Molecular mechanisms activating the Nrf2-Keap1 pathway of antioxidant gene regulation

Antioxidants and Redox Signaling

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 385-394

  Kobayashi, Makoto ^a   Yamamoto, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; KELCH LIKE ECH ASSOCIATING PROTEIN 1; PROTEASOME; PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NRF2; UBIQUITIN; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL PROTECTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOPLASM; DEFENSE MECHANISM; GENE CONTROL; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UBIQUITINATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIOXIDANTS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NF-E2-RELATED FACTOR 2; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 14044254798     PISSN: 15230864     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ars.2005.7.385     Document Type: Review

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