MAP kinases as structural adaptors and enzymatic activators in transcription complexes

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 117, Issue 17, 2004, Pages 3715-3723

  Edmunds, John W ^a   Mahadevan, Louis C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hog1 p38; MAP kinase; Transcription complexes

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE III; GAMMA INTERFERON; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; MYC PROTEIN; MYOCYTE ENHANCER FACTOR 2; PROTEIN P53; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR ALPHA; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR GAMMA; RNA POLYMERASE II; STAT1 PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; T CELL FACTOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AP 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELK 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ETS 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1;

DOWN REGULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; EUKARYOTE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; YEAST;

ENZYME ACTIVATION; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCETALES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

CERVUS ELAPHUS; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 4444320809     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.01346     Document Type: Review

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