Learning of it inspires the protagonist of the series, President Josiah Bartlet, to consider launching an Apollo program to cure cancer.
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During "100,000 Airplanes", a third season episode of The West Wing, sphingosine kinase is fictitiously described as "the enzyme believed to control all signal pathways to cancer growth."
kinase | tyrosine kinase | Anaplastic lymphoma kinase | Janus kinase 1 | AMP-activated protein kinase | protein kinase | Lyn (Src family Kinase) | Creatine kinase | Bruton's tyrosine kinase | Aurora kinase | Aurora B kinase | anaplastic lymphoma kinase | Tyrosine kinase | Src family kinase | Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase | Leukocyte receptor tyrosine kinase | Kinase | Janus kinase | Fructosamine-3-kinase | Cyclin-dependent kinase | Cell division cycle 7-related protein kinase | AXL receptor tyrosine kinase |