Emerging roles of nuclear protein phosphatases

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 234-244

  Moorhead, Greg B G ^a   Trinkle Mulcahy, Laura ^b   Ulke Lemée, Annegret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; CALCINEURIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 1; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2A; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 2C; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 4; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 5; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 6; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE 7; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE; RNA POLYMERASE II; SMAD PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA DAMAGE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; RNA PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA DAMAGE; HUMANS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASES; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 33847199801     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2126     Document Type: Review

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