Suppression of signalling through transcription factor NF-AT by interactions between calcineurin and Bcl-2

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6626, 1997, Pages 728-731

  Shibasaki, Futoshi ^a   Kondo, Eisaku ^b   Akagi, Tadaatsu ^b   McKeon, Frank ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0030901628     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386728a0     Document Type: Article

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