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Diabetes reversal by inhibition of the low-molecular-weight tyrosine phosphatase

  • Nat Chem Biol. 2017 Jun;13(6):624-632. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2344.
Stephanie M Stanford 1 2,  Alexander E Aleshin 3,  Vida Zhang 1 2,  Robert J Ardecky 4,  Michael P Hedrick 4,  Jiwen Zou 4,  Santhi R Ganji 4,  Matthew R Bliss 1,  Fusayo Yamamoto 4,  Andrey A Bobkov 4,  Janna Kiselar 5,  Yingge Liu 6,  Gregory W Cadwell 3,  Shilpi Khare 4,  Jinghua Yu 4,  Antonio Barquilla 1,  Thomas D Y Chung 4,  Tomas Mustelin 7,  Simon Schenk 8,  Laurie A Bankston 3,  Robert C Liddington 3,  Anthony B Pinkerton 4,  Nunzio Bottini 1 2
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Division of Cellular Biology, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, California, USA.
  • 2 Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
  • 3 Infectious and Inflammatory Disease Center, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.
  • 4 Conrad Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics, Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.
  • 5 Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
  • 6 Institute for Genetic Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  • 7 Department of Respiratory, Inflammation and Autoimmunity, MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
  • 8 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.
PMID: 28346406 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2344
Abstract

Obesity-associated Insulin resistance plays a central role in type 2 diabetes. As such, tyrosine phosphatases that dephosphorylate the Insulin Receptor (IR) are potential therapeutic targets. The low-molecular-weight protein tyrosine Phosphatase (LMPTP) is a proposed IR Phosphatase, yet its role in Insulin signaling in vivo has not been defined. Here we show that global and liver-specific LMPTP deletion protects mice from high-fat diet-induced diabetes without affecting body weight. To examine the role of the catalytic activity of LMPTP, we developed a small-molecule inhibitor with a novel uncompetitive mechanism, a unique binding site at the opening of the catalytic pocket, and an exquisite selectivity over other phosphatases. This inhibitor is orally bioavailable, and it increases liver IR phosphorylation in vivo and reverses high-fat diet-induced diabetes. Our findings suggest that LMPTP is a key promoter of Insulin resistance and that LMPTP inhibitors would be beneficial for treating type 2 diabetes.

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