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NFAT Signaling: Choreographing the Social Lives of Cells

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Calcium signaling activates the phosphatase calcineurin and induces movement of NFATc proteins into the nucleus, where they cooperate with other proteins to form complexes on DNA.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2002-04-19 and is currently open access. It has received 1335 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: NFATC Transcription Factors & NFAT.

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A mutation in Orai1 causes immune deficiency by abrogating CRAC channel function

TL;DR: It is proposed that Orai1 is an essential component or regulator of the CRAC channel complex, which contains four putative transmembrane segments and is based on a novel protein that was identified in SCID patients.
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STIM Is a Ca2+ Sensor Essential for Ca2+-Store-Depletion-Triggered Ca2+ Influx

TL;DR: This study suggests that STIM proteins function as Ca(2+) store sensors in the signaling pathway connecting Ca(1+)-store-depletion-mediated Ca( 2+) influx, and suggests that this mutant failed to respond to store depletion.
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Transcriptional regulation by calcium, calcineurin, and NFAT

TL;DR: The NFAT family of transcription factors encompasses five proteins evolutionarily related to the Rel/NF B family, and it is clear that NFAT activates transcription of a large number of genes during an effective immune response.
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Calcineurin is a common target of cyclophilin-cyclosporin A and FKBP-FK506 complexes

TL;DR: The results suggest that calcineurin is involved in a common step associated with T cell receptor and IgE receptor signaling pathways and that cyclophilin and FKBP mediate the actions of CsA and Fk506 by forming drug-dependent complexes with and altering the activity of calcineURin-calmodulin.
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Vascular-specific growth factors and blood vessel formation

TL;DR: New findings in newly discovered vascular growth factors demand re-evaluation of therapeutic efforts aimed at regulating blood vessel growth in ischaemia, cancer and other pathological settings.
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A Calcineurin-Dependent Transcriptional Pathway for Cardiac Hypertrophy

TL;DR: It is shown that cardiac hypertrophy is induced by the calcium-dependent phosphatase calcineurin, which dephosphorylates the transcription factor NF-AT3, enabling it to translocate to the nucleus.
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Calcium - a life and death signal

TL;DR: This research investigates how the calcium ion regulates cell birth, life and death, and how it regulates so many different cellular processes in the human body.
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Identification of calcineurin as a key signalling enzyme in T-lymphocyte activation

TL;DR: It is reported here that overexpression of calcineurin in Jurkat cells renders them more resistant to the effects of CsA and FK506 and augments both NFAT- and NFIL2A-dependent transcription.
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