PtpZ

• Description: phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase, antagonist to PtkA
  
  

Gene name	ptpZ
Synonyms	ywqE
Essential	no
Product	phosphotyrosine protein phosphatase, antagonist to PtkA
Function	protein tyrosine dephosphorylation
MW, pI	28 kDa, 6.66
Gene length, protein length	762 bp, 254 aa
Immediate neighbours	ugd, ptkA
Get the DNA and protein sequences (Barbe et al., 2009)
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The gene

Basic information

• Locus tag: BSU36240

Database entries

• DBTBS entry: no entry

• SubtiList entry: [1]

The protein

Basic information/ Evolution

• Catalyzed reaction/ biological activity: Protein tyrosine phosphate + H₂O = protein tyrosine + phosphate (according to Swiss-Prot), dephosphorylation of Ugd, TuaD and PtkA PubMed

• Protein family: cpsB/capC family (according to Swiss-Prot)

• Paralogous protein(s):

Extended information on the protein

• Kinetic information:

• Domains:

• Modification:

• Cofactor(s):

• Effectors of protein activity:

• Interactions:

• Localization:

Database entries

• Structure:

• UniProt: P96717

• KEGG entry: [2]

• E.C. number: 3.1.3.48

Expression and regulation

• Operon: tkmA-ptkA-ptpZ-ugd PubMed

• Sigma factor: SigA PubMed

• Regulation:

• Regulatory mechanism:
  • DegU-P: transcription repression PubMed
  • AbrB: transcription repression PubMed

• Additional information:

Biological materials

• Mutant:

• Expression vector:

• lacZ fusion:

• GFP fusion:

• two-hybrid system:

• Antibody: