Kit signaling through PI 3-kinase and Src kinase pathways: An essential role for Rac1 and JNK activation in mast cell proliferation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 6250-6262

  Timokhina, Inna ^a,b   Kissel, Holger ^a   Stella, Greg ^a,b   Besmer, Peter ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

JNK; Kit; Phosphatidylinositol 3' kinase; Rac1; Src kinase

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GAMMA IRRADIATION; MAST CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

1-PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3-KINASE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DIVISION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MAST CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC-FAMILY KINASES; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032476674     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.21.6250     Document Type: Article

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