title: Expression, purification, and characterization of SH2-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase, SH-PTP2.
abstract: A human protein tyrosine phosphatase containing two src homology 2 (SH2) domains (SH-PTP2) was expressed in Escherichia coli under T7 promoter control and purified to near homogeneity. The purified protein, with molecular mass of 68 kDa on SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was identified as SH-PTP2 by its protein tyrosine phosphatase activity and N-terminal amino acid sequence analysis. Its protein tyrosine phosphatase activity was sensitive to pH and salt concentration. Whereas its optimum pH for the low molecular weight substrate para-nitrophenyl phosphate is 5.6, the pH optima for peptide substrates were shifted toward neutral. With the artificial protein substrate reduced, carboxyamidomethylated, and maleylated lysozyme, it displays 2000-fold lower Km (1.7 microM) and 2.4-fold higher kcat (0.11 s-1) than with para-nitrophenyl phosphate. Among the phosphopeptides from autophosphorylation sites of receptors for epidermal growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor, SH-PTP2 displayed high activity toward phosphopeptides corresponding to pY992 of the epidermal growth factor receptor and pY1009 and pY1021 of the platelet-derived growth factor receptor. In further enzymatic studies with phosphopeptides corresponding to pY1009, SH-PTP2 showed nonlinear Line-weaver-Burk double-reciprocal plots, suggesting that the phosphopeptide corresponding to pY1009 may have a substrate and allosteric effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sugimoto
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Lechleider
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Shoelson
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Neel
authors.forename: C T
authors.initials: CT
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D002852:Chromatography, Ion Exchange; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D066246:ErbB Receptors / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli; D006801:Humans; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000302:isolation & purification; D010748:Phosphopeptides / Q000378:metabolism; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D017479:Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor / Q000378:metabolism; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D013379:Substrate Specificity; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D010748:Phosphopeptides; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D066246:ErbB Receptors; D017479:Receptors, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases