The role of vascular endothelial protein tyrosine phosphatase on nitric oxide synthase function in diabetes: from molecular biology to the clinic

Alberto Fernando Oliveira Justo; Pedro Paulo Luciano Afonso

doi:10.1007/s12079-021-00611-9

The role of vascular endothelial protein tyrosine phosphatase on nitric oxide synthase function in diabetes: from molecular biology to the clinic

J Cell Commun Signal. 2021 Sep;15(3):467-471. doi: 10.1007/s12079-021-00611-9. Epub 2021 Mar 8.

Authors

Alberto Fernando Oliveira Justo¹, Pedro Paulo Luciano Afonso²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo - UNIFESP, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. albertofojusto@gmail.com.
² Hospital Municipal do Campo Limpo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Abstract

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and receptor-type vascular endothelial protein tyrosine phosphatase (VE-PTP) are one of the majors signaling pathways related to endothelial health in diabetes. Several reports have shown that the inhibition of VE-PTP can lead the nitric oxide production, although repeated studies showed that VE-PTP regulated the eNOS exclusive at Ser1177 in indirect-manner. A recent, exciting paper (Siragusa et al. in Cardiovasc Res, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvaa213 ), showing that VE-PTP regulates eNOS in a direct-manner, dephosphorylating eNOS at Tyr81 and indirect at Ser1177 and the effects of a VE-PTP inhibitor, AKB-9778, in the blood pressure from diabetic patients.

Keywords: AKB-9778; VE-PTP; eNOS; eNOS serine phosphorylation; eNOS tyrosine phosphorylation.