Regulation of IL-15 Secretion via the Leader Peptide of Two IL-15 Isoforms

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 255-262

  Onu, Adrian ^a,b   Pohl, Thomas ^a   Krause, Hans ^a   Bulfone Paus, Silvia ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CANTACUZINO INSTITUTE   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15; MESSENGER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SECRETION;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-15; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SORTING SIGNALS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0030639208     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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