Homodimerization of nemo-like kinase is essential for activation and nuclear localization

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 266-277

  Ishitani, Shizuka ^a,b   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Matsumoto, Kunihiro ^c   Ishitani, Tohru ^a,c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; NEMO LIKE KINASE; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PROTEIN KINASE; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOPHOSPHORYLATION; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEURITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYSTEINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HEK293 CELLS; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEURITES; PC12 CELLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RATS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; THREONINE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 78751499788     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: 19394586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E10-07-0605     Document Type: Article

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