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Liu D, Scafidi J, Prada AE, Zahedi K, Davis AE. Nuclear phosphatases and the proteasome in suppression of STAT1 activity in hepatocytes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002; 299:574-80. [PMID: 12459177 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(02)02694-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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IFN-gamma induction of C1 inhibitor (C1INH) is mediated by an IFN-gamma-activated sequence (GAS), via binding of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1). These studies focused on the factors responsible for down-regulation of nuclear STAT1 in hepatocytes, the primary site of synthesis of C1INH. The activity of nuclear STAT1 following stimulation with IFN-gamma was sustained with the phosphatase inhibitor, pervanadate, or the proteasome inhibitor, lactacystin. Pervanadate prolonged STAT1 activation and blocked the inactivation of nuclear STAT1. Binding of ubiquitin to phosphorylated STAT1 was detectable in cells treated with lactacystin. Staurosporine only moderately decreased the prolongation of nuclear phosphorylated STAT1 after pretreatment with pervanadate or lactacystin. An antisense mitogen-activated protein kinase phosphatase (MKP-1) oligonucleotide prolonged the accumulation of phosphorylated STAT1. These data are consistent with the hypothesis that down-regulation of IFN-gamma-mediated nuclear STAT1 binding in hepatocytes involves both dephosphorylation by MKP-1 and degradation via proteolysis by the ubiquitin-dependent proteasome pathway.
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- Dongxu Liu
- The Center for Blood Research, Harvard Medical School, 800 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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Han Y, Rogers N, Ransohoff RM. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha signals to the IFN-gamma receptor complex to increase Stat1alpha activation. J Interferon Cytokine Res 1999; 19:731-40. [PMID: 10454343 DOI: 10.1089/107999099313578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We describe a novel mechanism of signaling interaction through which tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) treatment augments interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)-induced Stat1alpha DNA-binding complexes and transcriptional activation of a Stat-binding element. In TNF-alpha-treated cells, IFN-gamma-induced phosphorylation of Jak2 kinase is increased, Jak2 kinase activity is enhanced, and genetic studies indicate that TNF-alpha requires Jak2 kinase activity to enhance Stat1alpha tyrosine phosphorylation. Increased Jak2 and Stat1alpha phosphorylation are observed within minutes of coexposure to TNF-alpha/IFN-gamma, suggesting a direct signaling interaction. IFN-gamma receptor chain 1 (IFNGR-1) tyrosine phosphorylation is markedly enhanced in cells treated with TNF-alpha/IFN-gamma without alteration in receptor levels. Thus, there exists a direct signaling interaction between TNF-alpha and IFN-gamma, independent of cooperating enhancer elements, that may be relevant for cytokine action during immune-mediated host defense and inflammatory processes.
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- Y Han
- Department of Neurosciences, The Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA
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Holmes EW. Expression and regulation of interferon-gamma-induced tryptophan catabolism in cultured skin fibroblasts. J Interferon Cytokine Res 1998; 18:509-20. [PMID: 9712367 DOI: 10.1089/jir.1998.18.509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma)-induced, indoleamine dioxygenase-catalyzed tryptophan catabolism was studied in cultured human foreskin fibroblasts using the increase in cellular kynurenine synthesis as an index of gene expression. The time courses of the inhibition of IFN-gamma-induced kynurenine synthesis by actinomycin D and cycloheximide showed that the indoleamine dioxygenase gene was transcribed as early as 2 h and translated as early as 5 h after initiation of IFN treatment. Expression was completely inhibited by the Ser/Thr kinase inhibitor, H-7 (66 microM), during the first 2 h after IFN-gamma treatment. Prolonged pretreatment of cells with high concentrations of staurosporine (380 nM) or genestein (610 microM) inhibited expression by 38% and 53%, respectively. Genestein also inhibited expression when it was added to cultures between 8 and 24 h after IFN-gamma treatment. The expression of kynurenine synthesis was inhibited by A23817 during the first 4 h after IFN treatment by mechanisms that were independent of cyclooxygenase, calmodulin, and calcineurin. Exogenous gangliosides (bovine brain gangliosides and purified GM1) inhibited IDO expression throughout the first 24 h after IFN-gamma treatment by mechanisms that did not involve effects on Ca2+ channels. Other biologic response modifiers, including phorbol myristic acetate, arachidonic acid, lipopolysaccharide, analogs of cAMP and cGMP, W-7, and sphingosine, did not induce IDO in the absence of IFN-gamma, nor did they modulate IFN-gamma-induced expression. These results indicate that the expression of kynurenine synthesis is modulated at the transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels by protein tyrosine kinase and by a Ser/Thr kinase with properties distinctly different from those of conventional protein kinase C. The capacity for attenuation of this IFN-gamma-induced response over its entire time course by many effectors and through multiple cellular signaling pathways may represent a mechanism for fine-tuning the level of oxidative tryptophan metabolism to meet the needs of a particular cytostatic or antiproliferative response.
