Activation and degradation of the transcription factor C/EBP during long-term facilitation in Aplysia

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 2415-2423

  Yamamoto, Naoki ^a,b   Hegde, Ashok N ^a   Chain, Daniel G ^a   Schwartz, James H ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aplysia CCAAT enhancer binding protein; Longterm facilitation; Mitogen activated protein kinase; Phosphorylation; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C; SEROTONIN; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

APLYSIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY RESPONSE GENE; FACILITATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STABILITY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APLYSIA; CCAAT-ENHANCER-BINDING PROTEINS; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DNA; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ESCAPE REACTION; GANGLIA, INVERTEBRATE; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MEMORY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; SEROTONIN; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UBIQUITINS;

APLYSIA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032732832     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-4159.1999.0732415.x     Document Type: Article

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