title: Cloning and characterization of islet cell antigen-related protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTP), a novel receptor-like PTP and autoantigen in insulin-dependent diabetes.
abstract: Cloning of the cDNA encoding a novel human protein- tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) called islet cell antigen-related PTP (IAR) predicts a receptor-like molecule with an extracellular domain of 614 amino acids containing a hydrophobic signal peptide, one potential N-glycosylation site, and an RGDS peptide which is a possible adhesive recognition sequence. The 376-amino acid intracellular region contains a single catalytic domain. Recombinant IAR polypeptide has phosphatase activity. Northern blot analysis shows tissue-specific expression of two IAR transcripts of 5.5 and 3. 7 kilobases, which are most abundant in brain and pancreas. The IAR PTP is homologous in its intracellular region to IA-2, a putative PTP that is an insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) autoantigen. IAR is also reactive with IDDM patient sera. IAR and IA-2 may distinguish different populations of IDDM autoantibodies since they identify overlapping but nonidentical sets of IDDM patients. Thus IAR is likely to be an islet cell antigen useful in the preclinical screening of individuals for risk of IDDM.
authors.affiliation: Cell Regulation Laboratory, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 0511, Republic of Singapore.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cui
authors.forename: W P
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: DeAizpurua
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Schmidli
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Pallen
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001324:Autoantigens / Q000235:genetics*; D001483:Base Sequence; D002384:Catalysis; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000097:blood / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D054562:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D054635:Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 8; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D001324:Autoantigens; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D008565:Membrane Proteins; C102889:PTPRN2 protein, human; D054562:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 1; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; D054635:Receptor-Like Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases, Class 8