Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) are regulated through reversible oxidation of the active-site cysteine. Previous studies have implied soluble reactive oxygen species (ROS), like H 2 O 2 , as the mediators of PTP oxidation. The potential role(s) of peroxidized lipids in PTP oxidation have not been described. This study demonstrates that increases in cellular lipid peroxides, induced by disruption of glutathione peroxidase 4, induce cellular PTP oxidation and reduce the activity of PDGF receptor targeting PTPs. These effects were accompanied by site-selective increased PDGF β-receptor phosphorylation, sensitive to 12/15-lipoxygenase (12/15-LOX) inhibitors, and increased PDGF-induced cytoskeletal rearrangements. Importantly, the 12/15-LOX-derived 15-OOH-eicosatetraenoic acid lipid peroxide was much more effective than H 2 O 2 in induction of in vitro PTP oxidation. Our study thus establishes that lipid peroxides are previously unrecognized inducers of oxidation of PTPs. This identifies a pathway for control of receptor tyrosine kinase signaling, which might also be involved in the etiology of diseases associated with increased lipid peroxidation.phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase | PDGF | redox regulation | reversible oxidation S ignaling through receptor tyrosine kinases (RTKs), such as the PDGF β-receptor, is subjected to negative control by protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) (1-3). Consequently, alterations in expression levels or the specific activity of PTPs will affect the cellular response to ligands of RTKs. With regard to the PDGF β-receptor, a series of PTPs, including T cell protein tyrosine phosphatase (TC-PTP), density enhanced phosphatase-1 (DEP-1), SHP-2, and PTP-1B, have been found to modulate receptor signaling (4-7). Detailed analyses of the consequences of deletion of individual PTPs have shown that individual PDGF receptorantagonizing PTPs preferentially dephosphorylate particular phospho-tyrosine residues of the receptor and thereby are able to modulate the signaling output (4,(8)(9)(10).Inhibitory and reversible oxidation of the active-site cysteine has emerged as a general mechanism for PTP regulation (11,12). As a consequence of the microenvironment of the conserved active site of PTPs, the catalytic cysteine of PTPs usually exists as thiolate anion, which is highly susceptible to oxidation. Studies in cellular models, as well as in vitro studies, indicate that PTPs display intrinsic differences in oxidation susceptibility (13-15). PTP oxidation has been shown after activation of reactive oxygen species (ROS)-inducing cell-surface