Development and testing of a novel glucan phosphatase inhibitor.A, the structure the TgLaforin inhibitor L319-21-M49. B, classification tree of the phosphatases used in this study. C, L319-M21-M49 inhibits TgLaforin activity against the model phosphatase substrate pNPP with >100-fold specificity over other phosphatases. D, Lineweaver-Burk double-reciprocal plot demonstrating that L319-21-M49 is a competitive inhibitor of TgLaforin. Each dataset represents a different inhibitor concentration, indicated in legend. E, L319-M21-M49 inhibits TgLaforin activity against soluble amylopectin; F, activity against insoluble starch with similar efficiency. All graphical error bars represent the standard deviation of at least three independent replicates, and all IC50 values are the mean of three independent replicates with uncertainty presented as standard deviation from the mean. AP, alkaline phosphatase; CIP, calf intestinal phosphatase; DSP, dual-specificity phosphatase; PTP, protein tyrosine phosphatase; VHR, Vaccinia H1-related phosphatase.