ECSIT is an evolutionarily conserved intermediate in the Toll/IL-1 signal transduction pathway

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2059-2071

  Kopp, Elizabeth ^a   Medzhitov, Ruslan ^a   Carothers, James ^a   Xiao, Changchun ^a   Douglas, Iris ^a   Janeway, Charles A ^a   Ghosh, Sankar ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Immune response; NF B; Signal transduction pathway; Signaling intermediate; Toll pathway

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN ECSIT; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; PROTEIN TOLL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033567388     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.16.2059     Document Type: Article

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