The Pyst2-L phosphatase is involved in cell-crowding

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• 作者：Orlev Levy-Nissenbaum ; Shlomit Ben-Menachem ; Orit Sagi-Assif and Isaac P. Witz
• 关键词：Pyst2 ; X17c ; Yvh1p ; Pyst2-L ; Dual-specificity phosphatases
• 刊名：Immunology Letters
• 出版年：2006
• 出版时间：15 April 2006
• 年：2006
• 卷：104
• 期：1-2
• 页码：138-145
• 全文大小：312 K

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The dual-specificity phosphatase Pyst2-L was found to be over expressed in leukocytes derived from AML and ALL patients as well as in certain other solid tumors and lymphoblastoid cell lines. Pyst2-L, binds and dephosphorylates both pERKs and pJNKs proteins, and thus, plays a role in regulating the MAP kinase signaling pathway. In the present study, a comparative genomic application was used and sequence analysis of multi-organisms databases were searched in order to identify genes homologous to Pyst2-L. The Xenopus laevis MAP kinase phosphatase X17c gene and the Yeast nitrogen starvation-induced protein phosphatase Yvh1p gene were revealed to be highly homologous with Pyst2-L. Both X17c and Yvh1p genes play a role in cell cycle regulation. A down regulated expression of the Yvh1p gene occurred inSaccharomyces cerevisiae that were synchronized to the G2-phase of the cell cycle by α-factor. In conformity with this result, a reduction in Pyst2-L expression levels was observed in G2-phase-synchronized Human K562 cells. Finally, we were able to show that cells in highly crowded cultures express high levels of the Pyst2-L phosphatase. These observations may indicate that low levels of the Pyst2-L phosphatase are essential for the G2-phase of the cell cycle and that this phosphatase might play a role in signaling cascades induced by cellular crowding.