gene: vhp-1 [Browse genome (BioProject PRJNA13758)] [Search on AGR]
Caenorhabditis elegans Enables JUN kinase phosphatase activity and MAP kinase tyrosine/serine/threonine phosphatase activity. Involved in several processes, including regulation of cellular response to stress; regulation of defense response to bacterium; and regulation of protein localization to nucleus. Acts upstream of with a negative effect on protein catabolic process. Predicted to be located in cytoplasm and nucleus. Is an ortholog of human DUSP16 (dual specificity phosphatase 16) and DUSP8 (dual specificity phosphatase 8).