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Facts about Receptor-type tyrosine-protein phosphatase kappa.
Forms complexes with beta-catenin and gamma-catenin/plakoglobin. Beta-catenin might be a substrate for the catalytic action of PTPRK/PTP-kappa.
| Human | |
|---|---|
| Gene Name: | PTPRK |
| Uniprot: | Q15262 |
| Entrez: | 5796 |

| Belongs to: |
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| protein-tyrosine phosphatase family |

DKFZp686C2268; DKFZp779N1045; EC 3.1.3.48; protein tyrosine phosphatase kappa, protein tyrosine phosphatase kappa; protein tyrosine phosphatase, receptor type, K; Protein-tyrosine phosphatase kappa; protein-tyrosine phosphatase, receptor type, kappa; PTPK; receptor type, K (R-PTP-KAPPA; receptor-type tyrosine-protein phosphatase kappa
Mass (kDA):
162.102 kDA

| Human | |
|---|---|
| Location: | 6q22.33 |
| Sequence: | 6; NC_000006.12 (127968785..128520603, complement) |
High levels in lung, brain and colon; less in liver, pancreas, stomach, kidney, placenta and mammary carcinoma.
Cell junction, adherens junction. Cell membrane; Single-pass type I membrane protein.






PMID: 8663237 by Fuchs M., et al. Association of human protein-tyrosine phosphatase kappa with members of the armadillo family.
PMID: 9047348 by Yang Y., et al. Molecular cloning and chromosomal localization of a human gene homologous to the murine R-PTP-kappa, a receptor-type protein tyrosine phosphatase.