expression
- Gene Library
- Hippocampus/chemistry
- Humans
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Nerve Tissue Proteins
- Neurons/chemistry
- Neurons/enzymology
- Neurons/physiology
- PC12 Cells
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Rats
- Rats, Sprague-Dawley
- Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 2
- Receptors, Cell Surface/analysis
- Receptors, Cell Surface/genetics
- Receptors, Cell Surface/immunology
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sciatic Nerve/chemistry
- Sciatic Nerve/cytology
- Sciatic Nerve/enzymology
- Spinal Cord/chemistry
- Spinal Cord/cytology
- Spinal Cord/enzymology
- Transcription, Genetic/physiology
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- J Honkaniemi
- Neurology Service, VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA 94121, USA
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Li J, Tullai JW, Yu WH, Salton SR. Regulated expression during development and following sciatic nerve injury of mRNAs encoding the receptor tyrosine phosphatase HPTPzeta/RPTPbeta. BRAIN RESEARCH. MOLECULAR BRAIN RESEARCH 1998; 60:77-88. [PMID: 9748513 DOI: 10.1016/s0169-328x(98)00175-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Three major isoforms of the receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase HPTPzeta/RPTPbeta (RPTPzeta/beta) have been previously identified, two with identical transmembrane and intracellular catalytic domains that differ by virtue of a long cysteine-free extracellular region, and a soluble proteoglycan called phosphacan that lacks the transmembrane and carboxy-terminal catalytic domains. To determine whether these RPTPzeta/beta variants are produced by alternative mRNA splicing of a common primary transcript, we performed genomic Southern analysis and characterized several rat cDNA and genomic RPTPzeta/beta clones. These studies indicated that the three major transcripts which encode phosphacan and the two RPTPzeta/beta phosphatase variants are encoded by a single gene, and further that additional alternative mRNA splicing is likely to result in the deletion of a 7 amino acid insert from the intracellular juxtamembrane region of both long and short phosphatase isoforms. Simultaneous quantitation of the three major isoforms by RNase protection analysis indicated that the mRNA encoding phosphacan had the highest relative abundance in the CNS while that encoding the short phosphatase isoform was most abundant relative to the other RPTPzeta/beta variants in the PNS. Following peripheral nerve crush, all RPTPzeta/beta mRNAs, including phosphacan and the phosphatase variants with and without the 21 base insert, were significantly induced in the distal segments of the sciatic nerve with a time course that correlated well with the response of Schwann cells to this injury.
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- J Li
- Fishberg Research Center for Neurobiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Box 1065, One Gustave Levy Place, New York, NY 10029-6574, USA
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Wright MB, Hugo C, Seifert R, Disteche CM, Bowen-Pope DF. Proliferating and migrating mesangial cells responding to injury express a novel receptor protein-tyrosine phosphatase in experimental mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:23929-37. [PMID: 9727007 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.37.23929] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The mesangial cell provides structural support to the kidney glomerulus. A polymerase chain reaction-based cDNA display approach identified a novel protein-tyrosine phosphatase, rPTP-GMC1, whose transcript expression is transiently and dramatically up-regulated during the period of mesangial cell migration and proliferation that follows mesangial cell injury in the anti-Thy 1 model of mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis in the rat. In situ hybridization analysis confirmed that rPTP-GMC1 mRNA is up-regulated specifically by mesangial cells responding to the injury and is not detectable in other cells in the kidney or in many normal tissues. In cell culture, rPTP-GMC1 is expressed by mesangial cells but not by glomerular endothelial or epithelial cells (podocytes). The longest transcript (7.5 kilobases) encodes a receptor-like protein-tyrosine phosphatase consisting of a single catalytic domain, a transmembrane segment, and 18 fibronectin type III-like repeats in the extracellular segment. A splice variant predicts a truncated molecule missing the catalytic domain. rPTP-GMC1 maps to human chromosome 12q15 and to the distal end of mouse chromosome 10. The predicted structure of rPTP-GMC1 and its pattern of expression in vivo and in culture suggest that it plays a role in regulating the adhesion and migration of mesangial cells in response to injury.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Chromosome Mapping
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12
- Consensus Sequence
- DNA, Complementary
- Disease Models, Animal
- Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic
- Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative/enzymology
- Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative/pathology
- Humans
- Kidney Glomerulus/enzymology
- Kidney Glomerulus/injuries
- Kidney Glomerulus/pathology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muridae
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/biosynthesis
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar
- Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 3
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
- Transcription, Genetic
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- M B Wright
- Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98105-7470, USA
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Zhang M, Stauffacher CV, Lin D, Van Etten RL. Crystal structure of a human low molecular weight phosphotyrosyl phosphatase. Implications for substrate specificity. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:21714-20. [PMID: 9705307 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.34.21714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The low molecular weight phosphotyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) constitute a distinctive class of phosphotyrosine phosphatases that is widely distributed among vertebrate and invertebrate organisms. In vertebrates, two isoenzymes of these low molecular weight PTPases are commonly expressed. The two human isoenzymes, HCPTPA and HCPTPB, differ in an alternatively spliced sequence (residues 40-73) referred to as the variable loop, resulting in isoenzymes that have different substrate specificities and inhibitor/activator responses. We present here the x-ray crystallographic structure of a human low molecular weight PTPase solved by molecular replacement to 2.2 A. The structure of human low molecular weight PTPase is compared with a structure representing the other isoenzyme in this PTPase class, in each case with a sulfonate inhibitor bound to the active site. Possible aromatic residue interactions with the phosphotyrosine substrate are proposed from an examination of the binding site of the inhibitors. Differences are observed in the variable loop region, which forms one wall and the floor of a long crevice leading from the active-site loop. A set of residues lying along this crevice (amino acids 49, 50, and 53) is suggested to be responsible for differences in substrate specificity in these two enzymes.
