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First published online December 30, 2003

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A different STATus quo in Dictyostelium

The interaction between SH2 domains and phosphotyrosine residues is central to many signalling pathways in metazoans, including those that involve STATs (signal transducers and activators of transcription). Dictyostelium is the only non-metazoan known to have functional SH2 domains and Zhukovskaya et al. now describe the SH2 domain protein Dd-STATb, the third known Dictyostelium STAT (see p. 447). Although the SH2 domain of Dd-STATb is highly divergent from other SH2 domains, Dd-STATb is biologically functional: Dd-STATb-null cells have a slight growth disadvantage when co-cultured with parental cells, and gene expression patterns are altered in Dd-STATb- cells when compared with Dd-STATb+ cells. Like other STATS, Dd-STATb exists as a homodimer. But, say the researchers, homodimerisation of Dd-STAT is unlikely to occur through the orthodox SH2 domain:phosphotyrosine interaction seen in animal STATs, and so may represent a non-canonical signalling mechanism not seen in animals.

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Natasha V. Zhukovskaya,, Masashi Fukuzawa,, Masatsune Tsujioka, Keith A. Jermyn, Takefumi Kawata, Tomoaki Abe, Marketa Zvelebil, and Jeffrey G. Williams
Development 2004 131: 447-458. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

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