Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32029621›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2020

Mechanism of homodimeric cytokine receptor activation and dysregulation by oncogenic mutations.

Stephan Wilmes, Maximillian Hafer, Joni Vuorio, Julie A Tucker, Hauke Winkelmann, Sara Löchte, Tess A Stanly, Katiuska D Pulgar Prieto, Chetan Poojari, Vivek Sharma and 8 more

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 107 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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107citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
13.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

107 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Stephan WilmesDepartment of Biology and Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, University of Osnabrück, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4112-710X
Maximillian HaferDepartment of Biology and Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, University of Osnabrück, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0853-2637
Joni VuorioDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0003-2404-4545
Julie A TuckerYork Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6119-676X
Hauke WinkelmannDepartment of Biology and Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, University of Osnabrück, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany.
Sara LöchteDepartment of Biology and Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, University of Osnabrück, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany.
Tess A StanlyYork Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3064-0925
Katiuska D Pulgar PrietoYork Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Chetan PoojariDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0001-6575-221X
Vivek SharmaDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.ORCID 0000-0002-8838-3151
Christian P RichterDepartment of Biology and Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, University of Osnabrück, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany.
Rainer KurreDepartment of Biology and Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, University of Osnabrück, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6872-6567
Stevan R HubbardSkirball Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2707-9383
K Christopher GarciaHoward Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9273-0278
Ignacio MoragaDivision of Cell Signalling and Immunology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9909-0701
Ilpo VattulainenDepartment of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. ilpo.vattulainen@helsinki.fi ian.hitchcock@york.ac.uk piehler@uos.de.ORCID 0000-0001-7408-3214
Ian S HitchcockYork Biomedical Research Institute and Department of Biology, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK. ilpo.vattulainen@helsinki.fi ian.hitchcock@york.ac.uk piehler@uos.de.ORCID 0000-0001-7170-6703
Jacob PiehlerDepartment of Biology and Center of Cellular Nanoanalytics, University of Osnabrück, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany. ilpo.vattulainen@helsinki.fi ian.hitchcock@york.ac.uk piehler@uos.de.ORCID 0000-0002-2143-2270
Osnabrück University · DEUniversity of Helsinki · FIUniversity of York · GBHoward Hughes Medical Institute · USNew York University · USUniversity of Dundee · GB

Funding

Structure-based engineering of immune cytokine signalingR01AI051321 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Kenan Christopher GARCIA · 2002 to 2026
$5.6M
Structure, function and engineering of immune cytokine receptor signalingR37AI051321 · NIAID · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI GARCIA, KENAN CHRISTOPHER · 2013 to 2022
$4.2M
Structural and Biochemical Studies of Jak2R01AI101256 · NIAID · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HUBBARD, STEVAN R. · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
Cancer Research UK 24593European Research CouncilNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI051321NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI101256NIAID NIH HHS R37 AI051321Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Homodimeric class I cytokine receptors are assumed to exist as preformed dimers that are activated by ligand-induced conformational changes. We quantified the dimerization of three prototypic class I cytokine receptors in the plasma membrane of living cells by single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. Spatial and spatiotemporal correlation of individual receptor subunits showed ligand-induced dimerization and revealed that the associated Janus kinase 2 (JAK2) dimerizes through its pseudokinase domain. Oncogenic receptor and hyperactive JAK2 mutants promoted ligand-independent dimerization, highlighting the formation of receptor dimers as the switch responsible for signal activation. Atomistic modeling and molecular dynamics simulations based on a detailed energetic analysis of the interactions involved in dimerization yielded a mechanistic blueprint for homodimeric class I cytokine receptor activation and its dysregulation by individual mutations.

Indexed as

Protein MultimerizationAmino Acid SubstitutionCarcinogenesisCell MembraneHeLa CellsHumansJanus Kinase 2LigandsMicroscopy, FluorescenceModels, MolecularMutationNitrilesPhenylalaninePyrazolesPyrimidinesReceptors, ErythropoietinJanus Kinase 2LigandsNitrilesPhenylalaninePyrazolesPyrimidinesReceptors, ErythropoietinReceptors, SomatotropinReceptors, ThrombopoietinruxolitinibValine

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PMID32029621
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