| pubmed-article:12932234 | pubmed:abstractText | Cellular tyrosine phosphorylation is regulated by two large families of enzymes. Protein tyrosine kinases (PTK) mediate addition, and protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTP), removal of phosphate from protein substrates. PTKs are oncogenes and PTPs have been hypothesized to function as tumour suppressor genes. | lld:pubmed |
