Cross-cascade activation of ERKs and ternary complex factors by Rho family proteins

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 6426-6438

  Frost, Jeffrey A ^a   Steen, Helge ^b,c   Shapiro, Paul ^d   Lewis, Tim ^d   Ahn, Natalie ^d,e   Shaw, Peter E ^b,f   Cobb, Melanie H ^a  

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

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cross cascade activation; ERK; Rho family proteins; SRE; TCF function

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CDC42 GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ETS-DOMAIN PROTEIN ELK-1; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RAF; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030830220     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.21.6426     Document Type: Article

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