title: Cloning of murine Stat6 and human Stat6, Stat proteins that are tyrosine phosphorylated in responses to IL-4 and IL-3 but are not required for mitogenesis.
abstract: By searching a database of expressed sequences, we identified a member of the signal transducers and activators of transcription (Stat) family of proteins. Human and murine full-length cDNA clones were obtained and sequenced. The sequence of the human cDNA was identical to the recently published sequence for interleukin-4 (IL-4)-Stat (J. Hou, U. Schindler, W.J. Henzel, T.C. Ho, M. Brasseur, and S. L. McKnight, Science 265:1701-1706, 1994), while the murine Stat6 amino acid and nucleotide sequences were 83 and 84% identical to the human sequences, respectively. Using Stat6-specific antiserum, we demonstrated that Stat6 is rapidly tyrosine phosphorylated following stimulation of appropriate cell lines with IL-4 or IL-3 but is not detectably phosphorylated following stimulation with IL-2, IL-12, or erythropoietin. In contrast, IL-2, IL-3, and erythropoietin induce the tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat5 while IL-12 uniquely induces the tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat4. Inducible tyrosine phosphorylation of Stat6 requires the membrane-distal region of the IL-4 receptor alpha chain. This region of the receptor is not required for cell growth, demonstrating that Stat6 tyrosine phosphorylation does not contribute to mitogenesis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee 38105, USA.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Quelle
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimoda
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Thierfelder
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Ruben
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Cleveland
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Pierce
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Keegan
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nelms
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D002460:Cell Line; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D007377:Interleukin-3 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015847:Interleukin-4 / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051379:Mice; D008938:Mitosis / Q000187:drug effects; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010766:Phosphorylation; D050800:STAT6 Transcription Factor; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D015534:Trans-Activators / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D007377:Interleukin-3; D050800:STAT6 Transcription Factor; C494101:STAT6 protein, human; C494100:Stat6 protein, mouse; D015534:Trans-Activators; D014157:Transcription Factors; D015847:Interleukin-4