MAP kinase links the transcription factor Microphthalmia to c-Kit signalling in melanocytes

Nature

Volumn 391, Issue 6664, 1998, Pages 298-301

  Hemesath, Timothy J ^a   Price, E Roydon ^a   Takemoto, Clifford ^a   Badalian, Tina ^a   Fisher, David E ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SERINE; STEEL FACTOR; STEM CELL FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MELANOCYTE; MICROPHTHALMIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; MAP KINASE KINASE KINASE 1; MELANOCYTES; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; SERINE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032518262     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/34681     Document Type: Article

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