The reversible modification of cellular proteins by tyrosine phosphorylation is a central mechanism of signal transduction, which controls cell physiological processes, such as proliferation, migration or differentiation in health and disease. Protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and –phosphatases (PTPs) regulate these phosphorylation events in an antagonistic manner. In this thesis the regulation of the receptor protein PTPRK by proteolytic processing was investigated. Thereby, a novel mechanism of PTP regulation was identified, which allows the relocalization of this receptor protein from the cell surface to the nucleus. In a second project, methods and strategies were developed to elucidate the substrate specificity of PTPs with quantitative mass spectrometry. Using this approach it was possible to define a large number of new potential substrate proteins for the phosphatase PTP1B.
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The reversible modification of cellular proteins by tyrosine phosphorylation is a central mechanism of signal transduction, which controls cell physiological processes, such as proliferation, migration or differentiation in health and disease. Protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) and –phosphatases (PTPs) regulate these phosphorylation events in an antagonistic manner. In this thesis the regulation of the receptor protein PTPRK by proteolytic processing was investigated. Thereby, a novel mechanism of...
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