A Unified Nomenclature and Amino Acid Numbering for Human PTEN

Translated title of the contribution: A Unified Nomenclature and Amino Acid Numbering for Human PTEN

Rafael Pulido, Suzanne J. Baker, Joao T. Barata, Arkaitz Carracedo, Victor J. Cid, Ian D. Chin-Sang, Vrushank Dave, J. den Hertog, Peter Devreotes, Britta J. Eickholt, Charis Eng, Frank B. Furnari, Maria Magdalena Georgescu, Arne Gericke, Benjamin Hopkins, Xeujun Jiang, Seung Rock Lee, Mathias Loesche, Prerna Malaney, Xavier Matias-GuiuMaria Molina, Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Ramon Parsons, Paolo Pinton, Carmen Rivas, Rafael M. Rocha, Manuel S. Rodriguez, Alonzo H. Ross, Manuel Serrano, Vuk Stambolic, Bangyan Stiles, Akira Suzuki, Seong Seng Tan, Nicholas K. Tonks, Lloyd C. Trotman, Nicolas Wolff, Rudiger Woscholski, W. Wu, Nicholas R. Leslie

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Abstract

The tumor suppressor PTEN is a major brake for cell transformation, mainly due to its phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate [PI(3,4,5)P-3] phosphatase activity that directly counteracts the oncogenicity of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K). PTEN mutations are frequent in tumors and in the germ line of patients with tumor predisposition or with neurological or cognitive disorders, which makes the PTEN gene and protein a major focus of interest in current biomedical research. After almost two decades of intense investigation on the 403-residue-long PTEN protein, a previously uncharacterized form of PTEN has been discovered that contains 173 amino-terminal extra amino acids, as a result of an alternate translation initiation site. To facilitate research in the field and to avoid ambiguities in the naming and identification of PTEN amino acids from publications and databases, we propose here a unifying nomenclature and amino acid numbering for this longer form of PTEN
Translated title of the contributionA Unified Nomenclature and Amino Acid Numbering for Human PTEN
Original languageUndefined/Unknown
Pages (from-to)pe15
Number of pages1
JournalScience Signaling
Volume7
Issue number332
Publication statusPublished - 2014

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