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SUBMITTER: Sherwood AR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3577954 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sherwood Amanda R AR Paasch Bradley C BC Worby Carolyn A CA Gentry Matthew S MS
Analytical biochemistry 20121129 1
With the recent discovery of a unique class of dual-specificity phosphatases that dephosphorylate glucans, we report an in vitro assay tailored for the detection of phosphatase activity against phosphorylated glucans. We demonstrate that, in contrast to a general phosphatase assay using a synthetic substrate, only phosphatases that possess glucan phosphatase activity liberate phosphate from the phosphorylated glucan amylopectin using the described assay. This assay is simple and cost-effective, ...[more]