Protein tyrosine phosphatases: From genes, to function, to disease

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 833-846

  Tonks, Nicholas K ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME VARIANT; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE BETA; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE EPSILON; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE KAPPA; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE LAMDA; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE MU; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE RHO; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER; CANCER INHIBITION; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME METABOLISM; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; HUMAN; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; TYROSINE;

EID: 33750299450     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2039     Document Type: Review

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