Visualization of the cysteinyl-phosphate intermediate of a protein-tyrosine phosphatase by x-ray crystallography.
Pannifer, A.D., Flint, A.J., Tonks, N.K., Barford, D.(1998) J.Biol.Chem. 273: 10454-10462
- PubMed: 9553104 
- PubMed Abstract: 
Protein-tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are signal transduction enzymes that catalyze the dephosphorylation of phosphotyrosine residues via the formation of a transient cysteinyl-phosphate intermediate. The mechanism of hydrolysis of this intermediate h ...