Signal Transduction through MAP Kinase Cascades

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The chapter introduces the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase (MAPK) module. The identification of MAP kinase pathways exemplifies the power of combining biochemical and genetic approaches to molecular problems. The chapter discusses the mammalian MAPK pathways—ERKl/2 and MKKl/2 pathways—and stress-activated protein kinase pathways. The regulation of MAPK pathways by protein phosphatases is discussed in the chapter describing in detail about dual specificity phosphatases, serinenhreonine phosphatases, and protein tyrosine phosphatases. The chapter explores the cellular substrates of MAP kinases, wherein it discusses about protein kinase substrates for MAPKS, nuclear transcription factors, signaling components, and cytoskeletal proteins. Responses to MAPK pathways, regulation of cell growth and transformation, and regulation of cell differentiation and development have also been summarized in the chapter. The chapter describes the yeast MAPK pathways of saccharomyces cerevisiae (Budding Yeast) and Schizosaccharomyces pombe (Fission Yeast). The chapter provides the description of the intracellular targeting and spatial regulation of MAPK pathway components, signaling complexes, and the nuclear translocation of MAPK and MKK. Eukaryotic MAPK cascades provide excellent examples of signal transduction mechanisms that embody key principles common to many, if not all, signaling pathways. Many fundamental questions remain for future studies to investigate the mechanisms by which these pathways are regulated as well as the cellular responses that they control.

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