Caenorhabditis elegans      Asp-Based PSP/FCP


※ FCP family introduction

    FCP/SCP phosphatase belongs to a family of phosphatase which uses an Asp nucleophile for catalysis. FCP/SCP is characterized by its phosphatase activity towards the CTD of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II (1). At least seven members have been identified in human genome and FCP/SCP phosphatases share a conserved catalytic signature, which is known as DXDXT/V (2). Family member FCP1 is conserved among all eukaryotes and plays an important role in cell survival in budding and fission yeasts. SCP1 preferentially dephosphorylates Ser5 in CTD domain of RNA polymerase II and plays a role in the regulation of gene expression by controlling the transition from initiation/capping to processive transcript elongation (3). In addition, SCP1 also acts as a key regulator that functions in silencing neuronal gene expression (4).

Reference
1. Shi, Y. (2009) Serine/threonine phosphatases: mechanism through structure. Cell, 139, 468-484. PMID: 19879837
2. Moorhead, G.B., Trinkle-Mulcahy, L. and Ulke-Lemee, A. (2007) Emerging roles of nuclear protein phosphatases. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol, 8, 234-244. PMID: 17318227
3. Yeo, M., Lin, P.S., Dahmus, M.E. and Gill, G.N. (2003) A novel RNA polymerase II C-terminal domain phosphatase that preferentially dephosphorylates serine 5. J Biol Chem, 278, 26078-26085. PMID: 12721286
4. Yeo, M., Lee, S.K., Lee, B., Ruiz, E.C., Pfaff, S.L. and Gill, G.N. (2005) Small CTD phosphatases function in silencing neuronal gene expression. Science, 307, 596-600. PMID: 15681389


There are 5 genes.  Reviewed (5 or Unreviewed (0

No.StatusiEKPD IDEnsemble Gene IDUniProt AccessionGene Name
1
iEKPD-Cae-0414
WBGene00018474
Q20432
cnep-1
2
iEKPD-Cae-0833
WBGene00009479
Q95QG8
fcp-1
3
iEKPD-Cae-0422
WBGene00007054
Q8T3G2
scpl-1
4
iEKPD-Cae-0416
WBGene00021629
Q9N4V4
scpl-3
5
iEKPD-Cae-0424
WBGene00011897
Q22647
scpl-4