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. 1993 May 1;90(9):4201–4205. doi: 10.1073/pnas.90.9.4201

Functional coupling of the src-family protein tyrosine kinases p59fyn and p53/56lyn with the interleukin 2 receptor: implications for redundancy and pleiotropism in cytokine signal transduction.

N Kobayashi 1, T Kono 1, M Hatakeyama 1, Y Minami 1, T Miyazaki 1, R M Perlmutter 1, T Taniguchi 1
PMCID: PMC46474  PMID: 8483935

Abstract

The binding of interleukin 2 (IL-2) to the IL-2 receptor (IL-2R) induces a rapid increase in tyrosine phosphorylation of cellular proteins. In a previous study, we have shown that p56lck (lck), a src-family protein tyrosine kinase (src-PTK), physically and functionally associates with the IL-2R beta chain (IL-2R beta). To further investigate a role of src-PTKs in IL-2 signaling, we analyzed a mouse pro-B-cell line, in which lck is not expressed detectably. We observed that in this cell line, IL-2 induces activation of at least two src-PTKs, p59fyn (fyn) and p53/56lyn (lyn). Interestingly, stimulation of this cell line with IL-3 also induces activation of src-PTKs. The activation of fyn or lyn seems to be selective for stimulation with IL-2 or IL-3 since stimulation with IL-6 fails to activate them. Furthermore, we provide evidence for the physical association of fyn with IL-2R beta. Taken together with previous results, our current study suggests that different src-PTKs, each of which is expressed in a cell-type-specific manner, can participate in the IL-2 signal transduction.

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