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- M Zhang
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1393, USA
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- A Weiss
- Department of Medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, 94143-0795, USA
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Wishart MJ, Dixon JE. Gathering STYX: phosphatase-like form predicts functions for unique protein-interaction domains. Trends Biochem Sci 1998; 23:301-6. [PMID: 9757831 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0004(98)01241-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The effects of tyrosine phosphorylation are manifested and regulated through protein domains that bind to specific phosphotyrosine motifs. STYX is a unique modular domain found within proteins implicated in mediating the effects of tyrosine phosphorylation in vivo. Individual STYX domains are not catalytically active; however, they resemble protein tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) domains and, like PTPs, contain core sequences that recognize phosphorylated substrates. Thus, the STYX domain adds to the repertoire of modular domains that can mediate intracellular signaling in response to protein phosphorylation.
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- M J Wishart
- Dept of Physiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0606, USA
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Felberg J, Johnson P. Characterization of recombinant CD45 cytoplasmic domain proteins. Evidence for intramolecular and intermolecular interactions. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:17839-45. [PMID: 9651387 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.28.17839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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CD45 is a transmembrane two-domain tyrosine phosphatase required for efficient signal transduction initiated by lymphocyte antigen receptors. As with most transmembrane two-domain phosphatases, the role of the second phosphatase domain is unclear. In this study, recombinant CD45 cytoplasmic domain proteins purified from bacteria were used to evaluate the function of the individual phosphatase domains. A recombinant protein expressing the membrane-proximal region, first phosphatase domain, and spacer region of CD45 (rD1) was catalytically active and found to exist primarily as a dimer. In contrast to this, a recombinant protein expressing the spacer region, the second phosphatase domain and the carboxy tail of CD45 (rD2) existed as a monomer and had no catalytic activity against any of the substrates tested. Comparison of rD1 with the recombinant protein expressing the entire cytoplasmic domain of CD45 (rD1/D2) indicated that rD1/D2 was 2-3-fold more catalytically active, was more thermostable, and existed primarily as a monomer. Limited trypsin digestion of rD1/D2 provided evidence for a noncovalent association between an N-terminal 27-kDa fragment and a C-terminal 53-kDa fragment, suggesting an intramolecular interaction. Furthermore, rD1 was found to specifically associate with rD2 in an in vitro binding assay. Taken together, these data provide evidence for an intramolecular interaction occurring in the cytoplasmic domain of CD45. In the absence of the C-terminal region containing the second phosphatase domain, intermolecular interactions occur, resulting in dimer formation.
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- J Felberg
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 1Z3, Canada
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Barford D, Das AK, Egloff MP. The structure and mechanism of protein phosphatases: insights into catalysis and regulation. ANNUAL REVIEW OF BIOPHYSICS AND BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE 1998; 27:133-64. [PMID: 9646865 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.27.1.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 502] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Eukaryotic protein phosphatases are structurally and functionally diverse enzymes that are represented by three distinct gene families. Two of these, the PPP and PPM families, dephosphorylate phosphoserine and phosphothreonine residues, whereas the protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) dephosphorylate phosphotyrosine amino acids. A subfamily of the PTPs, the dual-specificity phosphatases, dephosphorylate all three phosphoamino acids. Within each family, the catalytic domains are highly conserved, with functional diversity endowed by regulatory domains and subunits. The protein Ser/Thr phosphatases are metalloenzymes and dephosphorylate their substrates in a single reaction step using a metal-activated nucleophilic water molecule. In contrast, the PTPs catalyze dephosphorylation by use of a cysteinyl-phosphate enzyme intermediate. The crystal structures of a number of protein phosphatases have been determined, enabling us to understand their catalytic mechanisms and the basis for substrate recognition and to begin to provide insights into molecular mechanisms of protein phosphatase regulation.
