The mechanism of allosteric inhibition of protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B.

As the prototypical member of the PTP family, protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) is an attractive target for therapeutic interventions in type 2 diabetes. The extremely conserved catalytic site of PTP1B renders the design of selective PTP1B inhibitors intractable. Although discovered allosteric...

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Main Authors: Shuai Li, Jingmiao Zhang, Shaoyong Lu, Wenkang Huang, Lv Geng, Qiancheng Shen, Jian Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4022711?pdf=render