Ciona intestinalis      DSP      PTEN

※ PTEN family introduction

    PTEN (phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome ten) phosphatase is a conserved family of DUSP phosphatase, which could dephosphorylate tyrosine-, serine- and threonine-phosphorylated proteins. PTEN also act as lipid phosphatase, which dephosphorylate D3-phosphorylated inositol phospholopids (1). PTEN negatively regulates PI3 kinase-Akt signaling pathway by converting second messenger phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-triphosphate (PIP3) into phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2). This pathway plays an important role in controlling cell proliferation, growth and survival (2). In addition to its dominant inhibitory activity in the PI3 kinase-Akt pathway, PTEN also possess potential protein phosphatase activity for its sequence similarity with PTP domain and this remains more understood.

Reference
1. Patterson, K.I., Brummer, T., O'Brien, P.M. and Daly, R.J. (2009) Dual-specificity phosphatases: critical regulators with diverse cellular targets. Biochem J, 418, 475-489. PMID: 19228121
2. Wang, X. and Jiang, X. (2008) PTEN: a default gate-keeping tumor suppressor with a versatile tail. Cell Res, 18, 807-816. PMID: 18626510


There are 3 genes.  Reviewed (0 or Unreviewed (3

No.StatusEKPD IDGene IDGene Name
1
EPS-CII-00032
ENSCING00000011484
CI-VSP; vsp
2
EPS-CII-00033
ENSCING00000007520
LOC100186907; CIN.50835
3
EPS-CII-00031
ENSCING00000002379
LOC100182434