'Tuning' of type I interferon-induced Jak-STAT1 signaling by calcium-dependent kinases in macrophages

Nat Immunol. 2008 Feb;9(2):186-93. doi: 10.1038/ni1548. Epub 2007 Dec 16.

Abstract

Immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM)-coupled receptors modulate the amplitude and nature of macrophage responses to Toll-like receptor and cytokine receptor stimulation. However, the molecular mechanisms enabling this receptor crosstalk are not known. Here we investigated the function of the calcium-dependent kinases CaMK and Pyk2 'downstream' of ITAM-associated receptors in the regulation of cytokine-induced activation of Jak kinases and STAT transcription factors. CaMK and Pyk2 relayed signals from integrins and the ITAM-containing adaptor DAP12 to augment interleukin 10- and interferon-alpha-induced Jak activation and STAT1-dependent gene expression. CaMK inhibition suppressed STAT1-mediated interferon-alpha signaling in a mouse model of systemic lupus erythematosus. Our results associate Pyk2 and Jak kinases with the linkage of signals emanating from cytokine and heterologous ITAM-dependent receptors.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Animals
  • Calcium / metabolism
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Kinase / metabolism*
  • Cells, Cultured
  • Focal Adhesion Kinase 2 / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Interferon Type I / pharmacology*
  • Janus Kinases / metabolism*
  • Macrophages / drug effects*
  • Macrophages / immunology
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Mice
  • Phosphorylation
  • Receptors, Immunologic / metabolism
  • STAT1 Transcription Factor / metabolism*
  • Signal Transduction
  • Tyrosine / metabolism

Substances

  • Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing
  • Interferon Type I
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Receptors, Immunologic
  • STAT1 Transcription Factor
  • TYROBP protein, human
  • Tyrosine
  • Focal Adhesion Kinase 2
  • Janus Kinases
  • Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Kinase
  • Calcium