Activation of the yeast SSK2 MAP kinase kinase kinase by the SSK1 two-component response regulator

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1385-1394

  Posas, Francesc ^a   Saito, Haruo ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

MAP kinase; Phosphorylation; Signal transduction; Stress response; Two component sensors

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME BINDING; OSMOLARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; YEAST CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THREONINE;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032473427     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.5.1385     Document Type: Article

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