A genomic perspective on protein tyrosine phosphatases: gene structure, pseudogenes, and genetic disease linkage

Andersen, J. N., Jansen, P. G., Echwald, S. M., Mortensen, O. H., Fukada, T., Del Vecchio, R., Tonks, N. K., Moller, N. P. (January 2004) A genomic perspective on protein tyrosine phosphatases: gene structure, pseudogenes, and genetic disease linkage. FASEB J, 18 (1). pp. 8-30. ISSN 1530-6860 (Electronic)

URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14718383
DOI: 10.1096/fj.02-1212rev

Abstract

The protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are now recognized as critical regulators of signal transduction under normal and pathophysiological conditions. In this analysis we have explored the sequence of the human genome to define the composition of the PTP family. Using public and proprietary sequence databases, we discovered one novel human PTP gene and defined chromosomal loci and exon structure of the additional 37 genes encoding known PTP transcripts. Direct orthologs were present in the mouse genome for all 38 human PTP genes. In addition, we identified 12 PTP pseudogenes unique to humans that have probably contaminated previous bioinformatics analysis of this gene family. PCR amplification and transcript sequencing indicate that some PTP pseudogenes are expressed, but their function (if any) is unknown. Furthermore, we analyzed the enhanced diversity generated by alternative splicing and provide predicted amino acid sequences for four human PTPs that are currently defined by fragments only. Finally, we correlated each PTP locus with genetic disease markers and identified 4 PTPs that map to known susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes and 19 PTPs that map to regions frequently deleted in human cancers. We have made our analysis available at http://ptp.cshl.edu or http://science.novonordisk.com/ptp and we hope this resource will facilitate the functional characterization of these key enzymes.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: Amino Acid Sequence Animals Chromosome Mapping Exons Gene Components Genetic Predisposition to Disease Genome, Human Humans Linkage (Genetics) Molecular Sequence Data Protein-Tyrosine-Phosphatase/chemistry/ genetics Pseudogenes Sequence Alignment
Subjects: diseases & disorders > congenital hereditary genetic diseases
diseases & disorders
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > enzymes
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > DNA, RNA structure, function, modification > genes, structure and function
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types
bioinformatics > genomics and proteomics > genetics & nucleic acid processing > protein structure, function, modification > protein types > enzymes > protein tyrosine phosphatase
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Communities: CSHL labs > Tonks lab
Depositing User: Matt Covey
Date: January 2004
Date Deposited: 04 Mar 2013 22:27
Last Modified: 04 Mar 2013 22:27
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/27692

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