DUSP15 explained

Dual specificity protein phosphatase 15 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the DUSP15 gene.^{[1] [2]}

The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the non-receptor class of the protein-tyrosine phosphatase family. The encoded protein has both protein-tyrosine phosphatase activity and serine/threonine-specific phosphatase activity, and therefore is known as a dual specificity phosphatase. Three transcript variants, encoding two different isoforms have been found for this gene.

Further reading

• Yoon TS, Jeong DG, Kim JH . Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of human VHY, a dual-specificity protein phosphatase. . Proteins . 61 . 3 . 694–7 . 2006 . 16170801 . 10.1002/prot.20642 . 28160874 . etal. free .
• Gerhard DS, Wagner L, Feingold EA . The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC). . Genome Res. . 14 . 10B . 2121–7 . 2004 . 15489334 . 10.1101/gr.2596504 . 528928 . etal.
• Ota T, Suzuki Y, Nishikawa T . Complete sequencing and characterization of 21,243 full-length human cDNAs. . Nat. Genet. . 36 . 1 . 40–5 . 2004 . 14702039 . 10.1038/ng1285 . etal. free .
• Strausberg RL, Feingold EA, Grouse LH . Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 99 . 26 . 16899–903 . 2003 . 12477932 . 10.1073/pnas.242603899 . 139241 . 2002PNAS...9916899M . etal. free .
• Deloukas P, Matthews LH, Ashurst J . The DNA sequence and comparative analysis of human chromosome 20. . Nature . 414 . 6866 . 865–71 . 2002 . 11780052 . 10.1038/414865a . 2001Natur.414..865D . etal. free .
• Dias Neto E, Correa RG, Verjovski-Almeida S . Shotgun sequencing of the human transcriptome with ORF expressed sequence tags. . Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. . 97 . 7 . 3491–6 . 2000 . 10737800 . 10.1073/pnas.97.7.3491 . 16267 . 2000PNAS...97.3491D . etal. free .

External links

• PDBe-KB provides an overview of all the structure information available in the PDB for Human Dual specificity protein phosphatase 15

Notes and References

1. Alonso A, Narisawa S, Bogetz J, Tautz L, Hadzic R, Huynh H, Williams S, Gjorloff Wingren A, Bremer MC, Holsinger LJ, Millan JL, Mustelin T . VHY, a novel myristoylated testis-restricted dual specificity protein phosphatase related to VHX . J Biol Chem . 279 . 31 . 32586–91 . Jul 2004 . 15138252 . 10.1074/jbc.M403442200 . free .
2. Web site: Entrez Gene: DUSP15 dual specificity phosphatase 15.