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- E W Holmes
- Department of Pathology, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL 60153, USA
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Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), a pleiotropic cytokine, is expressed in both fetal and adult pituitary tissue, and LIF immunoreactivity is found in functional human pituitary tumors. LIF induces basal, and augments CRH-induced, POMC mRNA and ACTH secretion from AtT20 cells. Therefore, we examined LIF signaling and LIF regulation of POMC expression in AtT20 cells. Immunoneutralization studies demonstrated the dependence of LIF action on both the specific LIF receptor (35% inhibition; p < 0.05) and also the gpl30 affinity converter (41% inhibition; p < 0.05). These antisera also attenuate basal ACTH secretion without added LIF. LIF rapidly induced tyrosyl phosphorylation of both STAT 1 alpha, and STAT beta and also induced phosphorylation of a novel STAT 1 alpha related protein p115. LIF induced POMC transcription (-706/+64) and strikingly potentiated CRH action (up to 18-fold induction). This synergy involved cAMP-dependent pathways, as forskolin action was also potentiated by LIF. Deletion of the major CRH-responsive region in POMC (-323/-166) abolished both CRH and LIF action on POMC transcription. Thus LIF action in pituitary corticotrophs is dependent on LIF receptor heterodimerisation with gpl30 and involves STAT protein tyrosyl phosphorylation. LIF enhances POMC transcription and strongly potentiates the well-documented action of CRH on the POMC gene. These results define a subcellular mechanism for an immuno-neuroendocrine interface between peripheral afferent signals and the HPA axis.
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- D W Ray
- Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute-UCLA School of Medicine 90048, USA
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Lee CK, Bluyssen HA, Levy DE. Regulation of interferon-alpha responsiveness by the duration of Janus kinase activity. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:21872-7. [PMID: 9268319 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.35.21872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Daudi B lymphoblastoid cells are highly sensitive to the anti-growth and anti-viral effects of interferon (IFN). Unlike many cell lines, these cells show prolonged transcription of IFN-stimulated genes following treatment with IFN-alpha. This prolonged response correlated with the continued presence of the activated transcription factor, IFN-stimulated gene factor 3 (ISGF3). Pulse-chase labeling experiments indicated that the half-life of the phosphorylation of signal transducers and activators of transcription (Stat)1 and Stat2 was short (<2 h) although the turnover of the proteins themselves was slow (>24 h), indicative of a constitutive phosphatase activity. The administration of protein-tyrosine kinase inhibitors at any time point during IFN stimulation led to rapid inhibition of the response, indicating that tyrosine kinase activity was continuously required. Catalytic activity of Jak1 and Tyk2 kinases remained elevated for prolonged periods following stimulation. Continuous presence of IFN-alpha was necessary for maintaining prolonged activation of ISGF3 and of Janus kinases, an activity that was blocked by antibodies to IFN-alpha or by cycloheximide. Conditioned medium of IFN-alpha-stimulated cells was capable of stimulating STAT activation in naive cells. Taken together, these results suggest that the response to IFN-alpha is controlled by the duration of stimulated Janus kinase activity over the background of constitutive dephosphorylation and that this response can be sustained by autocrine secretion of IFN-alpha.
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- C K Lee
- Department of Pathology and Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA
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Sharf R, Meraro D, Azriel A, Thornton AM, Ozato K, Petricoin EF, Larner AC, Schaper F, Hauser H, Levi BZ. Phosphorylation events modulate the ability of interferon consensus sequence binding protein to interact with interferon regulatory factors and to bind DNA. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:9785-92. [PMID: 9092512 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.15.9785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 146] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Two families of transcription factors mediate interferon (IFN) signaling. The first family, signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs), is activated within minutes of IFN treatment. Specific phosphorylation events lead to their translocation to the nucleus, formation of transcriptional complexes, and the induction of the second family of transcription factors termed interferon regulatory factors (IRFs). Interferon consensus sequence binding protein (ICSBP) is a member of IRF family that is expressed only in cells of the immune system and acts as a transcriptional repressor. ICSBP binds DNA through the association with other transcription factors such as IRF-1 or IRF-2. In this communication, the domain that is involved in protein-protein interactions was mapped to the carboxyl terminus of ICSBP. This domain is also important for mediating ICSBP-repressing activity. In vitro studies demonstrated that direct binding of ICSBP to DNA is prevented by tyrosine (Tyr) phosphorylation. Yet, Tyr-phosphorylated ICSBP can bind target DNA only through the association with IRF-2 and IRF-1. This type of phosphorylation is essential for the formation of heterocomplexes. Tyr-phosphorylated ICSBP and IRF-2 are detected in expressing cells constitutively, and Tyr-phosphorylated IRF-1 is induced by IFN-gamma. These results strongly suggest that like the STATs, the IRFs are also modulated by Tyr phosphorylation that affects their biological activities.