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- D Barford
- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Desmarais S, Jia Z, Ramachandran C. Inhibition of protein tyrosine phosphatases PTP1B and CD45 by sulfotyrosyl peptides. Arch Biochem Biophys 1998; 354:225-31. [PMID: 9637730 DOI: 10.1006/abbi.1998.0691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Sulfotyrosyl peptides corresponding to the known high-affinity substrate phosphotyrosyl peptide sequences in casein and the autophosphorylation sites of insulin receptor and EGF receptor were investigated as inhibitors of protein tyrosine phosphatases PTP1B and CD45. These peptides inhibit both PTP1B and CD45 in the micromolar range competitively and reversibly. The elements required for inhibition were investigated by truncation and substitution of these peptides. Acidic residues N-terminal to the sulfotyrosyl residues are essential for high-affinity binding to PTP1B. The recognition elements required for inhibition of PTP1B and CD45 are different and this suggests the possibility of identifying selective active-site-directed inhibitors for these enzymes.
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- S Desmarais
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Merck Frosst Center for Therapeutic Research, Dorval, Pointe-Claire, H9R 4P8, Canada
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Bell SD, Denu JM, Dixon JE, Ellington AD. RNA molecules that bind to and inhibit the active site of a tyrosine phosphatase. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:14309-14. [PMID: 9603938 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.23.14309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) are essential proteins in many cellular processes. In vitro selection was used to evolve high affinity RNA aptamers to the Yersinia PTPase from two random pools varying in length. Selected aptamers from the two different pools share a 21-residue conserved sequence. They bind to their target with dissociation constants of 18 and 28 nM and inhibit the enzyme with IC50 values of 10 and 35 nM, but do not bind a related PTPase. Modification of the PTPase's active site cysteine with the alkylating agent iodoacetate results in a loss of binding affinity. These experiments suggest that the selected aptamers act by binding at or near the active site and might therefore be useful in defining the interactions between PTPases and their targets.
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- S D Bell
- Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
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During neural development, cells interact dynamically with each other and with the extracellular matrix, using cell signaling to control differentiation, axonogenesis, and survival. Enzymes that regulate protein tyrosine phosphorylation often lie at the core of such cell signaling. Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) are recognized as being of central importance here, and a growing family of PTPases are now known to be expressed in embryonic neurons and glia. Both receptor-like and cytoplasmic enzymes have been identified. The receptor family includes immunoglobulin superfamily members that influence cell-cell adhesion, proteoglycans that control neurite growth, and enzymes in Drosophila that regulate axon guidance and target cell recognition. Cytoplasmic PTPases are implicated in nerve cell commitment and potentially in the regulation of cell survival. This review outlines what we currently know about PTPases in the nervous system and presents concepts concerning their possible modes of action.
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- A Stoker
- Department of Human Anatomy, University of Oxford, UK.
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Fauman EB, Cogswell JP, Lovejoy B, Rocque WJ, Holmes W, Montana VG, Piwnica-Worms H, Rink MJ, Saper MA. Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of the human cell cycle control phosphatase, Cdc25A. Cell 1998; 93:617-25. [PMID: 9604936 DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81190-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 215] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cdc25 phosphatases activate the cell division kinases throughout the cell cycle. The 2.3 A structure of the human Cdc25A catalytic domain reveals a small alpha/beta domain with a fold unlike previously described phosphatase structures but identical to rhodanese, a sulfur-transfer protein. Only the active-site loop, containing the Cys-(X)5-Arg motif, shows similarity to the tyrosine phosphatases. In some crystals, the catalytic Cys-430 forms a disulfide bond with the invariant Cys-384, suggesting that Cdc25 may be self-inhibited during oxidative stress. Asp-383, previously proposed to be the general acid, instead serves a structural role, forming a conserved buried salt-bridge. We propose that Glu-431 may act as a general acid. Structure-based alignments suggest that the noncatalytic domain of the MAP kinase phosphatases will share this topology, as will ACR2, a eukaryotic arsenical resistance protein.
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- E B Fauman
- Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1055, USA.
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Kokel M, Borland CZ, DeLong L, Horvitz HR, Stern MJ. clr-1 encodes a receptor tyrosine phosphatase that negatively regulates an FGF receptor signaling pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genes Dev 1998; 12:1425-37. [PMID: 9585503 PMCID: PMC316843 DOI: 10.1101/gad.12.10.1425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Receptor tyrosine phosphatases have been implicated in playing important roles in cell signaling events by their ability to regulate the level of protein tyrosine phosphorylation. Although the catalytic activity of their phosphatase domains has been well established, the biological roles of these molecules are, for the most part, not well understood. Here we show that the Caenorhabditis elegans protein CLR-1 (CLeaR) is a receptor tyrosine phosphatase (RTP) with a complex extracellular region and two intracellular phosphatase domains. Mutations in clr-1 result in a dramatic Clr phenotype that we have used to study the physiological requirements for the CLR-1 RTP. We show that the phosphatase activity of the membrane-proximal domain is essential for the in vivo function of CLR-1. By contrast, we present evidence that the membrane-distal domain is not required to prevent the Clr phenotype in vivo. The Clr phenotype of clr-1 mutants is mimicked by activation of the EGL-15 fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) and is suppressed by mutations that reduce or eliminate the activity of egl-15. Our data strongly indicate that CLR-1 attenuates the action of an FGFR-mediated signaling pathway by dephosphorylation.
