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The synthesis of natural product, dephostatin, is described. Both deph
ostatin and N-methyl-N-nitrosoaniline are found to inactivate the homo
geneous recombinant Yersinia and mammalian protein tyrosine phosphatas
es in a concentration and time dependent manner.