title: Transmembrane signaling by the interleukin-2 receptor: progress and conundrums.
abstract: Activation of the multicomponent interleukin-2 receptor (IL-2R) complex leads to a rapid increase in tyrosine phosphorylation of a number of cellular proteins including the IL-2R beta and IL-2R gamma chains of the IL-2R and the RAF-1 serine threonine kinase. In addition, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI-3K) protein and activity can be immunoprecipitated with anti-phosphotyrosine and anti-IL-2R beta antibodies from IL-2-activated but not resting T lymphocytes. We have demonstrated that the SH2 (SRC homology 2) domains of the 85 kDa subunit of PI-3K are sufficient to mediate binding of the PI-3K complex to tyrosine phosphorylated, but not non-phosphorylated IL-2R beta, suggesting that tyrosine phosphorylation is an integral component of the activation of PI-3K by the IL-2R. Since none of the members of the IL-2R complex contains an intrinsic tyrosine kinase domain, IL-2-induced tyrosine phosphorylation must be the consequence of activation of intracellular tyrosine kinases. SRC family members including lck, lyn and fyn have been demonstrated to associate with IL-2R beta through binding of the kinase domain to the acidic domain of IL-2R beta. However, we have demonstrated that the serine rich (SD) region of the cytosolic domain of IL-2R beta is also required for association of a tyrosine kinase with the IL-2R complex and that IL-2 can induce proliferation and tyrosine phosphorylation in cell lines which lack the known SRC family kinases expressed by T lymphocytes. Thus members of other kinase families besides SRC may also be involved in mediating IL-2 signal transduction. Biochemical studies and studies of cells expressing mutant IL-2 receptors indicate that IL-2-induced tyrosine kinase activation initiates a complex signaling cascade. The cascade includes SRC family kinase members such as lck, fyn, and lyn, activation of Raf-1 and PI-3K, and ras, and increased expression of the fos, fra-1, and jun protooncogenes. In addition, ligation of the IL-2R leads to rapid increases in myc expression and more delayed increases in the expression of the cdc2 and cdk2 kinases and the cyclins through a tyrosine phosphorylation independent pathway. Whether other biochemical processes initiated by IL-2R ligation, including activation of the MAP2, p70S6 and p90RSK serine threonine kinases, activation of NF-kappa B, and increased expression of Raf-1, Pim-1, bcl-2, IL-2R alpha and IL-2R beta, are consequences of the IL-2-induced tyrosine kinase cascade remains to be determined.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Oncology Research, Toronto General Hospital, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Mills
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schmandt
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gibson
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Leung
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: Y F
authors.initials: YF
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: D R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Branch
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Radvanyi
authors.forename: K E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Truitt
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D015375:Receptors, Interleukin-2 / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D015375:Receptors, Interleukin-2; D011505:Protein-Tyrosine Kinases