Preassembly and ligand-induced restructuring of the chains of the IFN-γ receptor complex: the roles of Jak kinases, Stat1 and the receptor chains

We previously demonstrated using noninvasive technologies that the interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) receptor complex is preassembled 1. In this report we determined how the receptor complex is preassembled and how the ligand-mediated conformational changes occur. The interaction of Stat1 with IFN-γR1 results in a conformational change localized to IFN-γR1. Jak1 but not Jak2 is required for the two chains of the IFN-γ receptor complex (IFN-γR1 and IFN-γR2) to interact; however, the presence of both Jak1 and Jak2 is required to see any ligand-dependant conformational change. Two IFN-γR2 chains interact through species-specific determinants in their extracellular domains. Finally, these determinants also participate in the interaction of IFN-γR2 with IFN-γR1. These results agree with a detailed model of the IFN-γ receptor that requires the receptor chains to be pre-associated constitutively for the receptor to be active.

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