Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

The receptor PTPRU is a redox sensitive pseudophosphatase

  • Iain M. Hay,
  • Gareth W. Fearnley,
  • Pablo Rios,
  • Maja Köhn,
  • Hayley J. Sharpe,
  • Janet E. Deane

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17076-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Receptor-linked protein tyrosine phosphatases (RPTPs) usually contain an active membrane proximal domain and an inactive pseudophosphatase domain. Here, the authors characterize an RPTP with two pseudophosphatase domains, providing evidence that it may act as a decoy receptor for substrate sequestration.