241 human active and 13 inactive phosphatases in total;
194 phosphatases have substrate data;
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336 protein substrates;
83 non-protein substrates;
1215 dephosphorylation interactions;
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299 KEGG pathways;
876 Reactome pathways;
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last scientific update: 11 Mar, 2019
last maintenance update: 01 Sep, 2023
DEPOD User Manual
Tips:
1. Mouse-over icon to get hints about various fields while exploring DEPOD-2019
2. Use Quick Search to search for phosphatases, substrates, or pathways in DEPOD-2019.
DEPOD-2019 allows you to search for - phosphatases, substrates (both protein and non-protein), dephosphosites, pathways and protein sequences. It also provides a Quick Search utility on every page in the top-right corner.
Click on the following tabs to see the search-interface and the output.
Human phosphatases can be accessed using their historical classification, structure-based (CATH) classification or EC-number based classes
Browse experimentally verified protein substrates of human phosphatases
Browse experimentally verified non-protein substrates of human phosphatases
Click of the ChEBI ID or the image to go to the corresponding non-protein entry
Browse pathways involving human phosphatases and their substrates
Browse human phosphatase-substrate network
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Gene name is the approved gene symbol from HGNC (HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee). Click the link to see gene name information in HGNC. Click the link "QuickGO" to see Gene Ontology terms and annotations provided by the UniProtKB-GOA group at the EBI.
Synonyms
Gene synonyms
Protein Name
Protein name
Alternative Name(s)
Protein names from UniProt annotation
EntrezGene ID
Gene ID in the EntrezGene database
Comparative Toxicogenomics
Link to the manually curated information about chemical–gene/protein interactions, chemical–disease and gene–disease relationships in CTD database
UniProt AC (Human)
Protein entry in the UniProt database (Homo sapiens)
Enzyme Class
Enzyme Commission number (links to the BRENDA database - the main collection of enzyme functional data available to the scientific community.)
Molecular Weight
Molecular weight of the protein in Daltons
Protein Length
Protein length (number of amino acids)
Genome Browsers
Visualize the gene in four genome browsers - NCBI, Ensembl, UCSC and 1000Genomes
Crosslinking
Annotations from 69 external databases
Orthologues
Evolutionary conservation of the protein across different species from Quest for Orthologues (QFO), Genetree and eggNOG (if available) visualized in ProViz
Classification
Family-level classification of protein phosphatases. Historical class of the phosphatase and the CATH-based classification as implemented in DEPOD along with the CATH and SCOP IDs
Phosphatase activity status
Annotations whether the phosphatases are catalytically active or not as reported in Alonso A and Oulido R, 2015, FEBS J. Catalytic signature motifs in protein Tyr-phosphatases (PTPs) are annotated as such.
Phosphonetwork visualization
Cytoscape visualization of the phosphatase-substrate-kinase network in a random layout. Protein kinases (purple squares) phosphorylating the protein of interest (blue triangle) and the phosphatases (orange circles) that dephosphorylate it can be visualized here. Nodes are connected via non-directed non-weighted edges. Click on these nodes to get information about that gene from the NCBI-Gene database. Drag and/or scroll the network using your mouse.
Protein Domain
Protein domain composition as defined in InterPro (an integrated database of predictive protein "signatures" used for the classification and automatic annotation of proteins and genomes), the SMART database (focuses on signaling domains, uses their own individual models and domain-specific cut-offs to define domain boundaries) and the Pfam database (a large collection of protein families, each represented by multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models (HMMs)).
Polypeptide organization
Schematic representation of the Pfam domains within the protein of interest. Click on a domain to see additional information about it in Pfam.
Interactive structure visualization
PDB Structures of proteins as reported in UniProt can be loaded one-by-one using the load button and visualized in Web3DMol.
3D Structure
Links to PDB (experimental structure database); DrugPort (providing an analysis of the structural information available in PDB relating to drug molecules and their protein targets); ModBase and SwissModel (theoretical structure model databases).
Catalytic Site
Link to the Catalytic Site Atlas (CSA) - a database documenting enzyme active sites and catalytic residues in enzymes of 3D structure.
