期刊
JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 145, 期 5, 页码 575-584出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jb/mvp013
关键词
chimeric receptor; conformational change; erythropoietin receptor; ligand; signal transduction
资金
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [21686077] Funding Source: KAKEN
Although cytokine receptors regulate many cellular functions, contribution of receptors domains and their conformation to signal transduction remains unclear. In this study, we designed a series of chimeric erythropoietin receptor (EpoR) variants encoding a haemagglutinin epitope-tagged anti-fluorescein single-chain Fv and different combinations of extracellular D1/D2 domain(s) of EpoR as the extracellular domain to allow the receptor to be activated by multiple ligands. Furthermore, one to four Ala residues were inserted at the intracellular juxtamembrane region of each chimeric receptor to modulate the conformation of the intracellular domain. When the chimeric receptors were expressed in Ba/F3 cells, cell-surface expression levels of chimeric receptors without D2 domain were markedly lowered, suggesting a role of D2 domain for stabilizing the receptor. Furthermore, the ligand-dependent cell proliferation was strongly affected by extracellular domain structures and the number of inserted Ala residues. Moreover, the conformational change of chimeric receptors was induced by various ligands to detect the phosphorylation of JAK2, STAT5 and ERK2, whose activations are characteristics of EpoR signalling. Consequently, the phosphorylation pattern of these signal transducers was significantly influenced by ligands and receptor variants. These results indicate that signal transduction of EpoR is strongly affected by conformation of both extracellular and intracellular domains.
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