PMID- 10347225 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19990701 LR - 20210209 IS - 0021-9258 (Print) IS - 0021-9258 (Linking) VI - 274 IP - 23 DP - 1999 Jun 4 TI - Human PIR1 of the protein-tyrosine phosphatase superfamily has RNA 5'-triphosphatase and diphosphatase activities. PG - 16590-4 AB - A human cDNA was isolated encoding a protein with significant sequence similarity (41% identity) to the BVP RNA 5'-phosphatase from the Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus. This protein is a member of the protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) superfamily and is identical to PIR1, shown by Yuan et al. (Yuan, Y., Da-Ming, L., and Sun, H. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 272, 20347-20353) to be a nuclear protein that can associate with RNA or ribonucleoprotein complexes. We demonstrate that PIR1 removes two phosphates from the 5'-triphosphate end of RNA, but not from mononucleotide triphosphates. The specific activity of PIR1 with RNA is several orders of magnitude greater than that with the best protein substrates examined, suggesting that RNA is its physiological substrate. A 120-amino acid segment C-terminal to the PTP domain is not required for RNA phosphatase activity. We propose that PIR1 and its closest homologs, which include the metazoan mRNA capping enzymes, constitute a subgroup of the PTP family that use RNA as a substrate. FAU - Deshpande, T AU - Deshpande T AD - Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA. FAU - Takagi, T AU - Takagi T FAU - Hao, L AU - Hao L FAU - Buratowski, S AU - Buratowski S FAU - Charbonneau, H AU - Charbonneau H LA - eng SI - GENBANK/AF023917 GR - CA59935/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Biol Chem JT - The Journal of biological chemistry JID - 2985121R RN - EC 2.5.1.18 (Glutathione Transferase) RN - EC 3.1.3.48 (DUSP11 protein, human) RN - EC 3.1.3.48 (Dual-Specificity Phosphatases) RN - EC 3.1.3.48 (Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases) RN - EC 3.6.- (Acid Anhydride Hydrolases) RN - EC 3.6.1.- (RNA triphosphatase) SB - IM MH - Acid Anhydride Hydrolases/*metabolism MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Catalytic Domain MH - Cell Line MH - Dual-Specificity Phosphatases MH - Escherichia coli MH - Glutathione Transferase/genetics/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Mutagenesis, Site-Directed MH - Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/genetics/*metabolism MH - Sequence Alignment EDAT- 1999/05/29 00:00 MHDA- 1999/05/29 00:01 CRDT- 1999/05/29 00:00 PHST- 1999/05/29 00:00 [pubmed] PHST- 1999/05/29 00:01 [medline] PHST- 1999/05/29 00:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1074/jbc.274.23.16590 [doi] AID - S0021-9258(19)73010-5 [pii] PST - ppublish SO - J Biol Chem. 1999 Jun 4;274(23):16590-4. doi: 10.1074/jbc.274.23.16590.