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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Microbiol. 2017 Jun 14;106(1):1–21. doi: 10.1111/mmi.13715

Table 5.

Summary of the characterized protein phosphatases.

Name ID Localization Regulators Substrates Function References
TgPP1 TGME49_310700 Cytoplasm and Nucleus TgLRR1 Host cell invasion; Essential in parasite growth Delorme, V., et al. (2002); Daher, W., et al. (2007)
PfPP1 PF3D7_1414400 Cytoplasm and Nucleus; Maurer’s clefts of infected erythrocytes PfLRR1; PfI2; PfI3 PfSBP1 DNA synthesis and cell cycle progression Bhattacharyya, M. K., et al. (2002); Kumar, R., et al. (2002); Blisnick, T., et al. (2006); Daher, W., et al. (2006); Freville, A., et al. (2012); Freeville, A., et al. (2013); Freville, A., et al. (2014); Hollin, T., et al. (2016)
PfPP2A PF3D7_0925400 PfARP; PfPTPA Sexual stage development Li, J. L. and D. A. Baker (1997); Dobson, S., et al. (1999); Dobson, S., et al. (2003); Vandomme, A., et al. (2014)
TgPP2B or TgCnA TGME49_311310 Cytoplasm and enriched in apical end for extracelluar parasites TgCnB Stabilize attachment of extracellular parasites to host cells High, K. P., et al. (1994); Moudy, R., et al. (2001); Paul, A. S., et al. (2015)
PfPP2B or PfCnA PF3D7_0802800 Cytoplasm PfCnB Stabilize attachment of extracellular parasites to host cells Bell, A., et al. (1994); Berriman, M. and A. H. Fairlamb (1998); Kumar, R., et al. (2005); Singh, S., et al. (2014); Paul, A. S., et al. (2015); Philip, N. and A. P. Waters (2015)
PfPP5 PF3D7_1355500 Cytoplasm and Nucleus Pfhsp90 Dobson, S., et al. (2001); Lindenthal, C. and M. Q. Klinkert (2002)
PfPP7 PF3D7_1423300 Cytoplasm Dobson, S., et al. (2001)
PfPPKL PF3D7_1466100 Ookinete development Guttery, D. S., et al. (2012); Philip, N., et al. (2012)
PfSLP1 PF3D7_1469200 Microneme Development; Ookinete development Patzewitz, E. M., et al. (2013)
PfSLP2 PF3D7_1206000 The apical end of invasive merozoites and unknown vesicles PfBand3 Regulation of Band 3 Dynamics during Parasite Invasion Fernandez-Pol, S., et al. (2013)
PfPPM2 PF3D7_1138500 PfEF-1β Gametocyte sex allocation and ookinete differentiation Mamoun, C. B., et al. (1998); Mamoun, C. B. and D. E. Goldberg (2001); Guttery, D. S., et al. (2014)
PfPPM5 PF3D7_0810300 Oocyst development Guttery, D. S., et al. (2014)
TgPPM13 TGME49_231850 Toxofilin Regulation of phosphorylation status of Toxofilin Delorme, V., et al. (2003); Jan, G., et al. (2007)
TgPPM20 or TgPP2Chn TGME49_282055 Rhoptries and host nucleus Gilbert, L. A., et al. (2007)