Direct and indirect interactions between calcineurin-NFAT and MEK1-extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 signaling pathways regulate cardiac gene expression and cellular growth

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 865-878

  Sanna, Bastiano ^a   Bueno, Orlando F ^a   Dai, Yan Shan ^a   Wilkins, Benjamin J ^a   Molkentin, Jeffery D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; DNA; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; FIBROBLAST; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; TRANSACTIVATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CALCINEURIN; CARDIOMYOPATHY, HYPERTROPHIC; CELL ENLARGEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; MAP KINASE KINASE 1; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; NFATC TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 12844271214     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.25.3.865-878.2005     Document Type: Article

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