Absence of an Essential Role for Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin Receptor in Murine B-Cell Development
Open Access
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Molecular and Cellular Biology
- Vol. 24 (6) , 2584-2592
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mcb.24.6.2584-2592.2004
Abstract
The murine cytokine thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) supports the development of B220+ IgM+ immature B cells and induces thymocyte proliferation in vitro. Human TSLP, by contrast, activates CD11c+ dendritic cells, but not B or T cells. Recent studies have demonstrated that the receptor for TSLP consists of a heterodimer of the interleukin 7 (IL-7) α chain and a novel protein that resembles the hematopoietic cytokine receptor common γ chain. We examined signal transduction by the γ-like chains using chimeric receptor proteins. The cytoplasmic domain of the human, but not of the murine, γ-like chain, activates Jak2 and Stat5 and supports the proliferation of hematopoietic cell lines. In order to assess the role of the murine γ-like chain in vivo, we generated γ-like chain-deficient mice. Receptor-deficient mice are unresponsive to TSLP but exhibit no obvious phenotypic defects. In particular, hematopoietic cell development appeared normal. B-cell development, including the IgM+ compartment, was unaffected by loss of the TSLP pathway, as were T lymphopoiesis and lymphocyte proliferation in vitro. Cytokine receptors that utilize the common γ chain signal through the lymphocyte-specific kinase Jak3. Mice deficient in Jak3 exhibit a SCID phenotype but harbor a residual B220+ splenic lymphocyte population. We demonstrate here that this residual lymphocyte population is lost in mice lacking both the γ-like chain and Jak3.Keywords
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