Activation of the transcription factor MEF2C by the MAP kinase p38 in inflammation

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6622, 1997, Pages 296-299

  Han, J ^a   Jiang, Y ^a   Li, Z ^a   Kravchenko, V V ^a   Ulevitch, R J ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; ONCOPROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; MONOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION;

BINDING SITES; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL LINE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, JUN; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LUCIFERASES; MADS DOMAIN PROTEINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MONOCYTES; MYOGENIC REGULATORY FACTORS; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0030894683     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386296a0     Document Type: Article

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