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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages 407-419Publisher
AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.1.407-419.2004
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES [R01AI034420, R01AI032489, R37AI034420] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIAID NIH HHS [AI32489, AI34420, R37 AI034420, R01 AI032489] Funding Source: Medline
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A large number of extracellular polypeptides bound to their cognate receptors activate the transcription factor STAT3 by phosphorylation of tyrosine 705. Supplemental activation occurs when serine 727 is also phosphorylated. STAT3 deletion in mice leads to embryonic lethality. We have produced mice with alanine substituted for serine 727 in STAT3 (the SA allele) to examine the function of serine 727 phosphorylation in vivo. Embryonic fibroblasts from SA/SA mice had similar to50% of the transcriptional response of wild-type cells. However, SA/SA mice were viable and grossly normal. STAT3 wild-type/null (+/-) animals were also normal and were interbred with SA/SA mice to study SA/- mice. The SA/- mice progressed through gestation, showing 10 to 15% reduced birth weight, three-fourths died soon after birth, and the SA/- survivors reached only 50 to 60% of normal size at 1 week of age. The lethality and decreased growth were accompanied by altered insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) levels in serum, establishing a role for the STAT3 serine phosphorylation acting through IGF-1 in embryonic and perinatal growth. The SA/- survivors have decreased thymocyte number associated with increased apoptosis, but unexpectedly normal STAT3-dependent liver acute phase response. These animals offer the opportunity to study defined reductions in the transcriptional capacity of a widely used signaling pathway.
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