NIK is a new Ste20-related kinase that binds NCK and MEKK1 and activates the SAPK/JNK cascade via a conserved regulatory domain

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1279-1290

  Su, Yi Chi ^a   Han, Jiahuai ^b   Xu, Shuichan ^c   Cobb, Melanie ^c   Skolnik, Edward Y ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

MEKK1; Nck interacting kinase; Ste20 related kinase; Stress activated protein kinase

Indexed keywords

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRESS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0030907935     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.6.1279     Document Type: Article

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