Distinct requirements for the naturally occurring splice forms Stat4α and Stat4β in IL-12 responses

EMBO Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 4237-4248

  Hoey, Timothy ^a   Zhang, Shangming ^b,c   Schmidt, Nathan ^b,c   Yu, Qing ^b,c   Ramchandani, Shyam ^a   Xu, Xiang ^a   Naeger, Lisa K ^a   Sun, Ya Lin ^a   Kaplan, Mark H ^b,c  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WALTHER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

IL 12; Stat4; T helper cells; Transcription

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 12; ISOPROTEIN; STAT4 ALPHA PROTEIN; STAT4 BETA PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MALE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; INTERLEUKIN-12; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TH1 CELLS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0042466572     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/cdg393     Document Type: Article

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