Gamma interferon signaling: Insights to development of interferon mimetics - Review

Cellular and Molecular Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-76

  Johnson, H M ^a   Ahmed, C M I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokine signaling; Nuclear translocation; Smallpox therapeutics; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; GAMMA INTERFERON [95-132]; GAMMA INTERFERON [95-134]; GAMMA INTERFERON DERIVATIVE; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR 1; GAMMA INTERFERON RECEPTOR [253-287]; JANUS KINASE 1; JANUS KINASE 2; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; STAT 1 ALPHA PROTEIN; STAT1 PROTEIN; TYROSINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COVALENT BOND; DRUG DESIGN; ENDOCYTOSIS; GENE ACTIVATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; INTERNALIZATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; INTERFERON-STIMULATED GENE FACTOR 3; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTORS, INTERFERON; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 33745263220     PISSN: 01455680     EISSN: 1165158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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