PTPRT
Encyclopedia
Receptor-type tyrosine-protein phosphatase T is an enzyme
that in humans is encoded by the PTPRT gene
.
PTPRT is also known as human accelerated region
9. It may, therefore, have played a key role in differentiating humans from apes.
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that catalyze chemical reactions. In enzymatic reactions, the molecules at the beginning of the process, called substrates, are converted into different molecules, called products. Almost all chemical reactions in a biological cell need enzymes in order to occur at rates...
that in humans is encoded by the PTPRT gene
Gene
A gene is a molecular unit of heredity of a living organism. It is a name given to some stretches of DNA and RNA that code for a type of protein or for an RNA chain that has a function in the organism. Living beings depend on genes, as they specify all proteins and functional RNA chains...
.
PTPRT is also known as human accelerated region
Human accelerated regions
Human accelerated regions , first described in August 2006, are a set of 49 segments of the human genome which are conserved throughout vertebrate evolution but are strikingly different in humans. They are named HAR1 through HAR49 according to their degree of difference between humans and chimpanzees...
9. It may, therefore, have played a key role in differentiating humans from apes.