Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license.
Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat.
We can research this topic together.
Protein phosphatase 1 regulatory subunit 12B is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PPP1R12Bgene.
Myosin light chain phosphatase (MLCP) consists of three subunits- catalytic subunit, large subunit/myosin binding subunit (MBS) and small subunit (sm-M20). This gene is a multi-functional gene which encodes both MBS and sm-M20. MLCP regulates myosins and the dephosphorylation is enhanced by the presence of MBS. The sm-M20 is suggested to play a regulatory role in muscle contraction by binding to MBS. MBS is also encoded by another gene, myosin light chain phosphatase target subunit 1. sm-M20 shows higher binding affinity to this gene product than to myosin light chain phosphatase target subunit 2-MBS even though the two MBS proteins are highly similar. Although both MBSs increase the activity of MLCP, myosin light chain phosphatase target subunit 1-MBS is a more efficient activator. There are four alternatively spliced transcript variants described; two alter the MBS coding region and two alter the sm-M20 coding region of this gene.
"Human PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
"Mouse PubMed Reference:". National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Fujioka M, Takahashi N, Odai H, Araki S, Ichikawa K, Feng J, Nakamura M, Kaibuchi K, Hartshorne DJ, Nakano T, Ito M (Jun 1998). "A new isoform of human myosin phosphatase targeting/regulatory subunit (MYPT2): cDNA cloning, tissue expression, and chromosomal mapping". Genomics. 49 (1): 59–68. doi:10.1006/geno.1998.5222. PMID9570949.
Okamoto R, Kato T, Mizoguchi A, et al. (2007). "Characterization and function of MYPT2, a target subunit of myosin phosphatase in heart". Cell. Signal. 18 (9): 1408–16. doi:10.1016/j.cellsig.2005.11.001. PMID16431080.