Abstract
Through the study of transcriptional activation in response to interferon α (IFN-α) and interferon γ (IFN-γ), a previously unrecognized direct signal transduction pathway to the nucleus has been uncovered: IFN-receptor interaction at the cell surface leads to the activation of kinases of the Jak family that then phosphorylate substrate proteins called STATs (signal transducers and activators of transcription). The phosphorylated STAT proteins move to the nucleus, bind specific DNA elements, and direct transcription. Recognition of the molecules involved in the IFN-α and IFN-γ pathway has led to discoveries that a number of STAT family members exist and that other polypeptide ligands also use the Jak-STAT molecules in signal transduction.
Keywords
statJAK-STAT signaling pathwaySignal transductionCell biologySTAT4STAT proteinPhosphorylationBiologyJanus kinaseTranscription factorTranscription (linguistics)KinaseInterferonSTAT2ChemistryBiochemistryGeneticsSTAT3GeneReceptor tyrosine kinase
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James Darnell,
lan M. Kerr,
George R. Stark
(1994).
Jak-STAT Pathways and Transcriptional Activation in Response to IFNs and Other Extracellular Signaling Proteins.
Science
, 264
(5164)
, 1415-1421.
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.8197455
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