Evolution of the JAK-STAT pathway.

ABSTRACT: The JAK-STAT pathway represents a finely tuned orchestra capable of rapidly facilitating an exquisite symphony of responses from a complex array of extracellular signals. This review explores the evolution of the JAK-STAT pathway: the origins of the individual domains from which it is constructed, the formation of individual components from these basic building blocks, the assembly of the components into a functional pathway, and the subsequent reiteration of this basic template to fulfill a variety of roles downstream of cytokine receptors.

SUBMITTER: Liongue C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3670263 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature