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SUBMITTER: Tripathi P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3419974 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tripathi Parul P Sahoo Naresh N Ullah Ubaid U Kallionpää Henna H Suneja Amita A Lahesmaa Riitta R Rao Kanury V S KV
Immunology and cell biology 20111011 7
We demonstrate that the mitogen-activated protein kinases extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK)-1 and ERK-2 have a central role in mediating T-cell receptor-dependent induction of IL4 expression in human CD4(+) T cells. Significantly, this involved a novel mechanism wherein receptor cross-linking induced activated ERK to physically associate with a promoter element on the IL4 gene. The proximally localized ERK then facilitated recruitment of the key transcription factors necessary for init ...[more]