N-domain-dependent nonphosphorylated STAT4 dimers required for cytokine-driven activation

Nature Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 208-215

  Ota, Naruhisa ^a   Brett, Tom J ^a   Murphy, Theresa L ^a   Fremont, Daved H ^a   Murphy, Kenneth M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE RECEPTOR; DIMER; STAT PROTEIN; STAT4 PROTEIN;

ACCELERATION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; DIMERIZATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STAT4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 1142287411     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1032     Document Type: Article

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