• Korean Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.62-65
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• 1999

Inorganic phosphate (Pi) in rabbit plasma was found to block completely phosphotyrosine phosphatase (PTPase) activity without affecting the alkaline phosphatase (ALPase) activity. Our results provided that (1) PTPase activity and inhibitor are separated after G-25 gel-filtration. (2) This inhibitor is heat stable and trypsin-resistant and it can be removed by dialysis using 3 Kd cut-off tubing. (3) The elution pattern of the inhibitor is identical to that of Pi, and by performing a seperate run with inorganic phosphate. (4) The PTPase activity was recovered following an incubation with $CaCl_2$ (10 mM).

• BMB Reports
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.386-392
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• 1996

A Saccharomyces cerevisiae Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, PTP1, was expressed from an Escherichia coli expression system and milligram quantities of active PTP1 were purified chromatographically. The substrate specificity of the recombinant PTP1 was probed using synthetic phosphotyrosine-containing peptides corresponding to the regulatory phosphorylation sites of the yeast MAP kinase homologues $Fus3_{176-186}$, $Kss1_{179-189}$, and $Hog1_{170-180}$. Peptide sequences derived from the MAP kinase homologues were chosen arbitrarily as starting points for sequence variation studies even though they are not likely to be candidates for physiological substrates of PTP1. Phosphotyrosyl-$Hog1_{170-180}$ peptide showed a $K_M$ value of 877 ${\mu}M$ and phosphorylated $Kss1_{179-189}$ and $Fus3_{176-186}$ peptides showed lower $K_M$ values of 74 ${\mu}M$ and 51 ${\mu}M$ each. To study the effect of sequence variations of the peptide, amino acids of the undecapeptide $Hog1_{170-180}$ (DPQMTGpYVSTR) were sequentially substituted by an alanine residue. More extensive variations of each amino acid revealed positional importance of each amino acid residue. Based on these results, we derived a peptide sequence (DADEpYDA) that is recognized by PTP1 with an affinity ($K_M$ is 4 ${\mu}M$) significantly higher than that of the peptides derived from the phosphorylation sites of Fus3, Kss1, and Hog1.