GLEPP1, a renal glomerular epithelial cell (podocyte) membrane protein-tyrosine phosphatase. Identification, molecular cloning, and characterization in rabbit.
GLEPP1, a renal glomerular epithelial cell (podocyte) membrane protein-tyrosine phosphatase. Identification, molecular cloning, and characterization in rabbit.
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1994-08
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P. Thomas;Bryan L. Wharram;M. Goyal;J. Wiggins;L. Holzman;R. Wiggins
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P. Thomas;Bryan L. Wharram;M. Goyal;J. Wiggins;L. Holzman;R. Wiggins
Podocytes are specialized epithelial cells with delicate interdigitating foot processes which cover the exterior basement membrane surface of the glomerular capillary. They are in part responsible for the extraordinary charge and size filtration characteristics of the glomerulus. To better understand disease processes affecting the glomerular filter, we searched for proteins with relative specificity to the podocyte using a monoclonal antibody strategy. The first such protein characterized (designated glomerular epithelial protein 1 (GLEPP1)) is a membrane protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase) with a large extracellular domain containing eight fibronectin type III-like repeats, a hydrophobic transmembrane segment, and a single PTPase domain. The GLEPP1 PTPase domain shows homology with two other single domain transmembrane PTPases (PTP beta and Drosophila central nervous system PTP10D). This homology includes 2 cysteines in the PTPase domain not present in intracellular or tandem domain membrane PTPases. GLEPP1 PTPase protein is distributed to the podocyte foot processes themselves. RNase protection assay shows that GLEPP1 mRNA is also present in brain. By analogy with the CD45 PTPase of T cells, we expect that this receptor might play a role in maintaining foot process structure and/or function by regulating tyrosine phosphorylation of podocyte proteins.