Design of conditionally active STATs: Insights into STAT activation and gene regulatory function

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2913-2920

  Milocco, Lawrence H ^a   Haslam, Jennifer A ^a   Rosen, Jonathan ^a   Seidel, H Martin ^a  

^a LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GROWTH FACTOR; STAT1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CELL STRAIN HEPG2; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032956197     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.4.2913     Document Type: Article

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