Calcineurin-dependent nuclear translocation of a murine transcription factor NFATx: Molecular cloning and functional characterization

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 157-170

  Liu, Jie ^a   Koyano Nakagawa, Naoko ^a   Amasaki, Yoshiharu ^b   Saito Ohara, Fumiko ^c   Ikeuchi, T ^c   Imai, Shin Ichiro ^d   Takano, Toshiya ^d   Arai, Naoko ^b   Yokota, Takashi ^a   Arai, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCINEURIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REGULATOR GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 17044450797     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.8.1.157     Document Type: Article

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