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Calcineurin-GATA-6 pathway is involved in smooth muscle-specific transcription.
The Journal of cell biology - 18 Mar 2002
Wada Hiromichi, Hasegawa Koji, Morimoto Tatsuya, Kakita Tsuyoshi, Yanazume Tetsuhiko, Abe Mitsuru, Sasayama Shigetake
Abstract excerpt
Intracellular calcium is one of the important signals that initiates the myogenic program. The calcium-activated phosphatase calcineurin is necessary for the nuclear import of the nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT) family members, which interact with zinc finger GATA transcription factors. Whereas GATA-6 plays a role in the maintenance of the differentiated phenotype in vascular smooth muscle cells...
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