Gene Expression
Link to the Gene Expression Atlas, which is a semantically enriched database of meta-analysis based summary statistics over a curated subset of ArrayExpress Archive, servicing queries for condition-specific gene expression patterns as well as broader exploratory searches for biologically interesting genes/samples.
Diseases
Link to the OMIM - Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (a comprehensive compendium of human genes and genetic phenotypes focusing on their inter-relationships. It is updated daily, and the entries contain copious links to other genetics resources), DisGeNet (discovery platform containing genes and variants in them associated to human diseases), COSMIC - Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (a comprehensive resource for exploring the impact of somatic mutations in human cancer) and ClinVar (a public archive of reports of the relationships among human variations and phenotypes, with supporting evidence).
Protein-protein Interaction Database
Links to four popular protein-protein interaction databases (BioGRID, STRING, IntAct and MINT). The interacting partners can be easily explored to find potential dephosphorylation interactions and study the phosphatase in a systematic way.
Phosphosites
Links to two major phosphosite databases - PhosphoSitePlus and PhosphoELM - so as to see which sites in the given proteins are experimentally characterized phosphosites and potential kinases in some of these cases.
Localization
The localizations are retrieved from UniProt annotations.
Function (UniProt annotation)
Protein functions from UniProt annotations
Catalytic Activity (UniProt annotation)
Protein catalytic activities from UniProt annotations
Protein Sequence
Protein sequence in FASTA format.
ELM Motifs
Short Linear Motifs (SLiMs) occurring in the protein predicted as true positive hots according to the Eukaryotic Linear Motif (ELM) database. The boundaries of the motif instance in that protein along with the general regular expression of the motif is also provided. Click on the motif instance to visualize its conservation using ProViz.
Gene Ontology ID
Gene Ontology IDs
Gene Ontology Term
Gene Ontology terms. P: Biological processes, MF: Molecular function terms and C: Cellular component terms.
Subtrate information is provided for Phosphatase entries while phosphatase information is provided for Substrate entries
Gene Name
Gene name of the substrate/phosphatase. Click the links to see detailed information about the gene in DEPOD.
UniProt AC
Link to the UniProt entry of the protein. We provide links only to the reviewed protein entries from humans. For protein substrates, the dephosphorylation sites which are documented in original literatures are manually corrected to the corresponding amino acid positions in the sequence of given UniProt protein entry.
Dephosphorylation Site
The dephosphorylation sites information is derived from original publications. For protein substrates, these sites are manually corrected to the corresponding amino acid positions in the sequence of given UniProt protein entry.
Bioassay Type
The type of experiments (in vitro or in vivo or both) showing dephosphorylation in original publications.
PubMed ID
PubMed id of original publications. Click the links to PubMed to see original publication showing the dephosphorylation interaction.
Reliability of the dephosphorylation interaction
DEPOD developed a score system for evaluating the reliability of the dephosphorylation interactions. Both the bioassay type and the number of different labs performing dephosphorylation experiments are considered here. Score 1 () - in vitro or in vivo experiments performed by single lab; Score 2 (): in vitro or in vivo experiments performed by multiple labs or both in vitro and in vivo experiments performed by single lab; Score 3 (): both in vitro and in vivo experiments performed by multiple labs.
For non-protein substrates of phosphatases, we provide following annotations
ChEBI ID
ChEBI ID of the compound. Click the ID to see detailed information about the compound in DEPOD.
KEGG ID
KEGG ID of the compound. Click the ID to see the corresponding entry in KEGG.
Dephosphosite
The dephosphorylation sites information is derived from original publications.
Bioassay Type
The type of experiments (in vitro or in vivo or both) showing dephosphorylation in original publications.
PubMed ID
PubMed id of original publications. Click the links to PubMed to see original publication showing the dephosphorylation interaction.
Reliability of the dephosphorylation interaction
DEPOD developed a score system for evaluating the reliability of the dephosphorylation interactions. Both the bioassay type and the number of different labs performing dephosphorylation experiments are considered here. Score 1 () - in vitro or in vivo experiments performed by single lab; Score 2 (): in vitro or in vivo experiments performed by multiple labs or both in vitro and in vivo experiments performed by single lab; Score 3 (): both in vitro and in vivo experiments performed by multiple labs.
