Carboxyl-terminal 15-amino acid sequence of NFATx1 is possibly created by tissue-specific splicing and is essential for transactivation activity in T cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 3455-3463

  Imamura, Ryu ^a   Masuda, Esteban S ^a   Naito, Yoshiyuki ^a   Imai, Shin Ichiro ^b   Fujino, Tadahiro ^b   Takano, Toshiya ^b   Arai, Ken Ichi ^c   Arai, Naoko ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEUKOCYTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; TRANSACTIVATION;

EID: 0032193219     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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