MEK1 and the extracellular signal-regulated kinases are required for the stimulation of IL-2 gene transcription in T cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1020-1029

  Whitehurst, Charles E ^a   Geppert, Thomas D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM IONOPHORE; INTERLEUKIN 2; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMANS; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-2; IONOMYCIN; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE-PHOSPHATASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TETRADECANOYLPHORBOL ACETATE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030067653     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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