Transcription factors of the NFAT family: Regulation and function

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 15, Issue , 1997, Pages 707-747

  Rao, Anjana ^a   Luo, Chun ^a   Hogan, Patrick G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

calcineurin; cytokine gene regulation; immunosuppression; inducible gene transcription; lymphocyte activation; nuclear factor of activated T cells; signal transduction

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; CD28 ANTIGEN; COLECALCIFEROL; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLOSPORIN A; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR FACTOR; ONCOPROTEIN; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN); RETINOIC ACID; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TACROLIMUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CYTOKINE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DNA BINDING; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CALCINEURIN; CALCIUM; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030973579     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.15.1.707     Document Type: Review

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