Biology:Leukemia inhibitory factor receptor

Short description: Polyfunctional cytokine

Generic protein structure example

LIFR also known as CD118 (Cluster of Differentiation 118), is a subunit of a receptor for leukemia inhibitory factor.

Function

The leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) is a polyfunctional cytokine that affects the differentiation, survival, and proliferation of a wide variety of cells in the adult and the embryo. LIF action appears to be mediated through a high-affinity receptor complex composed of a low-affinity LIF binding chain (LIF receptor) and a high-affinity converter subunit, glycoprotein 130 (IL6ST, gp130). Both LIFR and gp130 are members of a family of cytokine receptors that includes components of the receptors for the majority of hematopoietic cytokines and for cytokines that affect other systems, including the ciliary neurotrophic factor, growth hormone and prolactin.

Interactions

Leukemia inhibitory factor receptor has been shown to interact with glycoprotein 130.

LIFR has also been identified as a breast cancer metastasis suppressor that functions through the Hippo-YAP pathway. LIFR is down regulated in a number of breast carcinomas and may serve a prognostic tool.

See also

• Cluster of differentiation

Further reading

• "Structural and functional studies on the leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIF-R): gene and soluble form of LIF-R, and cytoplasmic domain of LIF-R required for differentiation and growth arrest of myeloid leukemic cells". Leukemia & Lymphoma 37 (5–6): 517–25. May 2000. doi:10.3109/10428190009058503. PMID 11042511. 
• "Leukemia inhibitory factor in human reproduction". Fertility and Sterility 76 (6): 1091–6. December 2001. doi:10.1016/S0015-0282(01)02878-3. PMID 11730732. 
• "Oncostatin M binds the high-affinity leukemia inhibitory factor receptor". The New Biologist 4 (1): 61–5. January 1992. PMID 1536831. 
• "The IL-6 signal transducer, gp130: an oncostatin M receptor and affinity converter for the LIF receptor". Science 255 (5050): 1434–7. March 1992. doi:10.1126/science.1542794. PMID 1542794. Bibcode: 1992Sci...255.1434G. 
• "Leukemia inhibitory factor receptor is structurally related to the IL-6 signal transducer, gp130". The EMBO Journal 10 (10): 2839–48. October 1991. doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1991.tb07833.x. PMID 1915266. 
• "Ciliary neurotrophic factor/leukemia inhibitory factor/interleukin 6/oncostatin M family of cytokines induces tyrosine phosphorylation of a common set of proteins overlapping those induced by other cytokines and growth factors". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 269 (15): 11648–55. April 1994. doi:10.1016/S0021-9258(19)78174-5. PMID 7512571. 
• "Phosphorylation of the human leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) receptor by mitogen-activated protein kinase and the regulation of LIF receptor function by heterologous receptor activation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 92 (12): 5361–5. June 1995. doi:10.1073/pnas.92.12.5361. PMID 7777512. Bibcode: 1995PNAS...92.5361S. 
• "The leukemia inhibitory factor receptor (LIFR) gene is located within a cluster of cytokine receptor loci on mouse chromosome 15 and human chromosome 5p12-p13". Genomics 18 (1): 148–50. October 1993. doi:10.1006/geno.1993.1441. PMID 8276403. 
• "Stage-specific expression of cytokine and receptor messenger ribonucleic acids in human preimplantation embryos". Biology of Reproduction 53 (4): 974–81. October 1995. doi:10.1095/biolreprod53.4.974. PMID 8547494. 
• "Expression of leukaemia inhibitory factor (LIF) receptor in human placenta: a possible role for LIF in the growth and differentiation of trophoblasts". Human Reproduction 10 (7): 1907–11. July 1995. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a136205. PMID 8583009. 
• "Structure of the gene encoding the human differentiation-stimulating factor/leukemia inhibitory factor receptor". Journal of Biochemistry 120 (1): 201–5. July 1996. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.jbchem.a021386. PMID 8864865. 
• "Identification of an upstream enhancer within a functional promoter of the human leukemia inhibitory factor receptor gene and its alternative promoter usage". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 272 (44): 27957–65. October 1997. doi:10.1074/jbc.272.44.27957. PMID 9346946. 
• "Reconstitution of the functional mouse oncostatin M (OSM) receptor: molecular cloning of the mouse OSM receptor beta subunit". Blood 93 (3): 804–15. February 1999. doi:10.1182/blood.V93.3.804. PMID 9920829. 
• "Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and LIF receptor in human lung. Distribution and regulation of LIF release". American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology 20 (4): 834–41. April 1999. doi:10.1165/ajrcmb.20.4.3429. PMID 10101017. 
• "Functional interaction between Oct-1 and retinoid X receptor". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 274 (27): 19103–8. July 1999. doi:10.1074/jbc.274.27.19103. PMID 10383413. 
• "Differential regulation of leukemia inhibitory factor-stimulated neuronal gene expression by protein phosphatases SHP-1 and SHP-2 through mitogen-activated protein kinase-dependent and -independent pathways". Journal of Neurochemistry 74 (5): 2021–32. May 2000. doi:10.1046/j.1471-4159.2000.0742021.x. PMID 10800945. 
• "Expression of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and LIF receptor (LIF-R) in the human adrenal cortex: implications for steroidogenesis". Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology 162 (1–2): 145–9. April 2000. doi:10.1016/S0303-7207(00)00200-8. PMID 10854707. 
• "Stimulation of leukemia inhibitory factor receptor degradation by extracellular signal-regulated kinase". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 275 (37): 28793–801. September 2000. doi:10.1074/jbc.M003986200. PMID 10858440. 
• "The ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor alpha component induces the secretion of and is required for functional responses to cardiotrophin-like cytokine". The EMBO Journal 20 (7): 1692–703. April 2001. doi:10.1093/emboj/20.7.1692. PMID 11285233. 

External links

• LIF+Receptor+alpha+Subunit at the US National Library of Medicine Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

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