Chapter 1 The Physiological Role of Lysyl tRNA Synthetase in the Immune System

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 103, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-27

  Nechushtan, Hovav ^a   Kim, Sunghoon ^b   Kay, Gillian ^c   Razin, Ehud ^c  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ap4A; Immune system; Lysyl tRNA synthetase; MITF; Noncanonical protein roles; USF2

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERFERON; AUTOANTIBODY; DINUCLEOTIDE; ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; LYSINE; LYSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; MESSENGER RNA; MICROPHTHALMIA ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADENYLATION; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL SURVIVAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SHARING; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LYSINE-TRNA LIGASE; MICROPHTHALMIA-ASSOCIATED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROTEIN BINDING; UPSTREAM STIMULATORY FACTORS;

EID: 69949183262     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: 15578445     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2776(09)03001-6     Document Type: Review

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