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Dual specificity phosphatase 6
PDB rendering based on 1hzm. The Protein Data Bank ( PDB) is a repository for 3-D structural data of Proteins and Nucleic acids These data typically obtained by X-ray crystallography
Available structures: 1hzm, 1mkp
Identifiers
Symbol(s) DUSP6; MKP3; PYST1
External IDs OMIM: 602748 MGI1914853 HomoloGene55621
RNA expression pattern

More reference expression data

Orthologs
Human Mouse
Entrez 1848 67603
Ensembl ENSG00000139318 ENSMUSG00000019960
Uniprot Q16828 Q3U786
Refseq NM_001946 (mRNA)
NP_001937 (protein)
NM_026268 (mRNA)
NP_080544 (protein)
Location Chr 12: 88.27 - 88.27 Mb Chr 10: 98.69 - 98.7 Mb
Pubmed search [1] [2]

Dual specificity phosphatase 6, also known as DUSP6, is a human gene. The Human Genome Organisation (HUGO is an organization involved in the Human Genome Project, a project about mapping the human genome The Mouse Genome Informatics (MGI website is run by The Jackson Laboratory. HomoloGene, a tool of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI is a system for automated detection of homologs (similarity attributable to descent The Entrez Global Query Cross-Database Search System is a powerful Federated search engine or Web portal that allows users to search many discrete Health sciences Ensembl is a joint scientific project between the European Bioinformatics Institute and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, which was launched in 1999 in response to the imminent UniProt is the uni versal prot ein resource a central repository of Protein data created by combining Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL PubMed is a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of citations and abstracts of biomedical research articles History See also History of genetics The existence of genes was first suggested by Gregor Mendel (1822-1884 who in the 1860s studied inheritance [1]

The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the dual specificity protein phosphatase subfamily. These phosphatases inactivate their target kinases by dephosphorylating both the phosphoserine/threonine and phosphotyrosine residues. They negatively regulate members of the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase superfamily (MAPK/ERK, SAPK/JNK, p38), which are associated with cellular proliferation and differentiation. Different members of the family of dual specificity phosphatases show distinct substrate specificities for various MAP kinases, different tissue distribution and subcellular localization, and different modes of inducibility of their expression by extracellular stimuli. This gene product inactivates ERK2, is expressed in a variety of tissues with the highest levels in heart and pancreas, and unlike most other members of this family, is localized in the cytoplasm. Two transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been found for this gene. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b Entrez Gene: DUSP6 dual specificity phosphatase 6.

Further reading


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