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Upstream stimulatory factors regulate aortic preferentially expressed gene-1 expression in vascular smooth muscle cells.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 14 Dec 2001
Chen Y H, Layne M D, Watanabe M, Yet S F, Perrella M A
Abstract excerpt
The phenotypic modulation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) plays a central role in the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis. Aortic preferentially expressed gene-1 (APEG-1), a VSMC-specific gene, is expressed highly in differentiated but not in dedifferentiated VSMC. Previously, we identified an E-box element in the mouse APEG-1 proximal promoter, which is essential for VSMC reporter activity. In this study, we...
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