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Review

Evolution of the JAK-STAT pathway

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Article: e22756 | Published online: 01 Jan 2013
 

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.

Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest

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