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IMMUNITY
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 561-571Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)00055-8
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Janus kinases (Jaks) play an important role in signal transduction via cytokine receptors. Tyk2 is a Janus kinase, and we developed tyk2-deficient mice to study the requirement for tyk2 in vivo. Tyk2-deficient mice show no overt developmental abnormalities; however, they display a lack of responsiveness to a small amount of IFN alpha, although a high concentration of IFN alpha can fully transduce its signal even in the absence of tyk2. Furthermore, IL-12-induced T cell function is defective in these mice. In contrast, these mice respond normally to IL-6 and IL-10, both of which activate tyk2 in vitro. These observations demonstrate that tyk2 plays only a restricted role in mediating IFN alpha -dependent signaling while being required in mediating IL-12-dependent biological responses.
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