Unphosphorylated STATs go nuclear

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 455-460

  Brown, Stephen ^a   Zeidler, Martin P ^b  

^a Faculty of Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1; JANUS KINASE; PROTEIN INHIBITOR OF ACTIVATED STAT; STAT PROTEIN; STAT1 PROTEIN; STAT2 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN;

BINDING SITE; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME 22; DNA STRUCTURE; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOLID TUMOR; STEM CELL; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VERTEBRATE; WORM;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 56049119340     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gde.2008.09.002     Document Type: Review

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