Live cell imaging reveals continuous STAT6 nuclear trafficking

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 185, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-70

  Chen, Hui Chen ^a   Reich, Nancy C ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KARYOPHERIN ALPHA; KARYOPHERIN BETA; STAT6 PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; STAT6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TYROSINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; BLEACHING; CELL TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA BINDING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRAIN COS1; CERCOPITHECUS; HELA CELL; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; TIME;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CELL NUCLEUS; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTOBLEACHING; STAT6 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE;

EID: 77956224827     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903323     Document Type: Article

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