This protocol describes experimental procedures for in vitro dephosphorylation assay of human protein c-Myc. This protocol can be adapted to detect phosphatase activity of other Ser/Thr phosphatases.
Carboxy-terminal domain RNA polymerase II polypeptide A small phosphatase 1 (SCP1, also known as CTDSP1 or NLI-IF) belongs to the FCP/SCP phosphatase family and was originally reported to dephosphorylate the C-terminal domain (CTD) of RNA polymerase II (Yeo et al., 2003). Smad2, 3 (Wrighton et al., 2006), Snail (Wu et al., 2009), PML (Lin et al., 2014), and c-Myc (Wang et al., 2016) have also been identified as substrates of SCP1.