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MESH Headings
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- COS Cells
- Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics
- Caenorhabditis elegans/physiology
- Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
- Chromosomes, Artificial, Yeast
- Consensus Sequence
- DNA, Complementary/genetics
- DNA, Helminth/genetics
- Escherichia coli
- Genes, Helminth
- Genes, Suppressor
- Genetic Heterogeneity
- Helminth Proteins/genetics
- Helminth Proteins/physiology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phenotype
- Phosphorylation
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/genetics
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/physiology
- Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases
- Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor/genetics
- Receptors, Fibroblast Growth Factor/physiology
- Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
- Sequence Alignment
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Signal Transduction/genetics
- Signal Transduction/physiology
- Structure-Activity Relationship
- Temperature
- Transfection
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- M Kokel
- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Genetics, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8005, USA
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Wallace MJ, Fladd C, Batt J, Rotin D. The second catalytic domain of protein tyrosine phosphatase delta (PTP delta) binds to and inhibits the first catalytic domain of PTP sigma. Mol Cell Biol 1998; 18:2608-16. [PMID: 9566880 PMCID: PMC110640 DOI: 10.1128/mcb.18.5.2608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The LAR family protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs), including LAR, PTP delta, and PTP sigma, are transmembrane proteins composed of a cell adhesion molecule-like ectodomain and two cytoplasmic catalytic domains: active D1 and inactive D2. We performed a yeast two-hybrid screen with the first catalytic domain of PTP sigma (PTP sigma-D1) as bait to identify interacting regulatory proteins. Using this screen, we identified the second catalytic domain of PTP delta (PTP delta-D2) as an interactor of PTP sigma-D1. Both yeast two-hybrid binding assays and coprecipitation from mammalian cells revealed strong binding between PTP sigma-D1 and PTP delta-D2, an association which required the presence of the wedge sequence in PTP sigma-D1, a sequence recently shown to mediate D1-D1 homodimerization in the phosphatase RPTP alpha. This interaction was not reciprocal, as PTP delta-D1 did not bind PTP sigma-D2. Addition of a glutathione S-transferase (GST)-PTP delta-D2 fusion protein (but not GST alone) to GST-PTP sigma-D1 led to approximately 50% inhibition of the catalytic activity of PTP sigma-D1, as determined by an in vitro phosphatase assay against p-nitrophenylphosphate. A similar inhibition of PTP sigma-D1 activity was obtained with coimmunoprecipitated PTP delta-D2. Interestingly, the second catalytic domains of LAR (LAR-D2) and PTP sigma (PTP sigma-D2), very similar in sequence to PTP delta-D2, bound poorly to PTP sigma-D1. PTP delta-D1 and LAR-D1 were also able to bind PTP delta-D2, but more weakly than PTP sigma-D1, with a binding hierarchy of PTP sigma-D1 >> PTP delta-D1 > LAR-D1. These results suggest that association between PTP sigma-D1 and PTP delta-D2, possibly via receptor heterodimerization, provides a negative regulatory function and that the second catalytic domains of this and likely other receptor PTPs, which are often inactive, may function instead to regulate the activity of the first catalytic domains.
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- M J Wallace
- Division of Respiratory Research, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- H Yakura
- Dept of Microbiology and Immunology, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute for Neuroscience, Japan
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Hunter T. The Croonian Lecture 1997. The phosphorylation of proteins on tyrosine: its role in cell growth and disease. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1998; 353:583-605. [PMID: 9602534 PMCID: PMC1692245 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 302] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The reversible phosphorylation of tyrosines in proteins plays a key role in regulating many different processes in eukaryotic organisms, such as growth control, cell cycle control, differentiation cell shape and movement, gene transcription, synaptic transmission, and insulin action. Phosphorylation of proteins is brought about by enzymes called protein-tyrosine kinases that add phosphate to specific tyrosines in target proteins; phosphate is removed from phosphorylated tyrosines by enzymes called protein-tyrosine phosphatases. Phosphorylated tyrosines are recognized by specialized binding domains on other proteins, and such interactions are used to initiate intracellular signaling pathways. Currently, more than 95 protein-tyrosine kinases and more than 55 protein-tyrosine phosphatase genes are known in Homo sapiens. Aberrant tyrosine phosphorylation is a hallmark of many types of cancer and other human diseases. Drugs are being developed that antagonize the responsible protein-tyrosine kinases and phosphatases in order to combat these diseases.
