The interleukin-6-activated acute-phase response factor is antigenically and functionally related to members of the signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) family

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 3186-3196

  Wegenka, Ursula M ^a   Lütticken, Claudia ^a   Buschmann, Jan ^a   Yuan, Juping ^a,d   Lottspeich, Friedrich ^b   Müller Esterl, Werner ^c   Schindler, Chris ^d   Roeb, Elke ^a   Heinrich, Peter C ^a   Horn, Friedemann ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; DNA BINDING; HEPATOMA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0028274299     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.14.5.3186     Document Type: Article

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