Journal
FEBS LETTERS
Volume 589, Issue 9, Pages 951-966Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.03.005
Keywords
Tyrosine phosphatase; Sequence analysis; PTP-central; Model system; Phosphorylation; Biochemical evolution; Drosophila
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- WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center
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Most of our knowledge on protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) is derived from human pathologies and mouse knockout models. These models largely correlate well with human disease phenotypes, but can be ambiguous due to compensatory mechanisms introduced by paralogous genes. Here we present the analysis of the PTP complement of the fruit fly and the complementary view that PTP studies in Drosophila will accelerate our understanding of PTPs in physiological and pathological conditions. With only 44 PTP genes, Drosophila represents a streamlined version of the human complement. Our integrated analysis places the Drosophila PTPs into evolutionary and functional contexts, thereby providing a platform for the exploitation of the fly for PTP research and the transfer of knowledge onto other model systems. (C) 2015 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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