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- T Hunter
- Molecular Biology and Virology Laboratory, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Zhang ZY. Protein-tyrosine phosphatases: biological function, structural characteristics, and mechanism of catalysis. Crit Rev Biochem Mol Biol 1998; 33:1-52. [PMID: 9543627 DOI: 10.1080/10409239891204161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPases) superfamily consists of tyrosine-specific phosphatases, dual specificity phosphatases, and the low-molecular-weight phosphatases. They are modulators of signal transduction pathways that regulate numerous cell functions. Malfunction of PTPases have been linked to a number of oncogenic and metabolic disease states, and PTPases are also employed by microbes and viruses for pathogenicity. There is little sequence similarity among the three subfamilies of phosphatases. Yet, three-dimensional structural data show that they share similar conserved structural elements, namely, the phosphate-binding loop encompassing the PTPase signature motif (H/V)C(X)5R(S/T) and an essential general acid/base Asp residue on a surface loop. Biochemical experiments demonstrate that phosphatases in the PTPase superfamily utilize a common mechanism for catalysis going through a covalent thiophosphate intermediate that involves the nucleophilic Cys residue in the PTPase signature motif. The transition states for phosphoenzyme intermediate formation and hydrolysis are dissociative in nature and are similar to those of the solution phosphate monoester reactions. One strategy used by these phosphatases for transition state stabilization is to neutralize the developing negative charge in the leaving group. A conformational change that is restricted to the movement of a flexible loop occurs during the catalytic cycle of the PTPases. However, the relationship between loop dynamics and enzyme catalysis remains to be established. The nature and identity of the rate-limiting step in the PTPase catalyzed reaction requires further investigation and may be dependent on the specific experimental conditions such as temperature, pH, buffer, and substrate used. In-depth kinetic and structural analysis of a representative number of phosphatases from each group of the PTPase superfamily will most likely continue to yield insightful mechanistic information that may be applicable to the rest of the family members.
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- Z Y Zhang
- Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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Muda M, Theodosiou A, Gillieron C, Smith A, Chabert C, Camps M, Boschert U, Rodrigues N, Davies K, Ashworth A, Arkinstall S. The mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase-3 N-terminal noncatalytic region is responsible for tight substrate binding and enzymatic specificity. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:9323-9. [PMID: 9535927 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.15.9323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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We have reported recently that the dual specificity mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase-3 (MKP-3) elicits highly selective inactivation of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) class of mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases (Muda, M., Theodosiou, A., Rodrigues, N., Boschert, U., Camps, M., Gillieron, C., Davies, K., Ashworth, A., and Arkinstall, S. (1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 27205-27208). We now show that MKP-3 enzymatic specificity is paralleled by tight binding to both ERK1 and ERK2 while, in contrast, little or no interaction with either c-Jun N-terminal kinase/stress activated protein kinase (JNK/SAPK) or p38 MAP kinases was detected. Further study revealed that the N-terminal noncatalytic domain of MKP-3 (MKP-3DeltaC) binds both ERK1 and ERK2, while the C-terminal MKP-3 catalytic core (MKP-3DeltaN) fails to precipitate either of these MAP kinases. A chimera consisting of the N-terminal half of MKP-3 with the C-terminal catalytic core of M3-6 also bound tightly to ERK1 but not to JNK3/SAPKbeta. Consistent with a role for N-terminal binding in determining MKP-3 specificity, at least 10-fold higher concentrations of purified MKP-3DeltaN than full-length MKP-3 is required to inhibit ERK2 activity. In contrast, both MKP-3DeltaN and full-length MKP-3 inactivate JNK/SAPK and p38 MAP kinases at similarly high concentrations. Also, a chimera of the M3-6 N terminus with the MKP-3 catalytic core which fails to bind ERK elicits non selective inactivation of ERK1 and JNK3/SAPKbeta. Together, these observations suggest that the physiological specificity of MKP-3 for inactivation of ERK family MAP kinases reflects tight substrate binding by its N-terminal domain.
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- M Muda
- Serono Pharmaceutical Research Institute, CH-1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland
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Peles E, Schlessinger J, Grumet M. Multi-ligand interactions with receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase beta: implications for intercellular signaling. Trends Biochem Sci 1998; 23:121-4. [PMID: 9584610 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0004(98)01195-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase beta (RPTP beta) shows structural and functional similarity to cell adhesion molecules (CAMs). It binds to several neuronal CAMs and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins that combine to form cell-recognition complexes. Here, the authors discuss the implications of such complexes for intercellular signaling, and the regulation of RPTP activity by cell-cell and cell-ECM contact.
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- E Peles
- Dept of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) constitute a diverse family of intracellular and transmembrane proteins. Expression data and recent genetic analyses indicate that many PTPs play important roles in different aspects of nervous system development. Although PTP mechanisms are still poorly understood, current data suggest considerable complexity in these signaling pathways.
