ERK and cell death: ERK location and T cell selection

FEBS Journal

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 30-38

  Teixeiro, Emma ^a   Daniels, Mark A ^a  

^a Center for Cellular and Molecular Immunology   (United States)

Author keywords

ERK; MAPK; T cell selection; TCR signaling; Thymocyte

Indexed keywords

BIM PROTEIN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE FACTOR 1; GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR BOUND PROTEIN 2; HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; LAT PROTEIN; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION ASSOCIATED ANTIGEN 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NUR77; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; PHOSPHOLIPASE C GAMMA1; PROTEIN BAK; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN KINASE C THETA; PROTEIN KINASE ZAP 70; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RAF PROTEIN; RAS PROTEIN; REGULATOR PROTEIN; SOS PROTEIN; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ELK 4; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RELATED APOPTOSIS INDUCING LIGAND;

BINDING AFFINITY; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL SELECTION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CLONAL ANERGY; CYTOSOL; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME BINDING; ENZYME DEGRADATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME MECHANISM; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; ENZYME REGULATION; ENZYME RELEASE; ENZYME REPRESSION; EPITHELIUM; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GOLGI COMPLEX; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA TRANSLATION; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; HUMANS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 4, GROUP A, MEMBER 1; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 73649114888     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2009.07368.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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