Stress kinase MKK7: Savior of cell cycle arrest and cellular senescence

Cell Cycle

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 577-579

  Wada, Teiji ^a,b   Penninger, Josef M ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; c Jun; CDC2; G2 M; JNK; MKK4; MKK7; Senescence; Stress

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 4; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE 7; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 1; MAP2K7 PROTEIN, MOUSE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL TRANSFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME SUBSTRATE COMPLEX; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SENESCENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYO; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LIVER; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CDC2 PROTEIN KINASE; CELL AGING; CELL CYCLE; EMBRYO; FIBROBLASTS; JNK MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; LIVER; MAP KINASE KINASE 7; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 4644254321     PISSN: 15384101     EISSN: 15514005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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