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- D Van Vactor
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Barford D, Neel BG. Revealing mechanisms for SH2 domain mediated regulation of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2. Structure 1998; 6:249-54. [PMID: 9551546 DOI: 10.1016/s0969-2126(98)00027-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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The crystal structure of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2 reveals the mechanism of auto-inhibition of phosphatase activity by its SH2 domains. Phosphotyrosine peptide stimulation of the phosphatase activity, resulting from peptide binding to the N-terminal SH2 domain, is linked to conformational changes within the protein, including an unprecedented allosteric transition of the N-terminal SH2 domain.
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- D Barford
- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, UK.
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The structure of the SHP-2 tyrosine phosphatase, determined at 2.0 angstroms resolution, shows how its catalytic activity is regulated by its two SH2 domains. In the absence of a tyrosine-phosphorylated binding partner, the N-terminal SH2 domain binds the phosphatase domain and directly blocks its active site. This interaction alters the structure of the N-SH2 domain, disrupting its phosphopeptide-binding cleft. Conversely, interaction of the N-SH2 domain with phosphopeptide disrupts its phosphatase recognition surface. Thus, the N-SH2 domain is a conformational switch; it either binds and inhibits the phosphatase, or it binds phosphoproteins and activates the enzyme. Recognition of bisphosphorylated ligands by the tandem SH2 domains is an integral element of this switch; the C-terminal SH2 domain contributes binding energy and specificity, but it does not have a direct role in activation.
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- P Hof
- Joslin Diabetes Center and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Genetic analysis has enhanced our understanding of the biological roles of many protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs). More recently, studies utilizing both spontaneous mutants and mutants induced by homologous recombination techniques have begun to yield key insights into the role of specific protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) and to suggest how PTKs and PTPs interact. Specific PTPs in Saccharomyces cerevesiae and Schizomyces pombe regulate MAP kinase pathways. Several Drosophila receptor PTPs control axonal targeting pathways, whereas the non-receptor PTP Corkscrew (Csw), plays an essential positive signaling role in multiple developmental pathways directed by receptor PTKs. The vertebrate homolog of Csw, SHP-2, also is required for growth factor signaling and normal development. Finally, very recent studies of other mammalian PTPs suggest that they have critical roles in processes as diverse as hematopoiesis and liver and pituitary development.
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- D Van Vactor
- Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Walsh FS, Doherty P. Neural cell adhesion molecules of the immunoglobulin superfamily: role in axon growth and guidance. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol 1998; 13:425-56. [PMID: 9442880 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.13.1.425] [Citation(s) in RCA: 387] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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NCAM, L1, and DCC--immunoglobulin cell adhesion molecules (Ig CAMs)--are widely expressed during development. Many workers have dismissed a role for such molecules in the control of axonal growth and guidance because they do not show highly restricted expression patterns. Yet evidence from a number of model systems suggests all three CAMs play a role in the development of specific projections in the nervous system. For example, there is a reduction in mossy fiber tracts in the hippocampus of mice that lack NCAM, a requirement for DCC in the response of commissural neurons to a floor plate-derived chemoattractant, and a loss of corticospinal tracts in humans who carry mutations in the L1 gene. The above paradox might be explained by the observation that differential post-translational processing can modulate CAMs function and that alternative splicing can generate functionally distinct isoforms of a CAM. Activation of the FGF tyrosine kinase receptor is required for the responses stimulated by NCAM and L1, and the importance of regulated tyrosine phosphorylation for growth and guidance is underscored by the involvement of receptor tyrosine phosphatases in this process.
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- F S Walsh
- Department of Neuroscience, Smith Kline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, New Frontiers Science Park, Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom.
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Majeti R, Bilwes AM, Noel JP, Hunter T, Weiss A. Dimerization-induced inhibition of receptor protein tyrosine phosphatase function through an inhibitory wedge. Science 1998; 279:88-91. [PMID: 9417031 DOI: 10.1126/science.279.5347.88] [Citation(s) in RCA: 206] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The function and regulation of the receptorlike transmembrane protein tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) are not well understood. Ligand-induced dimerization inhibited the function of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-RPTP CD45 chimera (EGFR-CD45) in T cell signal transduction. Properties of mutated EGFR-CD45 chimeras supported a general model for the regulation of RPTPs, derived from the crystal structure of the RPTPalpha membrane-proximal phosphatase domain. The phosphatase domain apparently forms a symmetrical dimer in which the catalytic site of one molecule is blocked by specific contacts with a wedge from the other.
