Mnk2 and Mnk1 are essential for constitutive and inducible phosphorylation of eukaryotic initiation factor 4E but not for cell growth or development

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 6539-6549

  Ueda, Takeshi ^a   Watanabe Fukunaga, Rie ^a,c   Fukuyama, Hidehiro ^a,b   Nagata, Shigekazu ^a,b,c   Fukunaga, Rikiro ^a,b,c  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E; INSULIN; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN MNK1; PROTEIN MNK2; SERINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LIVER; MNK1 GENE; MNK2 GENE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CELL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; EMBRYO; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-4E; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, REPORTER; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; LIVER; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, GENETIC; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; P38 MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SERINE; SPLEEN; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSFECTION;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 3242719457     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.24.15.6539-6549.2004     Document Type: Article

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