The Ca2+-calcineurin-NFAT signalling pathway

New Comprehensive Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue , 2007, Pages 365-401

  Feske, Stefan ^a   Rao, Anjana ^a   Hogan, Patrick G ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anergy; AP 1 (activator protein 1); Calcineurin; Calcium; CK1 (casein kinase 1); CRAC (calcium release activated calcium) channel; Cyclosporin A, DYRK (Dual Specificity Tyrosine Phosphorylation Regulated Kinase); FK506; FOXP3 (forkhead box P3); IL 2 (interleukin 2); NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T cells); Orai1; PVIVIT; SCID (severe combined immunodeficiency); SOCE (store operated calcium entry); STIM (stromal interaction molecule); TRP (transient receptor potential) channel

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547111587     PISSN: 01677306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7306(06)41014-0     Document Type: Review

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