Mutations associated with retinopathies alter mitogen-activated protein kinase-induced phosphorylation of neural retina leucine-zipper

Molecular Vision

Volumn 13, Issue , 2007, Pages 1114-1120

  Swain, Prabodha ^a   Kumar, Sandeep ^a   Patel, Dharmesh ^a   Richong, Sushmita ^a   Oberoi, Pranav ^a   Ghosh, Madhumita ^a   Swaroop, Anand ^b  

^a National Brain Research Center   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RHODOPSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IN VITRO STUDY; ISOTOPE LABELING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RETINA ROD; RETINOPATHY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENES, DOMINANT; LEUCINE ZIPPERS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MUTATION; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; RHODOPSIN; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS); TRANSFECTION;

EID: 34447555859     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10900535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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