MEKKs, GCKs, MLKs, PAKs, TAKs, and Tpls: Upstream regulators of the c-Jun amino-terminal kinases?

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 67-74

  Fanger, Gary R ^a   Gerwins, Pär ^a   Widmann, Christian ^a   Jarpe, Matthew B ^a   Johnson, Gary L ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; GROWTH FACTOR; HORMONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN P21; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; DEVELOPMENTAL GENETICS; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GERMINAL CENTER; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C JUN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR GROWTH;

EID: 0031044561     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(97)80111-6     Document Type: Article

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