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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 277, Issue 10, 8091-8098, March 8, 2002

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Specificity of Interleukin-2 Receptor  Chain Superfamily Cytokines Is Mediated by Insulin Receptor Substrate-dependent Pathway^*

Hui Xiao, Tinggui Yin^§, Xin-Yuan Wang^¶, Tohru Uchida, Jin Chung, Morris F. White, and Yu-Chung Yang^**

From the  Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Center, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, the  Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, ^§ Eli Lilly, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana 46285, and ^¶ Pharmacia-Upjohn, Inc., Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007

Interleukins 9 (IL-9) and 4 are cytokines within the IL-2 receptor  chain (IL-2R) superfamily that possess similar and unique biological functions. The signaling mechanisms, which may determine cytokine specificity and redundancy, are not well understood. IRS proteins are tyrosine-phosphorylated following IL-9 and IL-4 stimulation, a process in part mediated by JAK tyrosine kinases (Yin, T. G., Keller, S. R., Quelle, F. W., Witthuhn, B. A., Tsang, M. L., Lienhard, G. E., Ihle, J. N., and Yang, Y. C. (1995) J. Biol. Chem. 270, 20497-20502). In the present study, we used 32D cells stably transfected with insulin receptor (32D^IR), which do not express any IRS proteins, as a model system to study the requirement of different structural domains of IRS proteins in IL-9- and IL-4-mediated functions. Overexpression of IRS-1 and IRS-2, but not IRS-4, induced proliferation of 32D^IR cells in response to IL-9. The pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of IRS proteins is required for IRS-mediated proliferation stimulated by IL-9. The phosphotyrosine binding and Shc and IRS-1 NPXY binding domains are interchangeable for IRS to transduce the proliferative effect of IL-4. Therefore, the PH domain plays different roles in coupling IRS proteins to activated IL-9 and IL-4 receptors. The role of IRS proteins in determining cytokine specificity was corroborated by their ability to interact with different downstream signaling molecules. Although phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase (PI3K) and Grb-2 interact with tyrosine-phosphorylated IRS proteins, Shp-2 only binds to IRS proteins following IL-4, but not IL-9, stimulation. Although PI3K activity is necessary for the IRS-1/2-mediated proliferative effect of IL-9 and IL-4, Akt activation is only required for cell proliferation induced by IL-4, but not IL-9. These data suggest that IRS-dependent signaling pathways work by recruiting different signaling molecules to determine specificity of IL-2R superfamily cytokines.

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