Akt phosphorylation regulates the tumour-suppressor merlin through ubiquitination and degradation

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1199-1207

  Tang, Xiaoling ^a   Jang, Sung Wuk ^a   Wang, Xuerong ^a   Liu, Zhixue ^a   Bahr, Scott M ^b   Sun, Shi Yong ^a   Brat, Daniel ^a   Gutmann, David H ^b   Ye, Keqiang ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERLIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN P70;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL GROWTH; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; UBIQUITINATION;

ANDROSTADIENES; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MUTATION; NEUROFIBROMIN 2; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITORS; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-AKT; SERINE; THREONINE; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 34848921532     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb1641     Document Type: Article

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