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- R Majeti
- Department of Microbiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
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Puius YA, Zhao Y, Sullivan M, Lawrence DS, Almo SC, Zhang ZY. Identification of a second aryl phosphate-binding site in protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B: a paradigm for inhibitor design. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:13420-5. [PMID: 9391040 PMCID: PMC28320 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.25.13420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 344] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The structure of the catalytically inactive mutant (C215S) of the human protein-tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) has been solved to high resolution in two complexes. In the first, crystals were grown in the presence of bis-(para-phosphophenyl) methane (BPPM), a synthetic high-affinity low-molecular weight nonpeptidic substrate (Km = 16 microM), and the structure was refined to an R-factor of 18. 2% at 1.9 A resolution. In the second, crystals were grown in a saturating concentration of phosphotyrosine (pTyr), and the structure was refined to an R-factor of 18.1% at 1.85 A. Difference Fourier maps showed that BPPM binds PTP1B in two mutually exclusive modes, one in which it occupies the canonical pTyr-binding site (the active site), and another in which a phosphophenyl moiety interacts with a set of residues not previously observed to bind aryl phosphates. The identification of a second pTyr molecule at the same site in the PTP1B/C215S-pTyr complex confirms that these residues constitute a low-affinity noncatalytic aryl phosphate-binding site. Identification of a second aryl phosphate binding site adjacent to the active site provides a paradigm for the design of tight-binding, highly specific PTP1B inhibitors that can span both the active site and the adjacent noncatalytic site. This design can be achieved by tethering together two small ligands that are individually targeted to the active site and the proximal noncatalytic site.
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- Y A Puius
- Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- L B Justement
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294, USA
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Liang X, Meng W, Niu T, Zhao Z, Zhou GW. Expression, purification, and crystallization of the catalytic domain of protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1. J Struct Biol 1997; 120:201-3. [PMID: 9417985 DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1997.3927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The catalytic domain of SHP-1, a SH2-domain containing protein tyrosine phosphatase, has been crystallized by the vapor diffusion method using polyethylene glycol as the precipitant. The crystals belong to the monoclinic space group P21 with unit cell dimensions a = 42.12 A, b = 87.94 A, c = 43.22 A, alpha = 90.0 degrees, beta = 120.12 degrees, and gamma = 90.0 degrees. There is one catalytic domain of SHP-1 per asymmetric unit. X-ray was diffracted to at least 2.5 A and the crystals are appropriate for high-resolution structure determination.
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- X Liang
- Program in Molecular Medicine, UMASS Medical Center, Worcester, Massachusetts 01605, USA
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Hoffmann KM, Tonks NK, Barford D. The crystal structure of domain 1 of receptor protein-tyrosine phosphatase mu. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:27505-8. [PMID: 9346878 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.44.27505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Receptor-like protein-tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) play important roles in regulating intracellular processes. We have been investigating the regulation and function of RPTPmu, a receptor-like PTP related to the Ig superfamily of cell adhesion molecules. Recently, the crystal structure of a dimer of the membrane proximal domain of RPTPalpha (RPTPalpha D1) was described (Bilwes, A. M., den Hertog, J., Hunter, T., and Noel J. P. (1996) Nature 382, 555-559). Within this crystal structure, the catalytic site of each subunit of the dimer is sterically blocked by the insertion of the N-terminal helix-turn-helix segment of the dyad-related monomer. It was proposed that dimerization would lead to inhibition of catalytic activity and may provide a paradigm for the regulation of the RPTP family. We have determined the crystal structure, to 2.3 A resolution, of RPTPmu D1, which shares 46% sequence identity with that of RPTPalpha D1. Although the tertiary structures of RPTPalpha D1 and RPTPmu D1 are very similar, with a root mean square deviation between equivalent Calpha atoms of 1.1 A, the quaternary structures of these two proteins are different. Neither the catalytic site nor the N-terminal helix-turn-helix segment of RPTPmu D1 participates in protein-protein interactions. The catalytic site of RPTPmu D1 is unhindered and adopts an open conformation similar to that of the cytosolic PTP, PTP1B (Barford, D., Flint, A. J., and Tonks, N. K. (1994) Science 263, 1397-1404). We propose that dimerization-induced modulation of RPTP activity may not be a general feature of this family of enzymes.
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- K M Hoffmann
- Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, Rex Richards Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom
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Altin JG, Sloan EK. The role of CD45 and CD45-associated molecules in T cell activation. Immunol Cell Biol 1997; 75:430-45. [PMID: 9429890 DOI: 10.1038/icb.1997.68] [Citation(s) in RCA: 135] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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CD45 (lymphocyte common antigen) is a receptor-linked protein tyrosine phosphatase that is expressed on all leucocytes, and which plays a crucial role in the function of these cells. On T cells the extracellular domain of CD45 is expressed in several different isoforms, and the particular isoform(s) expressed depends on the particular subpopulation of cell, their state of maturation, and whether or not they have previously been exposed to antigen. It has been established that the expression of CD45 is essential for the activation of T cells via the TCR, and that different CD45 isoforms display a different ability to support T cell activation. Although the tyrosine phosphatase activity of the intracellular region of CD45 has been shown to be crucial for supporting signal transduction from the TCR, the nature of the ligands for the different isoforms of CD45 have been elusive. Moreover, the precise mechanism by which potential ligands may regulate CD45 function is unclear. Interestingly, in T cells CD45 has been shown to associate with numerous molecules, both membrane associated and intracellular; these include components of the TCR-CD3 complex and CD4/CD8. In addition, CD45 is reported to associate with several intracellular protein tyrosine kinases including p56lck and p59fyn of the src family, and ZAP-70 of the Syk family, and with numerous proteins of 29-34 kDa. These CD45-associated molecules may play an important role in regulating CD45 tyrosine phosphatase activity and function. However, although the role of some of the CD45-associated molecules (e.g. CD45-AP and LPAP) has become better understood in recent years, the role of others still remains obscure. This review aims to summarize recent findings on the role of CD45 and CD45-associated molecules in T cell activation, and to highlight issues that seem relevant to ongoing research in this area.
