Activation of STAT4 by IL-12 and IFN-α: Evidence for the Involvement of Ligand-Induced Tyrosine and Serine Phosphorylation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 157, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4781-4789

  Cho, Sarah S ^a   Bacon, Chris M ^a,b   Sudarshan, Chitra ^a   Rees, Robert C ^b,e   Finbloom, David ^c   Pine, Richard ^d   O'Shea, John J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 12; LIGAND; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINANT INTERFERON; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE; STAT4 PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; COS CELLS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE I, RECOMBINANT; INTERLEUKIN-12; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIGANDS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SERINE; STAT4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TYROSINE;

EID: 0030469719     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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