Molecule
Image of the compound. Click on the image to see the corresponding entry in DEPOD.
Pathway ID
KEGG/REACTOME pathway ID. Click the links to see other phosphatases and their substrates (both protein and non-protein) from DEPOD that are involved in this pathway.
Pathway Name
KEGG/REACTOME pathway name. KEGG pathway name links to the corresponding entry in KEGG Pathway database. Reactome pathway name links to a pictorial representation of the pathway in REACTOME database.
Pathway Description
Description of the pathway in as provided by the corresponding pathway database.
DEPOD-2019 integrates information from three major protein interaction databases - BioGRID, IntAct and MINT and a non-redundant set of interacting protein partners of a given phosphatase or a substrate. In each case, we provide following annotations
Interacting partner
Gene name of the interacting protein partner.
Detection method
Experimental method/s (assay/s) used to detect the protein-protein interaction. We are not responsible for the reliability of the interaction. We rely on the source database/s for the reliability.
Interaction type
Describes the type of interaction. E.g. physical association.
PubMed ID
Provides PubMed links to the original publication/s reporting the interaction.
Interaction score
Reliability score for the interaction as provided by the respective source database. We are not responsible for the reliability of the interactions.
Source
Source database from where the interaction and its reliability was imported.
DEPOD-2019 provides annotations on protein kinases that are experimentally shown to phosphorylate a given phosphatase/substrate. This information has been integrated from three major phosphorylation databases - PhosphoSitePlus, phosphoELM and HPRD. We provide following annotations
Phosphorylating Kinases
Gene names of the phosphorylating protein kinases.
Phosphoresidues
Amino acid number and residue identity of the phosphosite along with a window of 7-amino acids on either side of the central phosphosite. Click on the site to see its conservation using ProViz.
Detection method
Experimental assay - in vitro, in vivo, Low throughput (LTP) and high throughput (HTP) - used to detect phosphorylation.
PubMed ID
Provides PubMed links to the original publication/s reporting the interaction.
Source
Source database from where the interaction was imported.
ChEBI ASCII nomenclature of the chemical substrate name in DEPOD.
Synonyms
Other nomenclatures used for the substrate
Definition
A brief description of the chemical substrate as provided in ChEBI
Molecular Weight
Molecular weight of the substrate
Molecular Formula
Molecular formula of the substrate
SMILEs
Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System (SMILES) notation for the substrate
InChI
IUPAC International Chemical Indentifier (InChI) of the substrate
InChI Key
InChI-based compact hashed code of a chemical compound having fixed length.
Crosslinking annotations
Links to other databases are provided.
Phosphatase Gene Name
Gene symbol of the phosphatase. Click the links to see detailed phosphatase information in DEPOD.
Phosphatase UniProt AC
Link to the UniProt entry for protein phosphatase.
DephosphorPosition
The dephosphorylation site information are derived from original publications.
Bioassay Type
The type of experiments showing dephosphorylation in original publications.
PubMed ID
PubMed ID of original literatures. Click the links to PubMed to see original literatures showing dephosphorylation interaction.
Reliability of the dephosphorylation interaction
DEPOD developed a score system for evaluating the reliability of the dephosphorylation interactions. Both the bioassay type and the number of different labs performing dephosphorylation experiments are considered here. Score 1 () - in vitro or in vivo experiments performed by single lab; Score 2 (): in vitro or in vivo experiments performed by multiple labs or both in vitro and in vivo experiments performed by single lab; Score 3 (): both in vitro and in vivo experiments performed by multiple labs.
Pathway ID
KEGG Pathway ID. Click the links to see other phosphatases and their substrates from DEPOD involved in the same pathway.
Pathway Name
KEGG pathway name links to the corresponding entry in KEGG Pathway database.
Pathway Description
Description of the pathway as given the corresponding pathway database.
For a given pathway, DEPOD provides phosphatase and their substrates (both protein and non-proteins) involved in that pathway. Following is an example of pathway mapping using one of the reactome pathways.