A Rac GTPase-activating protein, MgcRacGAP, is a nuclear localizing signal-containing nuclear chaperone in the activation of STAT transcription factors

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1796-1813

  Kawashima, Toshiyuki ^a   Bao, Ying Chun ^a   Minoshima, Yukinori ^a   Nomura, Yasushi ^a   Hatori, Tomonori ^a   Hori, Tetsuya ^b   Fukagawa, Tatsuo ^b   Fukada, Toshiyuki ^c,d   Takahashi, Noriko ^a   Nosaka, Tetsuya ^a,e   Inoue, Makoto ^f   Sato, Tomohiro ^a,f   Kukimoto Niino, Mutsuko ^f   Shirouzu, Mikako ^f   Yokoyama, Shigeyuki ^a,f   Kitamura, Toshio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CYTOKINE; KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; MGC RAC GTPASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; RAC1 PROTEIN; STAT PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; MGCRACGAP; MUTANT PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RAC PROTEIN; TETRACYCLINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DRUG EFFECT; GENE DELETION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ALPHA KARYOPHERINS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHICKENS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTANT PROTEINS; NUCLEAR LOCALIZATION SIGNALS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAC GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE DELETION; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TETRACYCLINE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION;

EID: 63049085679     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.01423-08     Document Type: Article

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