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- R Sharf
- Department of Food Engineering and Biotechnology, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Naik SM, Shibagaki N, Li LJ, Quinlan KL, Paxton LL, Caughman SW. Interferon gamma-dependent induction of human intercellular adhesion molecule-1 gene expression involves activation of a distinct STAT protein complex. J Biol Chem 1997; 272:1283-90. [PMID: 8995433 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.272.2.1283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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In response to interferon gamma (IFNgamma), intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) is expressed on human keratinocytes, a cell type that is critically involved in cutaneous inflammation. An ICAM-1 5' regulatory region palindromic response element, pIgammaRE, has been shown to confer IFNgamma-dependent transcription enhancement. By electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA), pIgammaRE forms a distinct complex with proteins from IFNgamma-treated human keratinocytes, termed gamma response factor (GRF). Binding of GRF is tyrosine phosphorylation-dependent, and mutations of pIgammaRE that disrupt the palindromic sequence or alter its spatial relationship abrogate GRF binding. Supershift EMSAs using antibodies to characterized STAT proteins suggest that GRF contains a Stat1alpha-like protein; however, non-ICAM-1 IFNgamma-responsive elements (REs) known to bind Stat1alpha homodimers fail to compete for GRF binding in EMSA, and pIgammaRE does not cross-compete with these REs that complex with homodimeric stat1alpha. The pIgammaRE x GRF complex also displays a distinctly different electrophoretic mobility compared to that of IFNgammaREs complexed to homodimeric Stat1alpha. These findings indicate that a distinct complex containing a Stat1alpha-like protein mediates IFNgamma-induced ICAM-1 gene transcription and identifies a subset of IFNgamma-responsive genes that appear to be regulated by this complex.
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- S M Naik
- Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
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Wang XY, Kafka M, Dvilansky A, Nathan I. The roles of protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation in tumor necrosis factor antitumor effects. J Interferon Cytokine Res 1996; 16:1021-5. [PMID: 8974004 DOI: 10.1089/jir.1996.16.1021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023] Open
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The roles of protein phosphorylation and dephosphorylation in the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) cytotoxic and antiproliferative effects on L-929-transformed fibroblasts were explored. Genistein and erbstatin, specific inhibitors of tyrosine kinase, had antiproliferative but not cytotoxic effects on the cells by themselves and synergistically enhanced the cytotoxic and antiproliferative effects of TNF-alpha. Immunoblot analysis with a monoclonal antiphosphotyrosine antibody revealed that TNF, administered for 5-180 min, induced tyrosine dephosphorylation of two pairs of membranal proteins, 34-36 kDa and 50-52 kDa, and potentiated tyrosine phosphorylation of a 115-kDa protein in both the cytosolic and membranal fractions of the cells. A very brief exposure (30 sec) to TNF induced rapid phosphorylation of several proteins, whereas genistein, but not inhibitors of other protein kinases, enhanced this effect of TNF. The results suggest that TNF activity could be potentiated by the inhibition of tyrosine phosphorylation and point to specific proteins that are dephosphorylated on tyrosine in response to TNF.
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- X Y Wang
- Department of Hematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
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David M, Zhou G, Pine R, Dixon JE, Larner AC. The SH2 domain-containing tyrosine phosphatase PTP1D is required for interferon alpha/beta-induced gene expression. J Biol Chem 1996; 271:15862-5. [PMID: 8663536 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.271.27.15862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Interferons (IFNs) induce early response genes by stimulating Janus family (Jak) tyrosine kinases, leading to tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins. Previous studies demonstrated that a protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTP) is required for activation of the ISGF3 transcription complex by IFNalpha/beta, but the specific PTP responsible remained unidentified. We now show that the SH2 domain containing tyrosine phosphatase PTP1D (also designated as SHPTP2, SHPTP3, PTP2C, or Syp) is constitutively associated with the IFNalpha/beta receptor and becomes tyrosine-phosphorylated in response to ligand. Furthermore, transient expression of a phosphatase-inactive mutant or the COOH-terminal SH2 domain of PTP1D causes a dominant negative effect on IFNalpha/beta-induced early response gene expression. These results provide strong evidence that PTP1D functions as a positive regulator of the IFNalpha/beta-induced Jak/Stat signal transduction pathway.
