Transcriptional repressor ERF is a Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase target that regulates cellular proliferation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 4121-4133

  Le Gallic, Lionel ^a   Sgouras, Dionyssios ^b,d   Beal Jr , Gregory ^b   Mavrothalassitis, George ^a,c,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^d Diagnostic Genetic Center   (Greece)

^e INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DNA CONTENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0033050069     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.6.4121     Document Type: Article

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