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A TIRF Microscopy Technique for Real-time, Simultaneous Imaging of the TCR and its Associated Signaling Proteins
Published on: March 22, 2012
[The classes, structures, functions and signaling transduction of cytokine receptors]
J Lu1
1Department of Pathophysiology, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai.
Abstract:
There are many kinds of cytokine receptors that belong to different receptor families. Most cytokine receptors function as: (1) receptor tyrosine kinase and tyrosine-kinase-associated receptor; (2) receptor serine/threonine kinase; (3) G-protein linked receptor. Following binding with cytokines and activation, the receptors trigger different cascade of intracellular protein phosphorylation to transduction signals, thereby altering the cell's pattern of gene expression and leading to biological effects.
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