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- M David
- Division of Cytokine Biology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
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Chakrabarti R, Erickson KL. Tyrosine kinase but not phospholipid/Ca2+ signaling pathway is involved in interferon-gamma stimulation of Ia expression in macrophages. J Cell Biochem 1996; 60:235-45. [PMID: 8655634 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19960201)60:2%3c235::aid-jcb8%3e3.0.co;2-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The specific signal transduction pathway(s) involved in the induction of the expression of the MHC class II molecule, Ia, on macrophages by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) is unclear. In this paper, we assessed the role of several signal transduction pathways including calcium mobilization, phospholipase C, protein kinase C and cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinase, and the tyrosine kinase pathways. IFN-gamma was unable to mobilize intracellular calcium, unlike platelet-activating factor, which stimulated a threefold increase in cytosolic Ca2+ concentration in macrophages. Inhibition of the phospholipase C pathway by U73122 or ET-180CH3 and of phosphatidic acid phosphohydrolase by propranolol did not suppress IFN-gamma-induced Ia expression. In addition, inhibition of protein kinase C by calphostin C or cyclic nucleotide-dependent protein kinase by HA1004 did not suppress Ia expression. However, IFN-gamma-induced Ia expression was significantly suppressed when the tyrosine kinase pathway was inhibited with herbimycin A and genestein. In addition, those two inhibitors suppressed tyrosine phosphorylation of several proteins in macrophages that may or may not be involved in the induction of Ia expression. Thus, IFN-gamma used only the tyrosine kinase signaling pathway, but not the phospholipid/Ca2+ signaling pathways, to induce Ia expression in macrophages.
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- R Chakrabarti
- Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California, School of Medicine, Davis 95616-8643, USA
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Chakrabarti R, Erickson KL. Tyrosine kinase but not phospholipid/Ca2+ signaling pathway is involved in interferon-γ stimulation of I-a expression in macrophages. J Cell Biochem 1996. [DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4644(19960201)60:2<235::aid-jcb8>3.0.co;2-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Samanta A, Qian X, Greene MI. Unexpected transcriptional signals in normal and mitotically defective cells mediated through cytokine and growth factor receptors. DNA Cell Biol 1995; 14:921-30. [PMID: 7576178 DOI: 10.1089/dna.1995.14.921] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Polypeptide growth factors and cytokines mediate their biochemical functions through their responsive receptors. Known cytokine receptors do not possess intrinsic kinase domains whereas several polypeptide growth factor receptors do. Nevertheless, both classes of ligands are capable of activating sets of overlapping genes. In human epidermoid carcinoma cells, for example, both cytokines and epidermal growth factor (EGF) promote a common transcriptional activation signal through the tyrosine phosphorylation of stat91 (signal transducer and activator of transcription) proteins. The stat family of cytoplasmic proteins also appear to have dual functions. Tyrosine phosphorylated 'stats' are employed for signal transduction and, second, for activation of transcription of several genes. The transcription factor-SIE-DNA binding patterns are now known to be different for EGF and interferon-gamma IFN-gamma-treated cells. Nevertheless, in the active DNA-bound complex, the stat91 polypeptide is a component found in either EGF or INF-gamma-treated extracts. Other stat family members of transcription factors may also be present in the complexes. In this case, tyrosine phosphorylated stat91 polypeptides may form into homodimeric or heterodimeric assemblies with other stat-related transcription factors. We describe a novel stat-related factor, p93, that is found in EGF-treated A431 cell extracts but appears to be absent in bovine fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), IFN-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and untreated cells. p93 appears to be antigenically related to stat91. p185c-neu+, EGFr+ (M1), and p185c-neu- kinase inactive, EGFr+ (NEN757) expressing cells undergo different mitotic responses to EGF. M1 can respond to EGF mitotically while NEN757 cannot. Both cell lines respond to 10 ng/ml of EGF and also to IFN-gamma in transducing transcriptional activation signals to the nucleus, despite the distinct growth response to EGF. Our work has analyzed the stat pathway in these types of cells and found similar patterns of usage despite the distinct EGF-responsive features. Cytoplasmic nonreceptor tyrosine kinases Jak1 and Jak2 may be involved in the activation of stat91 and other transcription factors in EGF and IFN-gamma signaling pathways. Collectively, these studies suggest that the major EGF-stimulated mitotic growth pathways may not be absolutely linked to the stat91 signaling pathways and that such transcription complexes are more complex than previously reported.
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- A Samanta
- Center for Receptor Biology, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia 19104-6082, USA
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Haque SJ, Flati V, Deb A, Williams BR. Roles of protein-tyrosine phosphatases in Stat1 alpha-mediated cell signaling. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:25709-14. [PMID: 7592750 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.43.25709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Different Stat proteins are activated through phosphorylation of unique tyrosine residues in response to different cytokines and growth factors. Interferon-gamma activates Stat1 molecules that form homodimers and bind cognate DNA elements. Here we show that treatment of permeabilized cells with 200-500 microM peroxo-derivatives of vanadium, molybdenum, and tungsten results in the accumulation of constitutively phosphorylated Stat1 alpha molecules. In contrast, treatment of permeabilized cells with orthovanadate, vanadyl sulfate, molybdate, and tungstate at the same range of concentrations does not result in the accumulation of activated Stat1 alpha molecules in the absence of ligand. However, these compounds inhibit the inactivation of interferon-gamma-induced DNA-binding activity of Stat1 alpha. A 4-6-h exposure of the permeabilized cells to orthovanadate, molybdate, and tungstate, but not vanadyl sulfate, results in a ligand-independent activation of Stat1 alpha, which is blocked by the inhibition or depletion of NADPH oxidase activity in the cells, indicating that NADPH oxidase-catalyzed superoxide formation is required for the bioconversion of these metal oxides to the corresponding peroxo-compounds. Interestingly, ligand-independent Stat1 alpha activation by peroxo-derivatives of these transition metals does not require Jak1, Jak2, or Tyk2 kinase activity, suggesting that other kinases can phosphorylate Stat1 alpha on tyrosine 701.
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- S J Haque
- Department of Cancer Biology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio 44195, USA
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Hackett RH, Wang YD, Larner AC. Mapping of the cytoplasmic domain of the human growth hormone receptor required for the activation of Jak2 and Stat proteins. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:21326-30. [PMID: 7673169 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.36.21326] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Incubation of cells with growth hormone (GH) stimulates both tyrosine phosphorylation of the Jak2 tyrosine kinase and, in some cells, the transcription factor Stat1 alpha (1-4). When the promyeloid cell line FDC-P1 is transfected with the human growth hormone receptor, these cells can grow in the presence of GH and in the absence of interleukin-3. Growth hormone treatment of cells expressing the human growth hormone receptor did not activate Stat1 alpha. However, a complex is present in extracts prepared from growth hormone-treated cells that binds to the gamma response region, an enhancer present in the promoter of the high affinity Fc gamma R1 receptor to which cytokine-activated Stat complexes bind. When truncations of the cytoplasmic domain of the receptor are expressed in FDC-P1 cells only the membrane-proximal 80 amino acids (containing box 1 and box 2) are required for activation of both a GH-stimulated binding activity (GHSF) and tyrosine phosphorylation of Jak2. Activation of GHSF can be inhibited in a cell-free system by the addition of a glutathione S-transferase fusion protein containing these 80 amino acids. Replacement of the one tyrosine in this region of the receptor with a phenylalanine does not alter the activation of either GHSF or Jak2, suggesting that tyrosine phosphorylation of the receptor is not required for GH activation of GHSF. Moreover, a cell line expressing a receptor with only the 54 membrane-proximal amino acids of the intracellular domain (including box 1) shows constitutively tyrosine-phosphorylated Jak2 as well as GHSF binding. With this truncated receptor, there is little if any additional GH-induced tyrosine phosphorylation of Jak2 or induced binding to the gamma response region. These results define the importance of the membrane-proximal 80 amino acids of the GH receptor (with the conserved box 1 and box 2 domains) with regard to GH activation of both Jak2 and Stat(s). They also suggest that within these domains there may be positive and negative elements that regulate Jak2 function.
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- R H Hackett
- Division of Cytokine Biology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Finbloom DS, Larner AC. Induction of early response genes by interferons, interleukins, and growth factors by the tyrosine phosphorylation of latent transcription factors. Implications for chronic inflammatory diseases. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1995; 38:877-89. [PMID: 7541992 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780380702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- D S Finbloom
- Division of Cytokine Biology, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892-4555, USA
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Greenlund AC, Morales MO, Viviano BL, Yan H, Krolewski J, Schreiber RD. Stat recruitment by tyrosine-phosphorylated cytokine receptors: an ordered reversible affinity-driven process. Immunity 1995; 2:677-87. [PMID: 7796299 DOI: 10.1016/1074-7613(95)90012-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 214] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Herein, we demonstrate that purified Stat1 binds to its tyrosine-phosphorylated docking site on the IFN gamma receptor alpha chain in a direct, specific, and reversible manner. Using surface plasmon resonance, we determine the affinity (KD = 137 nM) and specificity of the interaction and define the minimum affinity needed for receptor-mediated Stat1 activation. In addition, we quantitate the relative ability of purified Stat1 to interact with tyrosine-phosphorylated binding sites on other Stat proteins. Finally, we describe experiments that imply that the unidirectional release of activated Stat1 from the IFN gamma receptor reflects the preference of free tyrosine-phosphorylated Stat1 monomers to form high avidity reciprocal homodimers rather than reassociating with the receptor binding site. Our results demonstrate that IFN gamma-induced Stat1 activation is an ordered and affinity-driven process and we propose that this process may serve as a paradigm for Stat activation by other cytokine receptors.
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- A C Greenlund
- Center for Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
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Larner AC, Finbloom DS. Protein tyrosine phosphorylation as a mechanism which regulates cytokine activation of early response genes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1995; 1266:278-87. [PMID: 7539296 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(95)00015-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Two well-defined rapid responses which occur as a consequence of growth factors binding to their cell surface receptors involve tyrosine phosphorylation of cellular proteins and the induction of the transcription of cellular genes. Recent advances have been made in purification and cloning of Src homology 2 and 3 (SH2/SH3) domain-containing transcription factors which are required for the activation of early response genes by interferons. These transcription factors are covalently modified by tyrosine phosphorylation such that they interact with enhancers needed for interferon-stimulated gene expression. The Jak family of tyrosine kinases are also an integral component in these signalling cascades. The information gained concerning interferon signalling has now been extended to include a broad network of cytokine-regulated signalling systems which use tyrosine phosphorylation of a family of structurally related proteins to activate transcription of early response genes.
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- A C Larner
- Division of Cytokine Biology, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Singh S, Aggarwal BB. Protein-tyrosine phosphatase inhibitors block tumor necrosis factor-dependent activation of the nuclear transcription factor NF-kappa B. J Biol Chem 1995; 270:10631-9. [PMID: 7738000 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.270.18.10631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Most of the inflammatory and proviral effects of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) are mediated through the activation of the nuclear transcription factor NF-kappa B. How TNF activates NF-kappa B, however, is not well understood. We examined the role of protein phosphatases in the TNF-dependent activation of NF-kappa B. Treatment of human myeloid ML-1a cells with TNF rapidly activated (within 30 min) NF-kappa B; this effect was abolished by treating cells with inhibitors of protein-tyrosine phosphatase (PTPase), including phenylarsine oxide (PAO), pervanadate, and diamide. The inhibition was dependent on the dose and occurred whether added before or at the same time as TNF. PAO also inhibited the activation even when added 15 min after the TNF treatment of cells. In contrast to inhibitors of PTPase, okadaic acid and calyculin A, which block serine-threonine phosphatase, had no effect. The effect of PTPase inhibitors was not due to the modulation of TNF receptors. Since both dithiothreitol and dimercaptopropanol reversed the inhibitory effect of PAO, critical sulfhydryl groups in the PTPase must be involved in NF-kappa B activation by TNF. PTPase inhibitors also blocked NF-kappa B activation induced by phorbol ester, ceramide, and interleukin-1 but not that activated by okadaic acid. The degradation of I kappa B protein, a critical step in NF-kappa B activation, was also abolished by the PTPase inhibitors as revealed by immunoblotting. Thus, overall, we demonstrate that PTPase is involved either directly or indirectly in the pathway leading to the activation of NF-kappa B.
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- S Singh
- Department of Clinical Immunology and Biological Therapy, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston 77030
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Ohta T, Ando O, Kurimoto M. Establishment of new interferon-gamma-resistant mutant cells with dominant phenotypes. J Interferon Cytokine Res 1995; 15:153-60. [PMID: 8590319 DOI: 10.1089/jir.1995.15.153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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We established interferon-gamma-resistant (IGR) cells from a human colon adenocarcinoma cell line, LoVo. Their resistance was extremely high, and the ED50 values of IFN-gamma were > 10(5) IU/ml. Interestingly, although IGR-5 cells were still sensitive to the antiproliferative effect of IFN-alpha, the cells lost responsiveness to the antiviral effects of both IFN-alpha and gamma. Another clone, IGR-53, was unresponsive to both the antiproliferative and antiviral effects of either IFN-alpha or gamma. Furthermore, the IFN-gamma-resistant phenotypes of IGR cells were apparently dominant to the parental LoVo cells based on complementation tests. Although IGR-53 cells lack IFN-gamma receptors, IGR-5 cells seemed to have functional IFN-gamma receptors and processing mechanisms of IFN-gamma bound to the receptors. Northern analysis showed that IGR-5 cells responded to IFN-gamma and alpha, but the enhancement of IRF-1 expression by IFN-gamma was markedly suppressed.
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- T Ohta
- Fujisaki Institute, Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Inc., Okayama, Japan
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Interferons (IFNs) comprise a family of polypeptides that exhibit diverse biological effects such as inhibition of cell growth and protection against viral infection. These activities are based mainly on the transcriptional induction of cellular genes by both type I (IFN-alpha and IFN-beta) and type II (IFN-gamma) interferons. Several of these IFN-induced early response genes have been cloned and common elements within their promoters defined. Transcription factors, such as interferon-stimulated gene factor-3, IFN-gamma activation factor and FcRF gamma, that bind to these enhancers subsequently have been isolated and their components identified. This review shall provide an overview of the DNA response elements, the components of the IFN-induced transcription factors and their mechanism of action.
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- M David
- Division of Cytokine Biology, Center of Biologics Evaluation and Research, Bethesda MD 20892, USA
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Gilmour KC, Reich NC. Signal transduction and activation of gene transcription by interferons. Gene Expr 1995; 5:1-18. [PMID: 7488857 PMCID: PMC6138031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/1994] [Accepted: 01/11/1995] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Advances in the field of interferon research have identified a signal transduction pathway that initiates at a cell surface receptor and culminates at target genes in the nucleus. The binding of interferon to a transmembrane receptor stimulates the concomitant activation of tyrosine kinases of the Janus kinase (JAK) family. Subsequently, latent cytoplasmic transcription factors are activated by tyrosine phosphorylation and function as signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs). The STATs form homomeric or heteromeric protein complexes that translocate to the nucleus to bind to specific DNA sequences in the promoters of stimulated genes. The discovery of this regulated pathway in the interferon system served as a paradigm for receptor to nucleus signal transmission by a variety of cytokines.
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- K C Gilmour
- Department of Pathology, State University of New York at Stony Brook 11794, USA
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Lamb P, Haslam J, Kessler L, Seidel HM, Stein RB, Rosen J. Rapid activation of the interferon-gamma signal transduction pathway by inhibitors of tyrosine phosphatases. JOURNAL OF INTERFERON RESEARCH 1994; 14:365-73. [PMID: 7897256 DOI: 10.1089/jir.1994.14.365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Induction of gene expression by interferon-gamma involves the activation of a latent cytoplasmic transcription factor, p91, by phosphorylation on a single tyrosyl residue. This phosphorylation triggers dimerization, nuclear translocation, and the binding of p91 to interferon-gamma response elements present in the promoters of induced genes. Phosphorylation of p91 requires the activation of two tyrosine kinases, JAK1 and JAK2, that themselves become phosphorylated on tyrosyl residues shortly after interferon-gamma binds to its receptor. The importance of tyrosine phosphorylation in this pathway prompted us to investigate the role of protein tyrosine phosphatases in the regulation of the pathway. We find that in the absence of interferon-gamma, treatment of cells with an inhibitor of tyrosine phosphatases causes a rapid and potent activation of the components of the interferon-gamma signal transduction pathway and induces an interferon-gamma-responsive gene. This suggests that tyrosine phosphatases act both to repress the interferon-gamma signal transduction pathway in the absence of interferon-gamma and to downregulate the pathway after interferon-gamma induction.
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- P Lamb
- Ligand Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, California
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Considerable progress has been made in the past few years elucidating the molecular mechanisms of cytokine signalling. The interferons (IFNs) have provided a singular system allowing the detailed characterization of a specific cytokine signalling pathway. Studies on the IFN signal transduction pathway have identified protein tyrosine kinases (PTKs) that phosphorylate signal transducers (STATs) which then bind to DNA promoter sequences and activate gene transcription. Related work has shown that JAKs and STATs are also activated in response to a variety of the cytokines. Thus the novel type of signal transduction pathway identified for the IFNs promises to be more widely utilized than anticipated.
