Distinct NFAT family proteins are involved in the nuclear NFAT-DNA binding complexes from human thymocyte subsets

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2324-2333

  Amasaki, Yoshiharu ^a   Masuda, Esteban S ^a   Imamura, Ryu ^a   Arai, Ken Ichi ^b   Arai, Naoko ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE;

CELL NUCLEUS; CYCLOSPORINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0032030630     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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