标题:A 100-kilodalton protein is associated with the murine interleukin 2 receptor: biochemical evidence that p100 is distinct from the alpha and beta chains.
期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1990
卷号:87
期号:12
页码:4869-4873
DOI:10.1073/pnas.87.12.4869
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Two proteins that specifically bind the T-cell growth factor interleukin 2 (IL-2) have been identified previously on the surface of T cells; these proteins have been designated IL-2R alpha and IL-2R beta for the alpha and beta chains of the IL-2 receptor (IL-2R). The association of these independent binding proteins with each other on the surface of activated T cells correlates with the generation of high-affinity binding sites. These high-affinity sites transduce the major mitogenic signal of IL-2, yet the mechanisms of association of the alpha and beta chains with each other as well as signal transduction in response to IL-2 are unknown. Cotransfection experiments of cDNAs encoding the alpha and beta chains in T cells and fibroblasts have suggested functional requirements for other T cell-specific factor(s). We now provide biochemical evidence for a distinct 100-kDa protein that interacts with the alpha or beta chains, or both, on the surface of the IL-2-dependent cell line CTLL-2 as well as activated murine splenocytes. This same 100-kDa protein is capable of being chemically cross-linked to 125I-labeled IL-2.