Choice of STATs and other substrates specified by modular tyrosine-based motifs in cytokine receptors

Science. 1995 Mar 3;267(5202):1349-53. doi: 10.1126/science.7871433.

Abstract

Many members of the cytokine receptor superfamily initiate intracellular signaling by activating members of the Jak family of tyrosine kinases. Activation of the same Jaks by multiple cytokines raises the question of how these cytokines activate distinct intracellular signaling pathways. Selection of particular substrates--the transcriptional activator Stat3 and protein tyrosine phosphatase PTP1D--that characterize responses to the ciliary neurotrophic factor-interleukin-6 cytokine family depended not on which Jak was activated, but was instead determined by specific tyrosine-based motifs in the receptor components--gp130 and LIFR--shared by these cytokines. Further, these tyrosine-based motifs were modular, because addition of a Stat3-specifying motif to another cytokine receptor, that for erythropoietin, caused it to activate Stat3 in a ligand-dependent fashion.

MeSH terms

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Antigens, CD*
  • Cell Line
  • Cytokine Receptor gp130
  • DNA-Binding Proteins / metabolism*
  • Growth Inhibitors*
  • Interleukin-6 / pharmacology
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Leukemia Inhibitory Factor
  • Lymphokines*
  • Membrane Glycoproteins / chemistry
  • Membrane Glycoproteins / metabolism*
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Phosphorylation
  • Point Mutation
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases / metabolism
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / metabolism*
  • Receptors, Cytokine / chemistry
  • Receptors, Cytokine / metabolism*
  • Receptors, OSM-LIF
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins / metabolism
  • STAT3 Transcription Factor
  • Signal Transduction*
  • Trans-Activators / metabolism*
  • Tyrosine / metabolism

Substances

  • Antigens, CD
  • DNA-Binding Proteins
  • Growth Inhibitors
  • Interleukin-6
  • Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
  • Leukemia Inhibitory Factor
  • Lymphokines
  • Membrane Glycoproteins
  • Receptors, Cytokine
  • Receptors, OSM-LIF
  • Recombinant Fusion Proteins
  • STAT3 Transcription Factor
  • Trans-Activators
  • Cytokine Receptor gp130
  • Tyrosine
  • Protein-Tyrosine Kinases
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6
  • Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases