PMID: 7518712Mar 1, 1994Paper

Cytokine receptors and signal transduction

Baillière's Clinical Haematology
J N IhleF W Quelle

Abstract

The past few years have seen an explosion in the identification, cloning and characterization of cytokines and their receptors. The pleiotropic effects of many of the growth factors and the considerable redundancy in the actions of growth factors have contributed to a mass of descriptive literature that often seems to defy summary. Only recently have common concepts begun to emerge. First, cytokines mediate their effects through a large family of receptors that have evolved from a common progenitor and retain structural and functional similarities. Within the haematopoietic system, the cytokines are not usually instructive in differentiation, but rather supportive, and may contribute to some differentiation-specific responses. The patterns of expression of cytokine receptors are therefore a product of differentiation and provide for changes in physiological regulation. The second important concept that is emerging is that the cytokines mediate their mitogenic effects through a common signal-transducing pathway involving tyrosine phosphorylation. Thus, although the cytokine receptor superfamily members do not have intrinsic protein tyrosine kinase activity, by coupling to activation of tyrosine phosphorylation they may affect ce...Continue Reading

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