Slow accumulation of active mitogen-activated protein kinase during thymocyte differentiation regulates the temporal pattern of transcription factor gene expression

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 603-610

  Shao, Hui ^a   Wilkinson, Beverley ^a   Lee, Brian ^a   Han, Pei Chen ^a   Kaye, Jonathan ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURVIVAL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; KINETICS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, STEROID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

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