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Published on: June 9, 2017
Transmembrane Protein Aptamer Induces Cooperative Signaling by the EPO Receptor and the Cytokine Receptor β-Common
Li He1, Emily B Cohen1, Anne P B Edwards1
1Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208005, New Haven, CT 06520-8005, USA.
Abstract:
The erythropoietin receptor (EPOR) plays an essential role in erythropoiesis and other cellular processes by forming distinct signaling complexes composed of EPOR homodimers or hetero-oligomers between the EPOR and another receptor, but the mechanism of heteroreceptor assembly and signaling is poorly understood. We report here a 46-residue, artificial transmembrane protein aptamer, designated ELI-3, that binds and activates the EPOR and induces growth factor independence in murine BaF3 cells expressing the EPOR. ELI-3 requires the transmembrane domain and JAK2-binding sites of the EPOR for activity, but not the cytoplasmic tyrosines that mediate canonical EPOR signaling. Instead, ELI-3-induced proliferation and activation of JAK/STAT signaling requires the transmembrane and cytoplasmic domains of the cytokine receptor β-common subunit (βcR) in addition to the EPOR. Moreover, ELI-3 fails to induce erythroid differentiation of primary human hematopoietic progenitor cells but inhibits nonhematopoietic cell death induced by serum withdrawal.
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