The TOR signaling cascade regulates gene expression in response to nutrients

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3271-3279

  Cardenas, Maria E ^a   Cutler, N Shane ^a   Lorenz, Michael C ^a   Di Como, Charles J ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Rapamycin; Signal transduction; TOR kinase

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXIMIDE; GENE PRODUCT; MESSENGER RNA; NITROGEN; PROTEIN KINASE; RAPAMYCIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CULTURE MEDIA; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NITROGEN; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0033573016     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.24.3271     Document Type: Article

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