Mitogen-activated protein kinase: Conservation of a three-kinase module from yeast to human

Physiological Reviews

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 143-180

  Widmann, Christian ^a,b   Gibson, Spencer ^a   Jarpe, Matthew B ^a,c   Johnson, Gary L ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c BIOGEN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GROWTH REGULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032928614     PISSN: 00319333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physrev.1999.79.1.143     Document Type: Review

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