Suppressing proton decay in the minimal SO(10) model

We show that in a class of minimal supersymmetric SO(10) models which have been found to be quite successful in predicting neutrino mixings, all proton decay modes can be suppressed by a particular choice of Yukawa textures. The required texture not only fits all lepton and quark masses as well as Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa parameters, but it also predicts neutrino mixing parameter U-e3 and Dirac CP phase sin vertical bar delta(MNS)vertical bar to be 0.07-0.09 and 0.3-0.7, respectively.