Phosphorylation of the cap-binding protein eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E by protein kinase Mnk1 in vivo

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1871-1880

  Waskiewicz, Andrew Jan ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey C ^a   Penn, Bennett ^a,b   Mahalingam, Malathy ^a   Kimball, Scot R ^c   Cooper, Jonathan A ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0032981328     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.3.1871     Document Type: Article

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