The stimulation of mitogenic signaling pathways by N-POMC peptides

Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology

Volumn 300, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 77-82

  Pepper, David J ^a   Bicknell, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adrenal; AKT; ERK; N POMC; POMC; Receptor tyrosine kinase

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROTEIN KINASE B; RAF PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ADRENAL CORTEX TUMOR; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GAMMA-MSH; HUMANS; MICE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RAF KINASES; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 59649084597     PISSN: 03037207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2008.09.021     Document Type: Article

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