Mechanisms of transactivation by nuclear factor of activated T cells-1

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-147

  Luo, Chun ^b   Burgeon, Emmanuel ^b   Rao, Anjana ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR FACTOR;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

BINDING SITES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030039721     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.1.141     Document Type: Article

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