Activation of the transcription factor ISGF3 by interferon-γ

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 699-703

  Matsumoto, Masahito ^a,d   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a   Harada, Hisashi ^a   Kimura, Tohru ^b   Yokochi, Taeko ^a   Kitagawa, Motoo ^a   Schindler, Chris ^c   Taniguchi, Tadatsugu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Surgeons of Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

IFN ; ISGF3; ISRE; Stat2

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; DNA PRIMERS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYO; FIBROBLASTS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERFERON-ALPHA; INTERFERON-BETA; INTERFERON-STIMULATED GENE FACTOR 3; INTERFERON-STIMULATED GENE FACTOR 3, GAMMA SUBUNIT; MICE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TYROSINE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033065879     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.087     Document Type: Article

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