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JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 279, Issue 34, Pages 35768-35774Publisher
AMER SOC BIOCHEMISTRY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M403412200
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA96949] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI55741, AI35603, AI53585, AI48032] Funding Source: Medline
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The smallest active protein-tyrosine phosphatase yet (only 16 kDa) is described here and given the name VHZ for VH1-like member Z because it belongs to the group of small Vaccinia virus VH1-related dual specific phosphatases exemplified by VHR, VHX, and VHY. Human VHZ is remarkably well conserved through evolution as it has species orthologs in frogs, fish, fly, and Archaea. The gene for VHZ, which we designate as DUSP25, is located on human chromosome 1q23.1 and consists of only two coding exons. VHZ is broadly expressed in tissues and cells, including resting blood lymphocytes, Jurkat T cells, HL-60, and RAMOS. In transfected cells, VHZ was located in the cytosol and in other cells also in the nucleoli. Endogenous VHZ showed a similar but more granular distribution. We show that VHZ is an active phosphatase and analyze its structure by computer modeling, which shows that in comparison with the 185-amino acid residue VHR, the 150-residue VHZ is a shortened version of VHR and contains the minimal set of secondary structure elements conserved in all known phosphatases from this class. The surface charge distribution of VHZ differs from that of VHR and is therefore unlikely to dephosphorylate mitogen-activated protein kinases. The remarkably high degree of conservation of VHZ through evolution may indicate a role in some ancient and fundamental physiological process.
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