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SUBMITTER: LaPorte SL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2265076 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
LaPorte Sherry L SL Juo Z Sean ZS Vaclavikova Jana J Colf Leremy A LA Qi Xiulan X Heller Nicola M NM Keegan Achsah D AD Garcia K Christopher KC
Cell 20080101 2
Interleukin-4 and Interleukin-13 are cytokines critical to the development of T cell-mediated humoral immune responses, which are associated with allergy and asthma, and exert their actions through three different combinations of shared receptors. Here we present the crystal structures of the complete set of type I (IL-4R alpha/gamma(c)/IL-4) and type II (IL-4R alpha/IL-13R alpha1/IL-4, IL-4R alpha/IL-13R alpha1/IL-13) ternary signaling complexes. The type I complex reveals a structural basis fo ...[more]