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Abstract

Previous studies implicate the nonreceptor protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) p59fyn in the propagation of signals from the B cell antigen receptor. To elucidate the functions of this kinase, we examined B cell responsiveness in mice engineered to lack the hematopoietic isoform of p59fyn. Remarkably, antigen receptor signaling was only modestly defective in fynTnull B cells. In contrast, signaling from the interleukin (IL)-5 receptor which ordinarily provides a comitogenic stimulus with antiimmunoglobulin, was completely blocked. Our results document the importance of p59fynT in IL-5 responses in B cells, and they support a general model for cytokine receptor signal transduction involving the simultaneous recruitment of at least three families of PTK.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-1995

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Journal of Experimental Medicine, v. 182, no. 3, p. 811-820.

© 1995 Rockefeller University Press

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.182.3.811

Funding Information

This work was supported in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health (CA45682).

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