What happens after the receptor is engaged, and who showed it

Published 24 October 2026 · REVIVE LAB UAE Research Desk · 5 min read
The growth hormone receptor is a single-pass membrane protein without intrinsic kinase activity. Argetsinger, Carter-Su and colleagues reported in Cell in 1993 that hormone binding activates the receptor-associated tyrosine kinase JAK2, which phosphorylates the receptor and recruits STAT proteins. STAT5, particularly STAT5b, is the principal transcription factor, and it drives expression of IGF-1 and other target genes. Mutations in STAT5b in humans produce growth hormone insensitivity.

The kinase

JAK2 associates with the membrane-proximal region of each receptor chain. When the hormone brings the two chains into the active arrangement, the two kinases phosphorylate each other and then tyrosines on the receptor tails. This was among the first demonstrations of how a cytokine receptor without its own catalytic domain signals.

The same mechanism applies across the class I cytokine receptor family.

The transcription factor

Phosphorylated receptor tyrosines dock STAT5, which JAK2 phosphorylates in turn. STAT5 dimerises, enters the nucleus and binds target promoters. The IGF-1 gene is one of them, which connects receptor activation to the somatomedin story.

Other branches — MAP kinase, PI3 kinase — are also engaged, but STAT5b accounts for the growth phenotype.

Human evidence

Individuals with inactivating STAT5b mutations have severe growth failure with normal or high growth hormone and low IGF-1, demonstrating in humans that this branch carries the growth signal. The pathway is therefore established both biochemically and genetically.

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The kinase?

JAK2 associates with the membrane-proximal region of each receptor chain. When the hormone brings the two chains into the active arrangement, the two kinases phosphorylate each other and then tyrosines on the receptor tails. This was among the first demonstrations of how a cytokine receptor without its own catalytic domain signals.

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