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A pathway map of prolactin signaling

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Abbreviations

PRL:

Prolactin

PRLR:

Prolactin receptor

PL:

Placental lactogen

GH:

Growth hormone

JAK2:

Janus kinase 2

STAT1:

Signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 91 kDa

MAPK:

Mitogen activated protein kinase

PI3-Kinase:

Phosphoinositide 3-kinase

AKT1:

v-akt murine thymoma viral oncogene homolog 1

RAC1:

ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1

IRS1:

Insulin receptor substrate 1

IRS2:

Insulin receptor substrate 2

MTOR:

Mammalian target of rapamycin

GSK3B:

glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta

PAK1:

p21 protein (Cdc42/Rac)-activated kinase 1

BioPAX:

Biological PAthway eXchange

PSI-MI:

Proteomics Standards Initiative for Molecular Interaction

SBML:

Systems Biology Markup Language

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Acknowledgments

We thank the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India for research support to the Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore. Aneesha Radhakrishnan and Shyam Mohan Palapetta are recipients of Senior Research Fellowship from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India. Deepthi Telikicherla is a recipient of Senior Research Fellowship from Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Government of India. P. P. Mathur thanks the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India and Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India for financial support (Project Nos.: BT/BI/03/015/2002 and DIT/R&D/BIO/15(9)/2007). Dattatraya V. Desai and Urmila Kulkarni-Kale gratefully acknowledge the facilities of the Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune and the ‘Centre of Excellence’ grant by the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India as well as the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Government of India. H. C Harsha is a Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Early Career Fellow. Dr. Carrie Shemanko is the “pathway authority” of this manuscript and has reviewed the molecular interactions.

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  1. Institute of Bioinformatics, International Tech Park, Bangalore, 560 066, India

    Aneesha Radhakrishnan, Rajesh Raju, Tejaswini Subbannayya, Joji Kurian Thomas, Renu Goel, Deepthi Telikicherla, Shyam Mohan Palapetta, H. C. Harsha, T. S. Keshava Prasad & Aditi Chatterjee

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, 605014, India

    Aneesha Radhakrishnan & Premendu Prakash Mathur

  3. Department of Biotechnology, Kuvempu University, Shankaraghatta, 577 451, India

    Rajesh Raju, Renu Goel, Deepthi Telikicherla & B. Abdul Rahiman

  4. Bioinformatics Centre, University of Pune, Ganeshkhind Road, Pune, 411 007, India

    Nirvana Tuladhar, Desai Dattatraya Venkatesh & Kulkarni-Kale Urmila

  5. School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kollam, 690 525, India

    Tejaswini Subbannayya, Joji Kurian Thomas & T. S. Keshava Prasad

  6. Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, 605 014, India

    Shyam Mohan Palapetta, Premendu Prakash Mathur & T. S. Keshava Prasad

  7. Manipal University, Madhav Nagar, Manipal, Karnataka, 576 104, India

    T. S. Keshava Prasad

  8. McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21205, MD, USA

    Akhilesh Pandey

  9. Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21205, MD, USA

    Akhilesh Pandey

  10. Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21205, MD, USA

    Akhilesh Pandey

  11. Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, 21205, MD, USA

    Akhilesh Pandey

  12. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Carrie Shemanko

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Radhakrishnan, A., Raju, R., Tuladhar, N. et al. A pathway map of prolactin signaling. J. Cell Commun. Signal. 6, 169–173 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12079-012-0168-0

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