Re-defining ERM function in lymphocyte activation and migration

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 256, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-79

  Parameswaran, Neetha ^a   Gupta, Neetu ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Ezrin Radixin Moesin; Lymphocytes; Microclusters; Phosphorylation; Signaling

Indexed keywords

EZRIN; MOESIN; RADIXIN; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LISTERIOSIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SHIGELLOSIS; STELLATE CELL; STOMACH CANCER; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

CYTOSKELETON; EZRIN-RADIXIN-MOESIN; LYMPHOCYTES; MICROCLUSTERS; PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNALING;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEOPLASMS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84885361900     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: 1600065X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12104     Document Type: Article

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