il12 and stat4 dependent signaling pathway in th1 development
| PAG Title | il12 and stat4 dependent signaling pathway in th1 development |
| PAG ID | WAG000011 |
| Type | P |
| Source Link |  BioCarta |
| Publication Reference | NA |
| PAG Description | Interleukin-12 (IL-12) promotes cell-mediated immunity by inducing Th1 cell differentiation and activation of both T cells and NK cells. Dendritic cells and macrophages in peripheral tissues act as antigen presenting cells and secrete IL-12 as one component of the antigen response, Th1 differentiation. The role of IL-12 in cellular immunity is largely mediated by the STAT-4 transcription factor. STAT-4 is essential for IL-12 activity and the phenotype of mice lacking STAT-4 is very similar to the phenotype of mice lacking the IL-12 receptor or IL-12. The role of IL-12 in Th1 differentiation may not be to induce the Th1 cell fate, but to stimulate growth of cells determined for the Th1 cell fate by the T-bet transcription factor. Several sigling pathways contribute to IL-12 activation of STAT-4 to regulate cell-mediated immune responses. The JAK kises such as JAK2 and TYK2 interact with the activated IL-12 receptor and tyrosine phosphorylate the IL-12 receptor and STAT-4. IL-12 also activates a map kise pathway activating the map kise kise MKK6 and p38. Phosphorylation of STAT-4 on serine 721 by p38 contributes to the full transcriptiol activation of genes by STAT-4. Some of the events downstream of IL-12 appear to include genes activated indirectly by STAT-4, such as genes activated by the transcription factor ERM. ERM is in the Ets family of transcription factors, is activated by IL-12 and activates IL-12 inducible genes such as Interferon-gamma that are not activated by STAT-4 itself. Interferon-gamma transcription in T cells is also activated by other sigls such as from the T cell receptor. Other proteins activated transcriptiolly downstream of IL-12 and STAT-4 include the chemokine receptor CCR5 and IL-18 and its receptor. Some viruses, including HIV, repress cell-mediated immunity by blocking IL-12 sigling. |
| Species | Homo sapiens |
| Quality Metric Scores | nCoCo Score: 1,299 |
| Information Content | Rich |
| Other IDs | |
| Base PAG ID | WAG000011 |
| Human Phenotyte Annotation | |
| Curator | PAGER curation team |
| Curator Contact | PAGER-contact@googlegroups.com |
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