Sentences with phrase «roles of the protein tyrosine»

Research Focus: My research projects are focused on the roles of protein tyrosine phosphatases (PTPs) in diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.

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During the past decade, data on the putative roles of STAT proteins in mediating gene expression without tyrosine phosphorylation have been accumulating.

In 2005, the identification of an activating mutation in JAK2 (the V617F mutation) as a STAT5 - activating and disease - causing genetic alteration in a significant proportion of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) has emphasized the oncogenic role of the JAK tyrosine kinases in hematologic malignancies.2 — 5 JAK2 is a member of the Janus tyrosine kinase family comprising three other mammalian non-receptor tyrosine kinases (JAK1, JAK3 and TYK2) that associate with cytokine receptors lacking intrinsic kinase activity to mediate cytokine - induced signal transduction and activation of STAT transcription factors.6 All JAKs share a similar protein structure and contain a tyrosine kinase domain at the C - terminus flanked by a catalytically inactive pseudokinase domain with kinase - regulatory activity, by an atypical SH2 domain and by a FERM domain that mediates association to the membrane - proximal region of the cytokine receptors.7, 8 Soon after the discovery of JAK2 V617F, we and others described that activating JAK1 mutations are relatively common in adult patients with T - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and participate in ALL development allowing for constitutive activation of STAT5.9 — 11 Several STAT5 - activating JAK1 mutations were also reported in AML and breast cancer patients.10

Here, we have shown for the first time that the unphosphorylated STAT2 could play an important role in RIG - G gene expression by interacting with IRF - 9, further reinforcing the idea that STAT proteins could function as transcription factors in the absence of tyrosine phosphorylation.

External cues act on tyrosine kinase proteins embedded in the cell membrane to induce a cascade of signals with a vital role in regulating cell proliferation.