Regulation of the MEF2 family of transcription factors by p38

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 21-30

  Zhao, Ming ^a   New, Liguo ^a   Kravchenko, Vladimir V ^a   Kato, Yutaka ^a   Gram, Hermann ^b   Di Padova, Franco ^b   Olson, Eric N ^c   Ulevitch, Richard J ^a   Han, Jiahuai ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REPORTER GENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0032953307     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.1.21     Document Type: Article

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