Sentences with phrase «erk signaling cascade»

ERK is the last step in the RAS - RAF - MEK - ERK signaling cascade.

Our laboratory has spent many years delineating the regulation of translation initiation by the mTORC1 and ERK signaling cascades during LTP, LTD, and memory formation in the hippocampus.

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When mutated, BRAF, an enzyme that acts in a signaling cascade known as the MAPK / ERK pathway, becomes overactive and leads to increased cellular growth, a hallmark of cancer.

They call this form of activation «non-ligand-dependent,» and in a complex series of biochemical and animal experiments, traced the pathway through which FER's binding to MET inside the cell sets off a cascade of cell - signaling events, all directly connected in prior research with cancer initiation, including RAC1 / PAK1 and SHP2 - ERK.

[42 - 46] KIT, a type III transmembrane receptor tyrosine kinase that sits upstream of NRAS and BRAF, feeds into several signaling pathways, including both the RAS / RAF / MEK / ERK cascade and the PI3K / Akt / mTOR pathway.

The notion that a Nanog positive, ICM - like population of high probability self - renewing cells is a developmental ground state is supported by the expansion of this state in the presence of a blockade on the major signalling pathways known to promote ES cell differentiation, the MAP kinase / ERK cascade and GSK3β [42], [50].