The kinase suppressor of Ras (KSR) modulates growth factor and Ras signaling by uncoupling Elk-1 phosphorylation from MAP kinase activation

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1717-1727

  Sugimoto, Toshiro ^a   Stewart, Scott ^a   Han, Min ^b   Guan, Kun Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Elk 1; KSR; MAP kinase; Phosphorylation; Ras

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REPRESSION; MAMMAL CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CALCINEURIN; COS CELLS; CYCLOSPORINE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; ETS-DOMAIN PROTEIN ELK-1; ETS-DOMAIN PROTEIN ELK-4; GENES, FOS; GENES, JUN; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; RAS PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032536853     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.6.1717     Document Type: Article

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