Mice Deficient for the Ets Transcription Factor Elk-1 Show Normal Immune Responses and Mildly Impaired Neuronal Gene Activation

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 294-305

  Cesari, Francesca ^a   Brecht, Stephan ^c   Vintersten, Kristina ^d,e   Vuong, Lam Giang ^a   Hofmann, Matthias ^a,f   Klingel, Karin ^b   Schnorr, Jens Jörg ^b,g   Arsenian, Sergei ^a   Schild, Hansjörg ^a   Herdegen, Thomas ^c   Wiebel, Franziska F ^a   Nordheim, Alfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^d EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^e MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; KAINIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN C FOS; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELK 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXSACKIE VIRUS B3; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE ACTIVITY; HISTOLOGY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; ETS-DOMAIN PROTEIN ELK-1; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS; COXSACKIEVIRUS;

EID: 10744231032     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.1.294-305.2004     Document Type: Article

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