mTOR-Dependent Regulation of Ribosomal Gene Transcription Requires S6K1 and Is Mediated by Phosphorylation of the Carboxy-Terminal Activation Domain of the Nucleolar Transcription Factor UBF

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 8862-8877

  Hannan, Katherine M ^a   Brandenburger, Yves ^b   Jenkins, Anna ^b   Sharkey, Kerith ^b   Cavanaugh, Alice ^d   Rothblum, Lawrence ^d   Moss, Tom ^e   Poortinga, Gretchen ^a   McArthur, Grant A ^a   Pearson, Richard B ^a,c   Hannan, Ross D ^b,c  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b BAKER IDI HEART AND DIABETES INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d Ge inger Clinic   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; RAPAMYCIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; RIBOSOME DNA; S6 KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SL 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR UBF; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL GROWTH; CELL STRAIN 3T3; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; FIBROBLAST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; RIBOSOME; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; POL1 TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION COMPLEX PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIROLIMUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0242637318     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.23.8862-8877.2003     Document Type: Article

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