title: Revealing mechanisms for SH2 domain mediated regulation of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2.
abstract: The crystal structure of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-2 reveals the mechanism of auto-inhibition of phosphatase activity by its SH2 domains. Phosphotyrosine peptide stimulation of the phosphatase activity, resulting from peptide binding to the N-terminal SH2 domain, is linked to conformational changes within the protein, including an unprecedented allosteric transition of the N-terminal SH2 domain.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, University of Oxford, UK. davidb@biop.ox.ac.uk
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barford
authors.forename: B G
authors.initials: BG
authors.lastname: Neel
mesh_terms: D004789:Enzyme Activation; D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D054592:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11; D053824:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D054593:SH2 Domain-Containing Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; D015398:Signal Transduction; D018909:src Homology Domains
chemical_list: D047908:Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; D054592:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11; D053824:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6; D017027:Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases; D054593:SH2 Domain-Containing Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases