PMID: 9646179Jul 1, 1998Paper

Cytokine receptors: structures and signal transduction

International Reviews of Immunology
M OnishiT Kitamura

Abstract

The characteristic features of cytokines are functional pleiotropy and redundancy. Each cytokine is produced by a variety of cell types and acts on a wide range of target cells and tissues. Many cytokines have overlapping biological activities in the same cells. It was originally thought that each cytokine has a specific receptor and a unique signal transduction system. However, extensive studies on cytokines and their receptors revealed that many cytokines share receptor subunits and signal transduction system, and that biological functions of a single cytokine can vary depending on the status of the cells. Therefore, it is important to know the structure and function of cytokine receptors to understand the pleiotropy and redundancy as well as specificity of cytokines. Among signal transduction pathways, recently identified Jak/STAT pathway, which connects activation of the receptor complexes and transcription of various genes directly, would give us further insights in the mechanisms of cytokine action.

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