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International Journal of Cell Cloning, Vol 9, 274-300, Copyright © 1991 by AlphaMed Press

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Hematopoietic growth factor receptors

MF Brizzi, GC Avanzi and L Pegoraro
Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Oncologia Umana, Universita di Torino, Italy.

The molecular cloning for most of the hematopoietic growth factor receptors has been achieved over the past few years and revealed that they can by assigned to two discrete receptor families, namely the hematopoietic growth factor superfamily (HRS) and the receptor tyrosine kinase family (RTK). The members of the HRS, including granulocyte- macrophage colony-stimulating factor receptor (GM-CSF-R), interleukin 3 receptor (IL-3-R), granulocyte CSF receptor (G-CSF-R) and erythropoietin receptor (Epo-R), share a common binding domain and the absence of a tyrosine kinase domain in their cytoplasmic portion. In some cases (e.g., GM-CSF-R), the high-affinity receptor structure is obtained through the association of the low-affinity binding chain (alpha chain) with an accessory protein (beta chain). It is conceivable that this protein might also represent the common subunit shared by GM- CSF-R and by IL-3-R when they are co-expressed to form the putative GM- CSF-R/IL-3-R complex. Although tyrosine phosphorylation following ligand receptor activation seems to be a common event in the HRS, its role in the signal transduction mechanisms is unknown. Due to the structural analogies among the members of this family any new insight into one particular receptor member, such as its subunit structure and its signal transduction pathways, will be generalizable to the other family members. The subclass III of the RTK family, including the CSF-1- R and c-kit, is characterized by an additional insert into the kinase domain that recognizes and binds protein substrates. Ligand induced activation of the kinase domain and its signaling potential are mediated by receptor oligomerization which stabilizes interactions between adjacent cytoplasmic domains and leads to activation of kinase function by molecular interaction. Interestingly, the receptors included in this subclass are the products of well known cellular proto- oncogenes. A large variety of structural alteration found in receptor- derived oncogene products may lead to constitutive activation of receptor signals that, consequently, result in the subversion of the mechanisms controlling the cell growth.


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