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- J G Altin
- Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
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Taylor GS, Liu Y, Baskerville C, Charbonneau H. The activity of Cdc14p, an oligomeric dual specificity protein phosphatase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is required for cell cycle progression. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:24054-63. [PMID: 9295359 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.38.24054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The essential CDC14 gene of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, encodes a 62-kDa protein containing a sequence that conforms to the active site motif found in all enzymes of the protein tyrosine phosphatase superfamily. Genetic studies suggest that Cdc14p may be involved in the initiation of DNA replication, but its precise cell cycle function is unknown. Recombinant Cdc14p was produced in bacteria, characterized, and shown to be a dual specificity protein phosphatase. Polyanions such as polyglutamate and double-stranded and single-stranded DNA bind to Cdc14p and affect its activity. Native molecular weights of 131,000 and 169,000 determined by two independent methods indicate that recombinant Cdc14p self-associates in vitro to form active oligomers. The catalytically inactive Cdc14p C283S/R289A mutant is not able to suppress the temperature sensitivity of a cdc14-1(ts) mutant nor replace the wild type gene in vivo, demonstrating that phosphatase activity is required for the cell cycle function of Cdc14p. A distinctive COOH-terminal segment (residues 375-551) is rich in Asn and Ser residues, carries a net positive charge, and contains two tandem 21-residue repeats. This COOH-terminal segment is not required for activity, for oligomerization, or for the critical cell cycle function of Cdc14p.
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- G S Taylor
- Department of Biochemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Zondag GC, Moolenaar WH. Receptor protein tyrosine phosphatases: involvement in cell-cell interaction and signaling. Biochimie 1997; 79:477-83. [PMID: 9451448 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9084(97)82739-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Receptor protein tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) represent a relatively new family of cell-surface receptors consisting of a variable, putative ligand-binding ectodomain followed by a single transmembrane segment and one or two intracellular catalytic domains. The RPTPs are thought to transduce extracellular signals by dephosphorylating tyrosine-phosphorylated intracellular substrates. As such, they are the enzymatic counterparts of the well studied receptor tyrosine kinases. However, little is known about the signaling mechanisms and biological functions of the RPTPs. Recent studies show that the extracellular domain of certain RPTPs can mediate either homophilic or heterophilic interactions and suggest a role in cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion, possibly via an action on catenins. This review will focus on the role of RPTPs in cell-cell interaction and the possible biological implications.
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- G C Zondag
- The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Division of Cellular Biochemistry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Lorenzo HK, Farber D, Germain V, Acuto O, Alzari PM. The MBP fusion protein restores the activity of the first phosphatase domain of CD45. FEBS Lett 1997; 411:231-5. [PMID: 9271211 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(97)00703-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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CD45 is a receptor-like protein tyrosine phosphatase critically involved in the regulation of initial effector functions in B- and T-cells. The protein comprises two phosphatase (PTP) domains in its cytoplasmic region. However, whether each PTP domain has enzyme activity by itself or whether both domains are required to build up a functional enzyme is unclear. We have studied different constructions of human CD45 comprising the two PTP domains, both separately and as a single protein, fused to maltose-binding protein (MBP). In apparent contrast with previous studies, we show that the first PTP domain of CD45 (when fused to MBP) may be a viable phosphatase in the absence of the second domain. Phosphatase activity resides in the monomeric form of the protein and is lost after proteolytic cleavage of the fusion partner, indicating that MBP specifically activates the first PTP domain. Furthermore, changes in the optimal pH for activity with respect to wild-type CD45 suggest that protein-protein interactions involving residues in the neighbourhood of the catalytic site mediate enzyme activation.
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- H K Lorenzo
- Unité d'Immunologie Structurale, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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Many lymphocyte signaling pathways are regulated by protein tyrosyl phosphorylation, which is controlled by protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs). Substantial progress has been made in defining the functions of lymphocyte PTPs. Individual PTPs can enhance or diminish cell signaling levels. The transmembrane PTP CD45 is a key positive element in multiple lymphocyte signaling pathways in vivo. New insights into the function of individual CD45 isoforms have emerged. Anti-CD45 antibodies with potent immunosuppressant activity have been identified, suggesting that CD45 may be a propitious target for drug design. Progress has also been made in elucidating the function and targets of specific nontransmembrane PTPs, particularly those with Src homology 2 domains.
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- B G Neel
- Cancer Biology Program, Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, HIM 1047, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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