Members of the protein-tyrosine phosphatase superfamily cooperate with protein kinases to regulate cell proliferation and differentiation. This superfamily is separated into two families based on the substrate that is dephosphorylated. One family, the dual specificity phosphatases (DSPs) acts on both phosphotyrosine and phosphoserine/threonine residues. This gene encodes different but related DSP proteins through the use of non-overlapping open reading frames, alternate splicing, and presumed different transcription promoters. Expression of the distinct proteins from this gene has been found to be tissue specific and the proteins may be involved in postnatal development of specific tissues. A protein encoded by the upstream ORF was found in skeletal muscle, whereas the encoded protein from the downstream ORF was found only in testis. In mouse, a similar pattern of expression was found. Multiple alternatively spliced transcript variants were described, but the full-length sequence of only some were determined. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008] (from
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Kim et al., Taejŏn, South Korea. In Proteins, 2007
Here, we report the crystal structure of human TMDP at a resolution of 2.4 A. In spite of high sequence similarity with other DSPs, the crystal structure of TMDP shows distinct structural motifs and surface propertie
Tonks et al., New York City, United States. In J Biol Chem, 2004
expression of both MDSP and TMDP proteins was markedly increased at the 3rd week after birth and continued to increase gradually into adulthood, implying that the physiological functions of both DSPs are specific to the mature/late-developing organs
Kikuchi et al., Sapporo, Japan. In J Biochem, 2002
We have identified a novel dual-specificity phosphatase (DSP), called LDP-2 (low-molecular-mass DSP-2), composed of 220 amino acid residues showing high sequence homology to VHR and LDP-1/TMDP, which belong to a family of DSPs with low molecular masses.
The oxygen uptake which is observed when Rhodospirillum rubrum chromatophores are illuminated under air and in the presence of reduced 2, 6-dichlorophenolindophenol (DCIP), 2, 3, 5, 6-tetra-methyl-P-phenylenediamine (diaminodurene, DAD) or N, N'-tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine (TMDP) depends on the electron-donor concentration according to the equation of Michaelis-Menten.