Tyrosine Phosphorylation and Activationof STAT5, STAT3
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 92, pp. 8705-8709, September 1995 Immunology Tyrosine phosphorylation and activation of STAT5, STAT3, and Janus kinases by interleukins 2 and 15 JAMES A. JOHNSTON*tt, CHRIS M. BACON*t§, DAVID S. FINBLOOMI, ROBERT C. REES§, DAVID KAPLANII, KYO SHIBUYAII, JOHN R. ORTALDO**, SANJAY GUPTAtt, YI QING CHEN*, JUDY D. GIRItt, AND JOHN J. O'SHEA* *Lymphocyte Cell Biology Section, Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892; IDivision of Cytokine Biology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD; **Laboratory of Experimental Immunology, Biological Response Modifiers Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and I1Advanced BioScience Laboratories, National Cancer Institute-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, MD 21702-1201; ttlmmunex Research and Development Corporation, Seattle, WA 98101; ttDepartment of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032; and §Institute for Cancer Studies, University of Sheffield Medical School, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S10 2RX, United Kingdom Communicated by Henry Metzger, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, June 15, 1995 (received for review March 23, 1995) ABSTRACT The cytokines interleukin 2 (IL-2) and IL-15 important to examine whether IL-15 might also activate JAK3 have similar biological effects on T cells and bind common and JAK1. hematopoietin receptor subunits. Pathways that involve Janus Studies of the mechanism by which hematopoietin receptors kinases (JAKs) and signal transducers and activators of activate gene transcription indicate that STAT proteins be- transcription (STATs) have been shown to be important for come rapidly tyrosine-phosphorylated in the receptor complex hematopoietin receptor signaling.
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