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SUBMITTER: Bezbradica JS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4137873 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bezbradica Jelena S JS Rosenstein Rachel K RK DeMarco Richard A RA Brodsky Igor I Medzhitov Ruslan R
Nature immunology 20140309 4
Diverse cellular responses to external cues are controlled by a small number of signal-transduction pathways, but how the specificity of functional outcomes is achieved remains unclear. Here we describe a mechanism for signal integration based on the functional coupling of two distinct signaling pathways widely used in leukocytes: the ITAM pathway and the Jak-STAT pathway. Through the use of the receptor for interferon-γ (IFN-γR) and the ITAM adaptor Fcγ as an example, we found that IFN-γ modifi ...[more]