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- M Müller
- Institut für Tierzucht und Genetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Growth hormone specifically regulates serine protease inhibitor gene transcription via gamma-activated sequence-like DNA elements. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47180-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Harroch S, Revel M, Chebath J. Interleukin-6 signaling via four transcription factors binding palindromic enhancers of different genes. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)47177-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Burdon TG, Demmer J, Clark AJ, Watson CJ. The mammary factor MPBF is a prolactin-induced transcriptional regulator which binds to STAT factor recognition sites. FEBS Lett 1994; 350:177-82. [PMID: 7520871 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(94)00757-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Site-directed mutagenesis of the three binding sites for the mammary factor MPBF in the beta-lactoglobulin (BLG) promoter demonstrates that MPBF is a transcriptional activator of the BLG gene in mammary cells. MPBF requires phosphorylation on tyrosine for maximum binding activity and binds to GAS (interferon gamma-activation site) elements which are similar to the MPBF binding sites. Prolactin induces MPBF binding activity in CHO cells and is not antigenically related to Stat1 (p91) and Stat2 (p113), suggesting that this transcription factor is likely to be another member of the STAT family of cytokine/growth factor-induced transcription factors.
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- T G Burdon
- Division of Molecular Biology, Roslin Institute (Edinburgh), Midlothian, UK
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Stimulation of the human intercellular adhesion molecule-1 promoter by interleukin-6 and interferon-gamma involves binding of distinct factors to a palindromic response element. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)31942-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Feldman G, Petricoin E, David M, Larner A, Finbloom D. Cytokines that associate with the signal transducer gp130 activate the interferon-induced transcription factor p91 by tyrosine phosphorylation. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)34122-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Recent studies on gene activation by interferons have uncovered a direct signaling pathway from the cell-surface receptor for interferons to the nucleus. Activation of JAK tyrosine kinases by interferons leads to activation, by direct tyrosine phosphorylation, of a family of latent cytoplasmic transcription factors named STATs (for signal transducers and activators of transcription), which then translocate to the nucleus to direct transcriptional activation.
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- K Shuai
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021
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A novel interferon-alpha-regulated, DNA-binding protein participates in the regulation of the IFP53/tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase gene. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37235-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Meyer D, Campbell G, Cochran B, Argetsinger L, Larner A, Finbloom D, Carter-Su C, Schwartz J. Growth hormone induces a DNA binding factor related to the interferon-stimulated 91-kDa transcription factor. J Biol Chem 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(17)37599-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Mourey RJ, Dixon JE. Protein tyrosine phosphatases: characterization of extracellular and intracellular domains. Curr Opin Genet Dev 1994; 4:31-9. [PMID: 8193537 DOI: 10.1016/0959-437x(94)90088-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) play an important role in the regulation of cell growth and differentiation. With over 30 PTPs identified, the specific functions of these enzymes are now being addressed. The identification of extracellular domain receptor-like PTP interactions and the characterization of intracellular PTP 'targeting' domains represent recent efforts in this pursuit.
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- R J Mourey
- Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, Walther Cancer Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-0606
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Hayes MP, Zoon KC. Production and action of interferons: new insights into molecular mechanisms of gene regulation and expression. PROGRESS IN DRUG RESEARCH. FORTSCHRITTE DER ARZNEIMITTELFORSCHUNG. PROGRES DES RECHERCHES PHARMACEUTIQUES 1994; 43:239-70. [PMID: 7531856 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-0348-7156-3_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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- M P Hayes
- Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892
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Fu XY, Zhang JJ. Transcription factor p91 interacts with the epidermal growth factor receptor and mediates activation of the c-fos gene promoter. Cell 1993; 74:1135-45. [PMID: 8402883 DOI: 10.1016/0092-8674(93)90734-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 256] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Transcription factor p91 contains a SH2 domain and is activated by tyrosine phosphorylation. Here we demonstrate that epidermal growth factor (EGF) induces rapid tyrosine phosphorylation and nuclear translocation of p91. Through its SH2 domain, p91 directly interacts with the EGF receptor in a ligand-dependent manner. p91 is a necessary component of an EGF-induced DNA-binding factor that recognizes a previously identified regulatory element, SIE (c-sis-inducible element), in the c-fos gene promoter. Activated p91 stimulates SIE-dependent transcription in vitro. Cotransfection of an SIE-containing reporter with a p91 expression vector shows that p91 is a positive transcriptional regulator of the c-fos gene promoter. These studies suggest that EGF uses a direct signaling pathway to control nuclear transcriptional events.
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- X Y Fu
- Department of Biochemistry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029
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The heterogeneity of the biological responses to alpha/beta and gamma interferons, the degree of overlap, synergy and antagonism appear to reflect functional interactions between these two signalling pathways. Recent biochemical and genetic experimental approaches have identified some of the effector proteins involved in interferon signalling, and have advanced our understanding of the crosstalk between these signalling networks.
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- S Pellegrini
- Unité INSERM 276, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
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